Ok, so a slight change of plan.... no Pila now so in Morzine till 10th/11th before heading to Les Arcs.
Does anyone fancy a more remote/pedally ride at all? We are free from Sunday 7th till Wednesday 10th. I am about to book canyoning and via ferrata so a couple of days will be taken up doing other stuff.
Ade, sorry a bit late for you, having a sorting out morning but shout and i'll keep an eye on this thread.
Ahsf, a spin would be great once i get to Les Arcs, or if you do hang around in Morzine give us a shout.
Stoner, I hope your fingers on the mend... saw your other post and thinking about heading to La Marmotte Bar to enjoy the entertainment this evening, it'd be good to say hello... I will be the sad looking guy in a riding top as I managed to leave my pile of tee shirts neatly folded up on the bed back in the UK... Haven't had a chance to find a reasonably priced shop to grab a couple yet!
Got to say it is good to be in the mountains!!
Mbnut will be in marmotte tonight but afraid the music is now fortnightly not weekly, sorry. Got that wrong.
Look for a bloke with two brats, lovely wife and defective hand. Might be able to do a ride together maybe Sunday, or in the week depending on plans to go to Italy for a few days
Nice one - yeah Sunday or Monday could be do-able.
How about the Samoens descent?
Ade, if my van is back on the road (will know this time tomorrow), you, me and mbnut could meet at pleney / chavannes and lift up to ranfoilly, ride to col du joux plan and down the bourgeoise descent and Mrs Stoner can collect us from Samoens as she would then ride her Road bike back.
Awesome Stoner - sounds great. Will watch this space.
& if mbnut really wants to make it really pedally, he could ride back up the hill too 😉
For a pedally ride we can do my favourite loop:
1000m of lift assistance
600m of pedally climbing
25km
Pleney lift
Les Gets
Chavannes lift
Tour De plateau de loux
Les Gets
Chery bubble lift
Mont Caly
Col d'Encrenaz
Col de la basse
Les Paquis
Les bois noirs
Essert Rommand
But we can save that one for later
Cool... fingers crossed for the van 🙂
Hello
No Marmotte tonight which is a shame, rode down that way earlier to find it but didn't see it, is it near the pizzeria place?
As far as a ride goes we would be very much up for that, there is actually 2 of us so it maybe that I will have to ride back up the hill!! It says it is only 572m of ascent... sounds dreamy on super gravity tyres ;-D
To be honest I am not against the idea of your favourite loop Stoner, sounds a good 'un.
At the moment I have the option of canyoning Sunday morning or Monday afternoon so I will hold off booking till I hear from you...
Hope the beers are flowing well...
La Marmotte d'Or - bar tabac Montriond
https://goo.gl/maps/cpSURfg7Ze92
It's behind the casino shop, has the large terrace to one side
We might well manage 4xbikes on the back, but I've never tried it with grown up sized ones. We can fit inside OK.
Let's wait to see if M Tilley has fixed my clutch master cylinder first!
Guys, no news from the garage about the van so I'm afraid it looks like Sunday on the bourgeoise is out.
Weather looks good on Sunday though. We can do an easy version of the pedally route, missing out the col de la basse climb.
Meeting at bottom of pleney first lift and bottom of chavannes for les gets people?
I am booked into a hotel in Morzine, from the 17th to the 21st, the Hotel Le Grand Tetras, but I can't make it. I have untill sunday to cancel my booking before paying the full price, so if anyone wants to take that booking off me and negotiate with them for time periods I will give them the deposit (65euros).
MSP let me think, I really want 14-16th to meet up STWers on the thread. Grand Tetris I like, simple and good value
ps I booked a double bed, because I don't llike to sleep on a tripwire.
Good evening Stoner, Sunday morning at the bottom of the Pleney sounds great.
What time?
Pleney first lift is 9ish I think so shall we say between then and 9:15.
We'll be at chavannes by 9:30. Will finalise the route when we're all together.
I will [s]wear a red rose in my lapel and ask for a light for my cigarette. You will say "the lamas fly North for easter" [/s] be the tall bloke mainly in black on a canyon nerve. Waving half a hand around suggestively
Sunday 9:30 by the chavannes sounds great. See you there Boyos. I'll be on a bright green cube stereo, with bright green forks. I will mostly be wearing bike clothes and an Urge veggie lid and a red camelback.
Good luck with the van!
What's the van for?
I'll have a word with my companions and see what they say..so is the STW meet now on the 14th?
The reason I ask about the van is because I've a LWB Sprinter that seats 7 ( we are 5 ) but could probably get 20+ bikes in..
The van is for a lift back from Samoens. However since mine is still off the road we're doing a different route instead.
Meeting on this Sunday 7th is not instead of 15th,just an extra get together for those around this Sunday morning
Great stuff... I shall see you at the bottom of the Pleney at 9...
