Heading out that way this summer. I’ve been once before and mainly did bike park laps. I’ll still do plenty of that. However, would be keen for some longer, potentially lift assisted, big days out. Route suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks
There’s some good advice on this previous thread:
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/bike-forum/les-gets-help/
Was out there last week, mainly rode the bike parks but we did have a 'day off'. They have a bad rep in that other thread linked but we rode some of the marked 'enduro' trails and enjoyed it - enduro in the 90s sense of the word, really. Few good bits of singletrack and forest stuff mixed in there, its not all a fire road slog.
I am well aware there are loads of mega off pistey loamers and secret tracks but we wanted a brain-off recovery ride with some views and boy does it deliver. Made a great change from staring into a dust cloud at a vertical berm full of holes!
https://www.strava.com/activities/19227958228
Worth it for the views alone:
Made a great change from staring into a dust cloud at a vertical berm full of holes!
This is my problem with Morzine.....
Well, that and the queues....
Someone on here gave me a really nice loop out the back of Mont Chery which we did. I’d highly recommend it, but have no way of sharing it again as don’t have Strava or the like anymore.
It was up the Mont Chery lift, around/over the mountain and then down to Essert Romande and back to Morzine. we did it on the e-bikes and loved it. Started off at the apartment in Essert Romande, did a quick Pleney lap, over to Les Gets, 4 or 5 runs there, up a Mont Chery, over the top, back down to essert Romande, had a quick Coke, then looped back to Les Get for winner’s pizza and a cold beer before riding back to Morzine.
It made a lovely rest day from just bashing out park laps.
There was another one in the magazine a few issues ago out of Les Gets but we were home by then.
we did try an e-bike route from Mont Chery but I basically went along a fire road and back down the road into Les Gets , which sucked
Made a great change from staring into a dust cloud at a vertical berm full of holes!
This is my problem with Morzine.....
Well, that and the queues....
Dont assume I didnt love it - I did!
I was there when that reel was filmed - its a classic polarising social media post. We barely queued all week, its really not that bad.
barely queued all week, its really not that bad.
Was there two years ago.
The ratio of queue: ride didn't make sense to me.
We moved on after two days. Besides the queuing I'm not a massive fan of machines groomed trails and braking bumps holes.
Berm. Berm. Jump. Berm. Jump. Berm. Berm. Jump.... Ad nauseam.
I found one trail that dropped into the woods that was funny and ended at a little used lift. That one was fun.
Admittedly we didn't get across to the Plenty side as we were parked up the top in Avoraiz.
I was there last week. The worst queue was maybe 5 minutes to try onto the Super Morzine lift in the morning. Then it was generally 1 minute tops at the other lifts.
We did a route up Morzine and Zore lifts, along the Goat trail to Mossettes, up that lift into Switzerland, down to Morgins, ride to Chatel (we did it on the road but I believe there's a "VTT tour" off rod option), up the Chatel lifts, down to Lindarets then Lac Montriond and back into Morzine
I’ve just spent 3 weeks near Chatel. One of my favourite ‘big’ days was to take the Pleney lift and ride down to Les Gets. Then ride Sanny’s xc trail from the magazine feature on Les Gets (which has the best section of tech singletrack I’ve ever ridden). This leads back to Les Gets. Then the Mont Chery lift up and the enduro trail down to Essert Romand and back to Morzine. I did this on my ebike - it’s probably about 700-800m of climbing.
in many of the enduro trails, you seem to be able to find additional side-sections by keeping an eye out, and looking at the maps (especially walking maps).
Was in Les gets last year, I went exploring a little bit and found a nice off piste descent called la rosta, if you can locate that on Strava. It drops you back down at the mountain luge thing.
There was only a couple of instances of big queues when I was there, mostly only a couple of minutes.
Hopefully heading back again in August, turns out will be there up to the day before the dh WC gets in so I think it might be busy!
Planning on taking my daughter over to morzine this time, just for a bit of a different day out with her, just exploring, not hitting the big stuff (she's 10)
I've heard the swiss national is supposed to be a must do trail... How feasible is it do that on a big day out from Les gets on a non emtb? What's a recommended route? I'm happy to explore using marked trails only cos it's all new to me.
I've heard the swiss national is supposed to be a must do trail... How feasible is it do that on a big day out from Les gets on a non emtb? What's a recommended route? I'm happy to explore using marked trails only cos it's all new to me.
Very easy. Start on Retour du Morzine. Up the Super Morzine / Zore and Proclou lifts to top of Avoriaz. Drop into Lindretts on the main blue but turn right towards Mossets lift before you actually end up in in Lindretts. Up the Mossets lift and you are 200m of fire road from the start of Swiss National. To get back you have a little bit of pedalling towards lindretts but its minimal.
*please ignore bad spelling
@blackflag that's brilliant. Should it be easy to navigate if I get myself a new portes du soleil map (and the various bike park maps) when I get there?
trailforks is pretty good at showing the official trails on an actual to scale map.
the trail map is standard ski resort style cram everything onto a single sheet of paper, actual geometry be damned, and could get a tad confusing at first. that said, they do name the trails and the signage is pretty good.
Someone on here gave me a really nice loop out the back of Mont Chery which we did. I’d highly recommend it, but have no way of sharing it again as don’t have Strava or the like anymore.
It was up the Mont Chery lift, around/over the mountain and then down to Essert Romande and back to Morzin
'ezat this one?
: https://strava.app.link/xgUJLUXcP4b
The Swiss National track is amazing and so are the shorter tracks on the smaller hill directly opposite it.
Gutted I'm not going this year.
(Unless anyone has an empty passenger seat and needs fuel money)
The Super Morzine lift always looks like that first thing in the morning but the queue moves quickly and if you get there a bit later it’s pretty much gone
