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Do the singposts marking the route remain in place after the event ? Over there on Saturday and was thinking of doing the route on Tuesday.
Cheers.
Over there on Saturday and was thinking of doing the route on Tuesday.
Is that because the sun will be out by then?
not sure but you can follow the map easily enough
They run a few extra lifts for the ppds so you'll be doing some climbing. There is the the pds tour route which roughly goes the same way and is mostly marked but there are enough missing to mean you need a map.
Lots of GPS files of the route out there if you've got a device.
mostly there. A map is handy, or the topo guide book.
They run a few extra lifts for the ppds
Not really.
There are some lifts open for the weekend that arent normally open until July. The PDS route can be ridden any of the days that the lifts are open through the summer.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rGgLbCyvJvqQO86TKGZkiYHVf3cVG58CVldwoO5HPFY/edit?usp=sharing
Not really.
There are some lifts open for the weekend that arent normally open until July. The PDS route can be ridden any of the days that the lifts are open through the summer.
I may be wrong here, but at least the year I did it, I was sure that PDS marked the start of the season - there were only a few lifts openned when we arrvied on the Weds (Pleney, LG 1 & 2 and Les Gets Bike Park) but come Friday Super Morzine and all the lifts towards Switzerland openned for the event and stayed open until the end of the season, saying that I couldn't comment on the one on the other side of the loop, frankly once was enough - it's not an event I really enjoyed away from the 'usual places' it seemed to be lots of plodding, steep road climbs and endless arm ruining rocky fire road descents.
All lifts are open next from Friday onwards necessary for the Passportes.
From previous experience of trying to retrace some of the PPDS route later in the week, I would not count on it being left fully signed.
On my previous visits there have been extra sections taped in just for the event, which are better than the permanent signed route.
GPS sounds like a good idea.
No GPS. Oh well... see how I feel I might tag along on Sat or Sunday.
From memory (been a few years since our last visit but did it a quite a few times)
1) the event route sometimes changed but the standard PDS loop was permanently signed with wooden finger boards showing the PDS logo.
2) we headed out a couple of days later (so not the weekend, maybe the following Monday or Tuesday) to re-trace the loop and one of the lifts in or near the Swiss side had shut for a few days for maintenance. We were met with a Gallic Shrug and a substantial road climb...
Thanks CTM.
when i did it the entire swiss side was shut due to clouds. Funnily enough the french side 2 mles away was open.
Total farce of a day, never again. Didn't even think the riding was that good to be honest.