I will be on a Spesh Enduro and my lad will be on a Transition Bandit, he'll probably be yawning and wondering how long there has been two 9 o'clocks in one day!
Just a quick check, is this a knee pads and normal helmet kinda day...
Cheers
Normal helmet.
I don't own any other protective gear. Knee pads for those with knees worth saving then 🙂
Oh yeah good question on the helmet.. I usually just go with the FF over here but if we are doing a good amount of pedalling I'll dress UK non-uplift style.
I have soft pads so will have them anyway... bikes all sound pretty similar 🙂
OK. Brilliant. Have fun..ride safe.
I'll be watching the topic re the 15th
I really want to do the Bourgouesie ride- but not ride back up. On the 15th, how are we going to shuttle this?
Bourgesoise not scheduled for 15th I think due to timings and Weeksy needing to get back to Burgandy. Let's think about it for the following day perhaps ?
Any time really between 14 and 26th will be good for me. It will be good to ride something new.
My van and chauffeurse should be in action again next weekend onwards to assist in getting three or poss even four of us back from Samoens so we will have options nearer the time
this time next week i will be somewhere outside Pa de calais driving down .. cant wait 13 days in the mountains !!
Just confirming all good to go here for the morning.
Heading to the fireworks at Montriond via food at Marottes.
For me - still on for tomorrow. See you at the chavannes in Les Gets (the bottom) at 9:30.
Yep all on for me too.
I'm up at the lac now mbnut. Why don't we try and catch up.
I've emailed you the other day. My no. Is on the bottom of the email.
Ade, I don't have your email address so a thread post will have to do. Mbnut has had to drop out. Im just at the pleney caisse so will be a little after 930 at chavannes. Grab a coffee.
So sorry guys.... all the prep in the world last night and we pull the bikes out to find a flat, a bladder that randomly sprung a leak and my lads trail lid had managed to sustain damage to the retaining system... the subsequent faffing just pushed us into the too late for people to wait zone.
Super frustrated as these rides are the ones I have been looking forward to... a break from the bike park would have been lovely.
Hope you are having a good one.
Great ride. Just back to the bottom of the pleney and ade on his way back to les gets.
First proper ride of summer for me so I was a bit out of shape compared to the very fit ade! Perfect weather.
Picon biere going down well.
Mbnut, keep in touch by email. May well get another chance.
Well my bikes checked, serviced, alpine ish tyres on and stored. just got to get through the week and the drive down now . Hoping the weather holds as my backs feeling good after test rides Physio and gym. No doubt I will be blowing out my arse come about 11am on the 15th though as majorly lacking bike fitness. Hopefully won't hold the group up too much
Hey there - thanks Stoner. Great off-piste grintastic route it was ace exploring the area, discovering new beer stops and learning about the area too.
Thanks a lot!!!
Hope to do it again some time.
Ade
p.s. lbs in Les gets (Nevada) sorted the free hub play by popping a small spacer ring in. Seems good to go again now. All I need is another pass to test it properly
I'm guessing spacer will only be temporary fix as it will cut in again soon enough. Do less climbing and more lifts it my prescription
Thanks for the company on the trail
Will let you know 🙂 sounds like a conversation for another beer.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO jealous !
Are we there yet ?
lol
I've made it as far as Kent. Ferry tomorrow, then down to Tours to visit the family.
Car is filled with bikes B-)
Hi guys, just jumping in on this. I will be in morzine on the 15th. Would love to possibly come ride with you, what will you be doing? DH or trail ?
Something in the middle i think mate. Lift assisted but not full on black jumpy stuff on the way down.
Great sounds good! Will be in touch on here over the next few days for organising
I've made it to Tours and have almost emptied the fridge of beer, cheese and saucisson!
jontykint- have you seen the very organised spreadsheet?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14bNgzzPh6Q2MT01QCMbfwU3vhQsHnrG_NsUW7oOd7dE/edit#gid=0
Add your details.
Just been sorting all my kit out, i'm going to look like a stormtrooper but ride like a fairy 🙂
I sprained my wrist being clumsy walking down a mountain the other day which is annoying as I wanted to do a recce ride today. I'm still probably going to go out but take it easy.
Going to do supermorzine, lindarets, mossette and some exploring on Swiss side. Will report back later.
Had a dabble at a more trail riding route the day I missed you guys. It was good to Have a good look over the back of Mont Chery.
Ade, I thought i'd use the rainy day yesterday to see what the fuss was about the climb back from Samoens, so I rode over there for a coffee and back again.... ouch. I should have had 2 coffees.... dog slow as on a mtn but didn't stop... kinda enjoyed it once i'd finished.
Back on the lifts today much to my knees relief!
Off to Les Arcs tomorrow so no chance of catching up, enjoy the rest of your trip.
