Help please
pedal up the hill then....
yeah - will do - just want some suggestions as to the downhill - thanks anyway smarty pants!
Road to les gets -> green route up the hill to as high as you can be ar5ed. Then red back down. Back up the green and round the back of the hill from the top of the red to Morzine?
Or theres the "black" XC from Les Gets as well. Could do it either direction.
If it's still clear of snow there's some really nice stuff up on the mont chery side of les gets. From the very top you you run down the ridge to the left (as you look up the hill from the bottom) and there's a path off to the right that drops out toward the back of the hill, right at the bottom of this and you'll make your way around the rear of the hill and appear on the road to morzine. Another one worth doing if you can find it on the map is the run from the top of the col de joux plan down to samoens. A long ride without any lift but some great trail.
ride up the road to the goat village, up under the lift to the col de chesery, then over portes du soleil, across the swisss side to the col de cou and back down to morzine.
similar to col de chesery but back down to Chatel. (long way) back to morzine on road.
Up col de jeux plan and follow the chapelle de jacquicourt route.
Up col de jeux plan and back on the morzine side.
Plenty to do if you don't mind a road climb...
cheers guys had an awesome day - went up Col de Cous...bit of hike up but well fun...buckled wheel and ripped saddle off rails...all good fun thou....
Gunna do the Avoriaz climb tomo on road bikes
[i]went up Col de Cous...bit of hike up but well fun[/i]
This Col de Cous?
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Matey 2nd from left cleaned it on his Patriot!
Matey & Patriot..
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If you have transport and can get to Samoens, there is some excellent XC riding from there (was out there a couple of weeks ago). Get an MTB map from the tourist office (and probably the IGN 1:25k map as well as not everything is clearly waymarked). Samoens is very much open for business; Bar La Savoie in the main square does decent food all day.
One option is to try the climb up the road to Pont du Dedain then offroad to Lac du Gers (took us 1h 15 I think); from Roux you drop back into Samoens entirely on singletrack - a classic.
On the Joux Plan side, the route that climbs up via Les Allemands, across the hill and down the trail marked as "black 61" on the map is most excellent. The red one off the main Joux Plan road also very good (#50 I think) - you can pick that up at the top of the col, or about 1100m where a track goes straight on from a right hand hairpin (it's obvious from the MTB map as a couple of routes use the track).
Also some good stuff down from Les Esserts into Morillon.
On the road, Morzine/ Col d'Encrinaz/ Pont du Gets/ minor road into Taninges/ Samoens/ Col du Joux Plan/ Morzine is a great circuit.
The Col du Ramaz is also great (from Mieussy via Sommand to Praz du Lys); you could go main road through Les Gets, minor road at Pont du Gets to Taninges, Mieussy, Ramaz, then back over Encrinaz to Morzine.
Final road option is Vallee Vert from St Jean d'Aups - lots of quiet roads in that area.
What's the weather like over there at the mo?
Bright and fairly mild.
Could do with getting a bit colder soon!
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very little snow as yet....rode up to Avoriaz today...beaaauuutiful