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Mountain bike vacations in France,
Alps
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Mini TransAlps Carroz to Chamonix: the
essential (4 days/3 nights)
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The Mini
TransAlps Carroz to Chamonix
is the short version of TransAlps
Carroz to Chamonix.
You'll start directly from Carroz,
no warm up, straight to essential!
Short stay doens't mean less mountain bike,
you'll have your dose of singletracks, long climbs, epic
downhills, breathtaking landscapes...Short
but intense!
The night in the quaint
remote mountain refuge
of lac de Gers and the climb of Col
d'Anterne are the reals experiences of this trip.
Because of no warm up and
that you won't time to get familiarisied to alpine riding,
you'll need to be in pretty good shape,
good technical skills, able to ride or to push (day
2) the bike and not afraid to climb! |
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Description
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A condense of MTB in 4 epic
days
3 nights, tuesday to sunday,
3 days of lift assisted riding,
1 day of pure human
power assisted ride...
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level
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Advanced to
accomplished, all around
rider. Like to go downhill
but not afraid to climb for several hours when needed.
Very good bike handling
skills. Able to ride on
technical singletracks,
self confident on any sorts of situations.
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Kind of terrain
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All kinds of
trails. Cruisy 2 path
trails, easy singletracks, technical (some are very
technical) and challenging singletracks, rocky and
rooty trails.
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Locations
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Grand Massif and Chamonix
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Lodging
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1 in night Chalet guest house or
Chalet Hotel in Carroz
(depend on chosen option)
1 night in remote mountain refuge of lac de Gers,
1 night in chalet/bunk house in Chamonix
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Included
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3 nights accomodation, all meals
from lunch thirsday arrival to lunch sunday departure,
guiding, all ski passes, road transfert to bike spots,luggage
transport, airport transferts.
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Not included
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Air flight, expense of repair and
maintenance of the bicycle,the
cancellation/help insurances and repatriation,the
bicycle rent, personal energy drinks and foods...
and in general all that is not included/understood
in the heading "the price includes/comprises"
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Physical and technical skills (out of 5)
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Physical fitness: 3/5
to 4/5
Technical skills: 3/5 to 4/5
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Shedule 2008
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From july 24 th to july 27 th
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From august 21 st to august 24
th
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From august 28th to 31 st
Half lifts assisted version,
XC experts only!!
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From september 4 th to september 7 th
Half lifts assisted version,
XC experts only
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Price
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 : Tour available  : Tour departure insured  : Tour booked
Need
more infos? |
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The programm: arrival on thirsday
  DAY
1( thirsday) : First official
day our TransAlps to Chamonix,
we'll ride to Flaine and
take the skilift to 2500 meters. Top of Flaine is just breathtaking,
the view over the Mont Blanc
range and the mountains around
is absolutly unique! After a terrific 1000
meters descent , we'll sleep
in the quaint remote mountain
refuge of lac de Gers.
Refuge de Gers has hot showers, running water, toilets.
Rooms are shared between 4 /6 people. The dinner will make
you taste the local style cooking.
Distance: 25
km
Uneven positive:
200 m Uneven negative: 1000
Physical difficulty: 2/5 Technical
skills: 3/5
 DAY
2 (friday): Long and difficult
day! First we descend down to the village of Sixt
Fer a Cheval 750m then we'll
climb to col d'Anterne 2257m,
most of the climb in unridable.
The first part of the climb can be done on the bike than
no choice,
it's a
push and carry session
to Lake d'Anterne
than to Col d'Anterne!
The reward is a 1600m descent
to Le Fayet where we'll take
the Tramway du Mont- Blanc to Col
de Voza 1650m the descend to
Les Houches village via a technical
singletrack and to Chamonix!
Distance: 45
km
Uneven positive: 1500m
Uneven negative: 2200m
 Physical
difficulty: 4/5 Technical
skills: 3/5
DAY 3 (saturday) :
Riding in the mythic spot of Chamonix
under the lord the Alps, the Mont Blanc, is a dream for
many bikers in the world. We will carry out this dream by
crossing the valley thanks to the cabins of le Tour
via Flegere, while going down
in the Vallorcine
valley by a beautiful singletrack which slaloms under the
larches!!
Exceptionnal landscapes, various
trails will satisfy the hungriest MTB riders...
Good whole...
 After
the ride a visit of the city is essential!!
Outdistance:
42 km
Uneven positive: 300 m Uneven
negative: 1100 m
Physical difficulty: 2/5 Technical
skills: 3/5
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4 (sunday) : Ride on "Grand
Massif" area.
We'll explore this unknown (not
for the moment but it won't last...) resort through the
ski area of Carroz, Samoens
and Morillon. For the unfrightenned,
they 'll can try the DH slope
of Morillon. Trails are very
various, double track to technical tracks, open pastures,
and a beautifull view over the Arve and Giffre rivers valley.
Outdistance: 40
km
Uneven positive: 300
m Uneven negative: 1200m
Physical difficulty: 2/5
Technical skills: 3/5
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NB:
the tour is run with a minimum of 4
guests, we can arrange the accomodation if you want
to arrive on wednesday before departure.
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Chalet
Les Airelles
Chalet
Odysseus
Chalet
Coquelicot 
2008 Mountain Bike Tours
