Chamonix in May

I’ll be there arriving 21st May for work of all things, is it worth packing my bike? It looks like the lifts won’t be open by then but will I find trails further down the hill perhaps? Or some other kind of uplift? I’d be after enduro / DH type riding more than long XC outings.

Can’t help, but is it a work incentive trip, perchance?

Incentive? I’m not sure I follow but the trip is a team offsite as we’re a remote team spread across Europe.

Ah, my work are sending some folk who have had a particularly good year, around that time as a reward, thought you might be one of the lucky ones…

Ahh gotcha. Well the knowledge of these very necessary offsites were a definite incentive to accepting the job 😂

There’s some great riding in the Chamonix valley. Aiguiettes se Possettes being one of my most memorable trails (though it could in part be because it was on my first biking trips to the Alps way back).

Have a look here for a bit of inspiration.

https://www.instagram.com/chamonixbikeblog?igsh=MXd5cHJ4MmVtc25kdA==

Take waterproofs and wellies, and suncream too. It’ll probably rain but if it doesn’t you’ll get sunburnt. 🙂 May-June is the Chamonix monsoon.

There’s some terrific riding in the Chamonix valley! I went over on a group holiday with a company called Rough Tracks, which was then based in Calne, Wilts, where the print company I worked for was based, so we did all their print. One of their brochures had me in a couple of the photos from a previous trip out to the Parc du Volcans. Wonderful weather and stunning scenery. IIRC, I was riding a Cannondale Beast Of The East with a pair of the original Marzocci Bombers, the 100mm ones with orange sliders and disc mounts on both forks.
Would have been mid-90’s ish or so.

Of course it’s worth taking the bike.

But please do tell us how you got that gig through work? I’m lucky if I get an Easter egg and a shopping voucher at xmas.