[Closed] mega avalanche 2015?

Here is the profile of the race http://www.strava.com/activities/172667863
So as you can see there is very little climbing. There is one main climb that really doesn't take long and a couple of other very short ones. Just hope to hell that you have better weather than I did this year! The mud was far worse than any hill!

The qualifier has no hills that I can recall.

would you enter it again?

Yeah, its was a good fun week. I would sack it off if the weather was as crap as we had it though. Fine once in that weather but not the experience I was hoping for.
Well worth doing and would be even better in the dry!

Best race evah! Done it about 4 or 5 times, but last year was a muddy hell for the main race

Not much climbing, worth doing at least once

Every year I want to do it but last year's put me off a bit, I'd have gone on a killing spree if that was my summer holiday...

2014 was a nightmare!
I'll probably still be back in 2015 though 😀

I think anyone who calls themself a mountainbiker should do it at least once in their life.

...if only for the experience of waiting on a glacier for a tape to raise and carnage to ensue, whilst listening to THAT music

Really fancy doing this ... how much would it cost overall ? camping, food, best way to get there i.e. car ?

You get a week a lift pass included in your entry for about 100 quid, sharing a car between 3 petrol and tolls maybe 200 quid each, food and camping 100 quid for the week, if you're careful

Weather did suxk this year,but the alps was very wet in general, mate did ppds in silar weather! but there's loads of brilliant trails in the valley, the qualifier course you race on Friday was absolutely fine this year and in itself its a brilliant dh track,just the middle 3rd of thus years race was a bog , theres loads of challenging enduro,xc and dh trails to ride in the area.
The crap middle section of the main course made me make more of an effort to ride some different trails and there's some very good techy stuff there
I also love the dh course under the oz lift

Its the Alps, Just be prepared for riding in extremes of weather !

if only for the experience of waiting on a glacier for a tape to raise and carnage to ensue, whilst listening to THAT music

This +1

This year was horrendous. We only went for a short week anyway, and didn't pack for it, so were a bit inadequately prepared. Didn't get up to ride the main track at all because of the weather & probably did 6 or 7 runs of the qualifier top section to the town, and didn't ride the lower part of that either.

There is very little, if any climbing on the quali track, there are some fairly draggy, flat, wide sections though so being super fit is a benefit.

Same for the race track, there are a couple of short climbs, and a nasty slog through the meadows above ADH, once you've managed that bit is flat out all the way down to Oz though.

Or, in this years case, a slow push with a bike seized solid with thick clay that weighed probably 60-70 lbs, with 250 other people.

The main race wasn't much fun this year.

I went this year, got the shits and missed the race. Qualifying was great fun though.

Most people looked like they shat themselves by the time finished anyway.
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Done it twice, 2012 and 2014.

2012 - Amazing, great weather, amazing racing, didn't die, one of the best weeks riding I've ever had

2014 - Miserable, wet, impassable clay sections. Final was a joke, once over the top of AdH and onto the traverse/woodland section, the mud stopped both wheels and added about 40lb to the bike. Hiked for about 2 miles through slop. Why they didn't take the race down the Oz dh track (which was actually running amazingly well) I don't know. It was still kinda fun, just very, very wet. Changing clothes 3 times a day isn't enjoyable.

I still want to do it again though, which sort of shows how good of a week it is.

P.S. The climb out of Alpe D'Huez may look short, but half way through the race and at 2000m, it feels like Everest. Luckily there's always a Frenchman with an air-raid siren to offer encouragement.

Does anyone know what time entries go live on Monday? The website says 12am but the countdown timer on the homepage would make it 12noon?!

Looks like my sign-up has been confirmed. Didn't really know what I was doing though so hopefully the options were correct.

Who else is in?

after last year I can't convince myself to enter.

After the horror of last year, I'll not be going again for at least a few years. Qualis was good but it all went downhill (even further) from there.

Registered, I see the website is somehow worse than ever. Just wouldn't be the same otherwise. Hopefully last years shoulder injury will have healed fully by July. Two dislocations in one qualifier was a bit much.

I'm in. It looks like I somehow managed to select a guide option too (language selection feature continually returned me to the homepage so completed the process in French). Does anyone know what the guide option gives you?

It's for an extra lift pass for family if I read it correctly. I may be wrong as my French is as good as their English.

chuck it down in french, will translate(I just got back home from my french course)

It's an extra pass as mentioned above, I coulndt figure out, from the English translation if it is only available for children (ie a child's entry) but I think it is, but then there is also the Kids Avalanche with a seperate entry form
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...or if I can get my mate to enter and use this to get me a lift pass to just ride for the week without the race bit

Package mountain bike guide special price *

1 accompanying package by registration. Possibility to have accompanying packages and more only for the (s) child (s) of the family of rider. Apply to info@uccsportevent.com

Package mountain bike guide special price. Full name *

Full name

What attending the Megavalanche accompany you. Full name *

Name and surname to Megaavalanche

Great, thanks all. I'll see if they can refund it.