Maritime Alps… a few holiday snaps

Just back last night.

4 days, 5000m of ascending, 7000m of descending, lots of lovely trails 😀

Very nice, I am extremely jealous.

I see greg has been working hard 😉
Shame we've missed each other again 🙁 I don't knwo how we manage that (maybe time to swap phone numbers).

Where have you been then?

weather looks crap 😛

weather looks crap

Tell me about it I don't have a chance to use my winter kit 🙁

Last pic is like, fully gay.

glad you like it

Juan – Sat/Sun/Mon would have been very difficult for us (long story)… and Tuesday you couldn't do 🙁

I read the thread title as "Marmite Alps".

Doh.

At least you still got to go smith, we clearly didn't make it to Finale. We did consider driving down for a while but thought it a bit far for 3 days riding. Will let you know when we rearrange and see if you can make it.

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Very nice, I am extremely jealous.

Same here 😆

Don't remind me about freaking tuesday…
Most useless unemployement office meeting in the whole history of the whole universe

Alright Ash, Rob!

I'm dismayed by the lack of wifebeaters in your pics….

Looks awesome! Well jealous!

Chris

Jammy buggers, the lot of you. (not that it's actually been bad here – we just don't have 7000m of descending in the entire bleeding country!). Is that the famous RHS on the green Commical? Pic 3 looks like it generates a lot of vert drop in a very short space!

Where is pic number 3 under gourdon or somewhere else?

somewhere else, guess again 🙂

Is that the famous RHS on the green Commical?

it is

Pic 3 looks like it generates a lot of vert drop in a very short space!

the photo exaggerates it slightly for some reason, but it IS a fairly tight section

Very nice pics as usual.

Bit of a busman's holiday isn't it?

5000m up and 7000m down in …FOUR days?

You've gone soft Ash. Too much swiss cheese obviously. I did 3000m up and 3000m down in ONE day on Friday as it happens. And the weather was blue skies all day too. Oh yes.
And in the UK too. England in fact, to be more specific.

(Admittedly I didn't see any switchbacks, but you cant have everything)

ok my tongue to the cat as we say here 😉
Where is it? I can quite see myself going there next week 😀

Oh and who is the white bike? I was going to say it was greg's test bike for VV, but I can see on pic 2 that is riding his SC…

Juan, it's basically switchbacks close to the gorge part of the Bevera valley. Just upstream from the Italian border.

<jealous> Looks nice.. Apart from pic#4, trails buff and dusty as a dusty thing I take it… </jealous>

Nice pics Ash.

I have lots of invites to ride more on the French side (other than Tende/sospel area) will have to take them up,

will have to do with riding about 7000m vert Down with Nico Voulioz tomorrow 🙂

Who is this Nico person?

I reckon it would be really cool to do a 7 day trip through Provence with special stages that time the DH sections and then finish with Col Turini to Sospel on the 6th day and then on the 7th: Monaco. I'd buy that for a dollar!

looks excellent

Was that with Ade (ward?).

Great riding.

MEA97ETS

Nico as in nicolas vouiloz

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Go to get down to the Maritimes sometime very soon.

Yes you should

looks good.

Rhs if you do that again you might see me

bugger it reminds me i had to translate stuff for ash
ouuu bummer

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well he didnt turn up anyway!!

Col di turini to Monaco can easily be done in a day, i did it to Menton one day, awesome ride..

Next time you are in the area, try Cime Marta to Ventigmilia, on the Italian/French ridge 75km, 3200m down and about 700 up….really cool ride, and easily link up with Tende and sopsel.

Col di turini to Monaco can easily be done in a day

Yes… BUT:

T-P Day 6: La Colmiane – Lantosque – Turini – Sospel

T-P Day 7: Sospel – Braus – Peille – Monaco

What is it with more Dh than Up anyway 😉
next time park in fontan…
Go toward le lac des mesches then take the trail up go down to granille (amazing dh), then to bergue (both of them) then take the long fireroad up and go down in the wood toward fontan.

Or give me a shout we'll do the torrage the last bit of DH is just amazing 😀

Hi Ash

Mmmm maybe a bit of a long stage, there was a race I did about 3 years ago that was this route, organised by a chap called Olivier in Sospel….he runs Bar Roma there, you know him?

I take it day 7 was most of the route we did on "that day"?

I still remember using my mobile phone as a light whilst bonked…very memorable day..

Will do juan..

Just been flat out, but hopefully we will have a couple of days free next week and would love to hook up for a ride, I havent done enough on the French side, and I love the trails of Tende/La Brigue/ Casterino, big exposed and techy…perfect..

nash give me a shout. I might be at molini monday with the shop maybe I'll see you there.

Mmmm maybe a bit of a long stage, there was a race I did about 3 years ago that was this route

Which? T-P Day 6? What race was that then and what was the route?

I take it day 7 was most of the route we did on "that day"?

yes 🙂