Mbnut so you rode the Samoens climb non stop on an Alps orientated MTB - Chapeau !!! Did you do the descent from Bourgeoise ? The bottom part of the descent from around Chantermerle is a marked VTT route with the road climb up.
To all currently in Deauville doing a few roadish rides on the Covert, hoping to make it down for 15th but timing looking a bit tight at the moment sadly 😐
Currently I'm still near Tours with the in-laws. At least I can ride the road bike I suppose.
Ambrose, family Stoner heading off to fond de la combe this morning for a picnic /walk and explore. Can't wait.
I will only be able to make Monday 15th.
I'm hiring a bike so will be picking that up at 8am and needs to be back at 6pm.
Is there a plan for the 15th yet? I'll be on an enduro bike rather than DH
Meet at Torico about 9 or so. I'm on an enduro too. Plan, hit lifts, come down, try not to kill myself. Lunch and then a beer before I've got a 3 hour drive back to Burgundy
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Final jacuzzi in our overnight stay while our house for the next week is being cleaned. Lovely little place in a village called Nyon.
*edit weeksy, if we meet at torico we have to get back up through town to the lift, if we meet by the water trough at the lift (assuming supermorzine is OK, unless people want to go over to chavannes) we get a quicker start *
Ive been collecting ideas in my head, enduroish rather than dh. Would like to suggest an early start from supermorzine lift, and peeps try and get their PDS day pass sorted the day before to avoid any queues.
We can stitch together various things, rather than aim to do a big out there ride that might be tricky keeping a whole gang together on different bike styles (I'm making excuses for the fat lads on dh here 😉 )
Supermorzine, zore, green to bottom of serrausaix as warm up
Serrausaix to col du joux vert, blue DH/transit link to Brochaux
Brochaux to mossettes
Then option descent to les croset via double track or black DH (comes out same place so different peeps can do different descents)
Followed by option les croset lift up the macheusen and red DH (I did it on my xc bike on weds) back to les Crosets.
Les Crosets back to mossettes
Lac vert descent from mossettes to lindarets with black or blue DH or transit options.
Regroup at lindarets for beer/coffee (anyone needing an early getaway can head back up lindarets lift and transit to super morzine bubble back to town in 20mins)
Chaux Fleurie to chatel bike Park via green DH/transit or straight into blue, red, and black dh. "Session", as I believe the youngsters call it, under rochassons and pierre longue for those that want to.
Return to lindarets via blue dh /transit or if I can find it a bit of ST trail that comes out at the goat village.
Depending on time option of dh from top of lindarets lift back to lindarets bowl a few times before return via transit along top of supermorzine and ST descent coming out at l'ele or other harder DH options to top of supermorzine bubble and take the lift back to town.
Anyone with other bits they'd like to add bung them in here.
The itinerary above is all in avoriaz/chatel/Swiss secteur not les gets. Has multiple options at key points so no one forced to pedal climb far or take a black dh if they aren't up for it.
Totally in your hands matey. Not sure I can realistically be there and collect bike before 9am. So depends what you class as early.
I assume I'll be parking in the big car park at the bottom and walking up the hill to shop.
I've only been up the supermorzine lift once, that's the on on the opposite side to the pleny isn't it? Sorry for daft questions lol.
I'll be in black and red DH short, red/black full face, blue black leg gets long jersey. Probably massive overkill and too hot, but trying safety over anything else.
I'll see if I can find out torico opening hours.
Super morzine opens at 9, rush hour is about 9:30 to 10;30 there and zore.
The lift is at the town end if the suspension bridge and takes you up opposite direction to pleney.
Have a great day. Sadly I am not going to make it down for Monday as we won't leave Deauville until later today or most likely Sunday and have to go back to Paris first. Hope to be there later in the week for a couple of days, will drop a note here if anyone is around and wants to meet up for a beer/dinner or a ride.
Safe drive Weeksy especially on the way back when you're tired and you will be 🙂 (cafine for the drive back)
Yes Super Morzine is the bubble the other side of town to Pleny down a little lane and past fhe water trough where its compulsory to take a photo of your bike, been there done that 😉
That Monday plan sounds ace. I could do with being back in town 4-5pm so a good chunk of that I am able to do
I think Torico opens at 8, I'm picking my bike up from there
Leaves plenty of time to get to the water trough for me. What about everyone else?
Torico may open at 8 lads, but I've got 3 hours driving to get there first so getting there, kitted up and loaded for 8am is optimistic
We'll wait for you. Tapping our watches and sighing. But we'll wait. Promise 😉
Edit : weeksy /others do you want me to get passes for you on Sunday evening and you can pay me back?
Do we have a roll call yet?
