Can anyone recommend guides for gravity assisted singletrack in the Lenzerheide area? I'm off looking for new locations for next years mates Alps holiday (been to Les Arcs 6 times - love it in the Tarantaise valley but looking for alternatives).
Apparently the bike park is pretty well organised and easy to navigate - but I'm also looking to find out what the back country scene is like (are you even allowed to ride bikes outside the park?) and so on.
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Ok so the advice was to check the Herbert Bike site and contact a local guide using that.
Herbert Bike also do great offers on tickets, accommodation and uplifts for bikes as a bundle.It looks a great area to ride with some longer routes down to Chur and back up on a Bus or Post Auto...
Google Herbert Bike Lenzerheide and used the translate feature or:
https://www.herbert.bike/en/destination/lenzerheide/angebote
HTH
Spent a week there last year, the back country stuff is immense, we self navigated using herberts maps you can email them for bit would happily use them as a guide if funding allowed. They were really helpful when we got there too as we were late in the year and needed alternatives as the top lift was shut. Have a look at their bahnen tour, there's a write up on it on pinkbike too.
We went with the aim of wild camping/bivvying but after a couple days really poor weather checked into a cheap lodge, this turned out to be ideal as the accommodation came with a free lift pass for the whole area and was cheaper per night than buying the pass on its own!
Grischalodge I think it's called, basic but comfortable and quiet, and significantly cheaper than anywhere else in the area barring airbnb. Imagine it's a bit of a teens abroad kinda place in winter but when we went in autumn it was nice. Feel free to drop me a message if you want to know owt else.
thanks, I spent 4 days staying at Sunstar hotel in lenzerheide (so got included lift passes). I was there just checking the area out to see if we'll come properly riding next season.
observations
* it's very expensive compared to Germany/France, i.e. expect to pay for £15 for the cheapest thing on a lunch menu. I saw a £17 bowl of soup at a mountain (nothing fancy restaurant).
* lift passes are expensive unless you get them bundled with your accomodation
* the park trails are amazingly cared for. I saw people out sweeping them in the morning.
* back country trails are good and well signposted for the un-guided. I didn't try out the trails down to Chur and so found them easier than other Alpine destinations (but still fun).
* I like the big swimming area!
* plenty of bike shops and a real positive attitude towards mountain biking (unlike Les Arc in France where it seems they just don't want us there)