What is the range over there like?
Was considering doing the Mega with the prospect of my GF joining me afterwards for a week of relaxed riding once I had got the "must be at the bottom of the biggest hill very fast" thing out of my system.
So is it suitable? Comments from previous bike trips
Morzine - We are never going there again it's full of (many expletives deleted) riding big bikes down the greens! Then we got lost on some XC.....
Les Arcs Enjoyed the variety disliked the lack of some structure. She walked down quite a few trails simply because we didn't know what was coming.
In the Uk she is happy on Reds, liked the challenge of Kirrochtree black but not every day.
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I'd suggest your girlfriend may not enjoy ADH too much either. It is steeper and rockier than Morzine generally, and there is far less XC. The total riding area is smaller than PDS, but you can travel over to Les Deux Alpes (a short drive) for the day, and you are covered on the same lift pass.
Mega week is super busy at ADH, and there will be a lot of people on big bikes, most practicing the course, many potentially overtaking without full consideration. But... there is also a brilliant, fun atmosphere, and some superb riding.
I've not been, but apparently Verbier is meant to be good for slightly more rolling, less rocky/technical terrain?
The Mega takes place the first week the lifts open and my impression was that at that point in the season its all about the mega course and qualifying course.
As I was doing the race I spent most of my time on the courses and trying not to wreck my bike before the evvent.
The Avalanche cup course looks good if you have a big bike and there was a nice looking Red going to Oz station, I wish I'd rode.
The bermed track under the main DMC lift was fun, but had tons of braking bumps by the end of Mega week.
Many of the other trails were not well marked and needed some bedding in, many looked like someone had just made them with a lawn mower.
My girlfriend did not get into it when we were out there, only riding one day, but I think it was more the intimidating mega riders, rather than the trails. Again she will ride Reds with no major issues in the uk.
There are loads of options down in the Bourg d'Oisans area.
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The total riding area is smaller than PDS, but you can travel over to Les Deux Alpes (a short drive) for the day, and you are covered on the same lift pass.
I thought it was just that you get a free day there if you buy the week pass for ADH.
I didn't ride much apart from the Mega and qualifier trails out there. Both great fun, but fairly hairy in places.
Me and the missus rode quite a few of the trails that weren't in the Mega course when I did it. Some were pretty mellow - there's a nice blue/green trail down through Vaujany that uses old cart tracks. Some weren't trails at all, they sent you down a rocky fire-road! Some were proper reds/blacks with loads of steep switchbacks, not as hard as the Mega course but a step above the level of a trail centre black.
If you get away from the lift-accessed runs there is some pretty nice stuff where you won't meet another soul.
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Maybe the alps is not the place for your GF then? You cannot compare trail centres to the alps
Would have to disagree with you RHSno2.
We found alot of the trails around Sainte Foy near Les Arc to be very similar to some trail centres we've ridden. A few sections were more technical but not many that i can recall.
I think the Les Arc area is ideal for Alp first timers, which we were last year. We loved it so much we're back in September.
I've not ridden anywhere else in the Alps yet so can't comment on other areas.