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Downhill Weeks Dates & Prices Summer 2010: 17th - 24th July
- £459 (See prices page for up-to-date availability) For those who like their bikes big and chunky and don't do uphill, we offer downhill-only weeks with a focus on the steepest, gnarliest trails and an absolute minimum of pushing/climbing. The Tarentaise Valley has a lot to offer the dedicated downhiller. The resort of Tignes (15mins drive away) boasts 6 DH tracks, graded from green right through to an incredibly steep black. Les Arcs (20mins away) has an excellent DH track - used for the Avalanche Cup series - and lots of well-known and not-so-well-known steep singletrack trails. Right here on our doorstep we have some of the best natural singletrack trails you'll find anywhere. If you're part of a group of downhillers, we should be able to fit you in during almost any week of the chairlift season (July/August) but we're also running dedicated downhill weeks which can be booked place by place, see above for dates and prices. A typical itinerary for a DH week would be: Saturday - Travel to Sainte Foy and build bikes Sunday - Ride at Tignes. 6 dedicated DH tracks, accessed by two big lifts. More info here: Tignes Mountain Biking Monday - Ride at Les Arcs. Hit up the Cachettes DH track, the new Bike Park and the legendary Black 8 descent all the way back to Bourg Saint Maurice. More info here: Les Arcs Mountain Biking Tuesday - Road Trip! Get up early and we drive you across the Italian border and through the Aosta valley to the resort of Pila. Pila is home to a set of fierce DH tracks with chairlift access but the real clincher is the massive singletrack descent running from the base of the chairlift all the way back to the town of Aosta, over 1400m below. One of MBR's "10 Trails to Ride Before You Die". More info here: Pila Mountain Biking Wednesday - Our day off. Use the local uplift service to ride some of the sweet local singletrack, take a break from the bike to do some climbing, canyoning, white-water rafting or parapenting, or just chill out on the balcony with a beer and rest your aching body. Thursday - Singletrack day. We've picked out some of our favourite singletrack descents and figured out the best ways to make them accessible to DH riders on big bikes. We'll start in Sainte Foy and work our way along this side of the valley, using the White Room van for uplift and hitting at least 5 monster singletrack descents, varying from fast and flowing to steep, rocky & high-consequence. Total vertical descent (all on singletrack) should be well over 4,000m. Friday - Your call. Either we cross the Italian border again to ride the chairlifts and the sweet, hand-sculpted singletrack of La Thuile (see here for more info: La Thuile Mountain Biking) or we go back to Les Arcs and get a bit further from the marked runs to hit steep, gnarly, hard to find singletrack trails deep in the Malgovert forest. |
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