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A few 10,000ft + in the same area as Snaps.
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It was 80 miles downhill after 🙂
40mph.
Which company did you go with? Assume it's Tibet.
I'd have been tempted to have a bit of rear sus' myself on the downhill to make the ride a little smoother.
13,000 or so feet on the Colorado Trail.
No lifts!
however high the top of 'la varda' in les arcs is
jesus i loved that descent, i want to go back NOW 😥
Around 4,500m above La Paz in Bolivia. Tougn to pedal up or even along at that height on a big bike
Apparently this is 6600ft. Rainbow Mountain.
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Went with Exodus (can highly recommend), and yes its tibet. Trails are mostly jeep tracks, a few options to take the fall line down for fun:
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Problems are dust and constant stutter bumps where the trucks go up and down - having your head banging up and down for hours when you have a altitude sickness headache is very wearing.
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however high the top of 'la varda' in les arcs is
2,574m.
Think my highest is here:
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Although I have ridden down from the top of Mont Blanc (4,810m), just on a snowboard, not a bike!
Be seeing you there in August Stevo!
10,000ft at the top of a Jupiter Peak up above Park City UT. Went to the top and back down again from the base at 7000ft 3 times in a day - twice on foot, once by bike IIRC. A few days later we rode to the top again and then went straight from the top down to the bottom (previously we'd gone more roundabout routes) on a high speed straightish run - had some serious brake fade by the bottom. Oh, and that was also at night!
Highest I've ever been is Worcestershire beacon on the Malverns, altitude is overrated 😉
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Trails were a bit too dusty.
But otherwise 3000m.
I've done the same descent that 40mpg has done (above) from Tibet down into Nepal, off the Lalung La pass (in 1995)
5200m down to 500m in Nepal (Dolaghat)
Took two days....
Bolivia with the guys from gravity on their day off. Uplift starts at about 3600m then goes up.
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