Confirm you're in below
We're aiming for 9:15-9:30 (but we wait for weeksy if he's late 😉 ) at the water trough in front of Super Morzine lift. There's a coffee shack nearby for early arrivals. I'll probably be there from 9
Try and sort your tickets (PDS 1 day pass!) beforehand or get to the caisse for 9
Everyone welcome.
I will be all in black, it's so slimming, and sporting 90% of a right hand.
Yes please Stoner if you wouldn't mind that would be great.
Due to Mrs Weeksy not attending I'll likely be earlier rather than later as I'm not bad at getting out of bed on my own.
Finally arrived. Tours to Morzine on a Bank Holiday might not have been the best of plans but hey ho, I've made it. Now watching Slumdog Millionaire (after sorting the rather small apartment's somewhat dodgy electrics) and drinking a chilled 1664. Bikes are re-built, all is good to go.
I'll be the bloke by the watertrough in a Hawaiian floral top on a Nicolai. The bike makes me look like I can ride. The top confirms otherwise.
🙂
850 km of traffic jams today. The worst weekend of the year they say
All in all about 45 mins to an hour lost in peage queues I suppose. Poor planning on my part.
Tomorrows crisis is to try to cash in last year's bonus points from my mutlitude of lift passes. Wish me luck.
Drove in from Geneva yesterday and there was zero traffic, should it have been busy?
Anyway, picking up lift pass today for Monday. I
Will be at the trough at 9am. I'll have a green ROOTS shirt on.
I'll just look for the other guys next to the trough who look like they are looking for other guys next to the trough.
Excellent. That's 4x then.
Where's everyone staying?
I'm in 100%. 650 mile drive done in just over 14 hours yesterday wiped me out and I'm nursing a slightly sore head from wine . But the view this morning makes it worthwhile , see you @ 9ish. Oh and I'm literally opposite the ridge hotel
@jonty Geneva only an hour away and traffic focused on Frenchies to/from holidays plus bh weekend. Geneva -> Morzine not really on that route. Ambrose more affected with his drive linking into main North/South routes I think
Have a great ride guys. I'm back home now and missing it already.
Stoner - thanks for the tip. I took the family up Col de Graydon. Lovely walk... bit faster on the way down 😉
Enjoy the ride guys, I like the 'red' perspective in Chatel with road gaps and massive hucks etc... they look lovely as you take the chicken line and ride meekly past.
Till next time.
A
Weeksy, I've got your pass.
There's a summer fete on in town tomorrow so the one way diversion is in place. That shouldn't effect you if aiming to park at the big car park in the bottom of the valley if you come in from the town side.
Makkag makes x5. Nice sized group. Makkag, I'm going to be in the marmotte d'or around 6ish tonight for some cold ones if you fancy rolling down the hill to find it.
Good to ride with you ade. See you next time
Thanks Stoner. Partly due to overdosing on red meat, cake and beers yesterday I've not had a single beer yet today, although I may do so at BBQ time later. But I'm expecting to be pretty fresh tomorrow with a bit of luck.
I'm planning on getting up about 5 and jumping straight in car. So 8.30 hitting Morzine. Get bike and maybe a coffee and then ready to play.
How's the weather? Its insane over in Burgundy at about 30deg and I'm worried about over heating in full armour and FF lid.
What do I owe you for pass?
*Eddie Murphy voice* It's hat! Real hat!
Glorious sunshine today. Climbed to 2237m and saw my first marmot today. Happy happy joy joy.
If you're not planning on doing black dh or railing the reds really hard, you may want to dress accordingly, like me in a tutu and Frozen t-shirt. I just wear a non ff, but enduroish lid myself.
€26 for the day pass. And we'll get at least 10 lifts in the day, maybe even 15. Bargin really.
Yeah but you've not seen my track record. FF and armour are coming
Hi stoner Just back with family so dinner and a few here , with the heat I'm debating armour but had to many accidents not to wear the full face , see you all in the morning . What time does the tourist office open for pass?
What are the plans for tomorrow? Potentially another 5 here if not too much climbing and technical blacks etc..
Just read the plans for tomorrow. What are the required skill levels? We're not on DH bikes and are happy with the blues and some of the reds here...spent all day today at super Morzine and yesterday at LG. Is there an estimated ascent in meters etc..
Yay- my bonus points got me a whole area day pass today :). Fun and frolics via Plenay, Chavannes and Nauchets lifts, spoilt with a trashed rear mech and wheel. All now fixed I hope. See you all in the morning, looking shifty at the water trough.
Makkag, you can also get the pass at the lift caisse for the supermorzine lift.
Tymbian
Skill level is low to middle-aged 😉
All routes have blue/green options, no one need do a red or above. There are red and black options for those that want them but all the options come out in the same spot.
Fwiw I ride a 4"fs with a racing Ralph on the front!
Ascent by lift will be massive, by pedalling it will be less than a few hundred feet. Slackers day tomorrow.
See you there Ambrose