Day 5 Final day of my Tour du Mont Blanc. The route for today: a long 1400m descend, a 600m climb and then the final 600m descend into Chamonix Valley. Will the MTB gods be good today as well? Apparently not. That long descend was first too steep, technical and rocky to be ridden. It then turned into a road (still steep and rocky, would be a difficult climb on Continue…
The last hard day, with 2000 m of climbing (and 1500 m descending) in just 30 km. Mais les dieux du VTT étaient bons aujourd’hui (yes, VTT is MTB in French – vélo tout terrain). Despite three climbs done almost exclusivity alongside the bike, both of today’s descends were bikeable! Can’t believe it! The second descend was actually quite easy – nothing technical, just go straight down. Went through one Continue…
A buffet breakfast in a remote place almost 2100 m above sea level is a great way to start the day. Reached the high point of my tour – Grand Col de Ferret, ~2550m. Not the view I expected though. This is also the border between Switzerland and Italy. Arrivederci Svizzera! Had some very good mountain biking (km 10-20 in the Strava track). Mostly level trail, good quality, great views. Continue…
After having ridden the cable car all day yesterday, I feel like today is the first day of proper biking. Started with the descend to Trient, followed by several ascents and descents, that I’ve lost track. What I can say is I’ve ridden (or pushed my bike) on all types of surfaces, but the main one was steep gnarly rocky rooty trail. And yes, I’ve pushed my bike up and Continue…
This blog has been neglected for the past year due to… let’s say activity reprioritization. Or temporal resources deficit. Anyway, I’ll try to get up to date and I’ll start with this year’s epic adventure: doing the Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB) on a bike. For whoever’s not familiar with the TMB (hi mom!), it’s a very popular hiking route going around the Mont Blanc massif. It crosses troix pays: Continue…