Author Archives: chamonixbikeblog

How to ride a bike in Chamonix 2.021

Posted on 21st April 2021
Chamonix in a picture. Lots of sports, lots of geography, lots of blue sky.
All the information you need to ride your MTB in Chamonix. Lifts, passes, trails, life hacks, influence coaching and less.
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Lift openings 2021 // Roll the dice

Posted on 7th April 2021
If you wonder why we run our brake levers at bit higher in the alps, this should answer your question.
Lift opening dates for the alpine summer 2021 mtb vtt season. Hopefully.
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Stealing Autumn. 

Posted on 21st January 2021
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Guest blog post written by expotus, or, how the fine mtb trails of Chamonix were stolen from a perfect mountain biking autumn by winter for snow and ice and corrupt radical skiing
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Dorenaz

Posted on 22nd September 2020
Where is this going? Well, Wayne's going down and north, I've no idea where the blog's headed.
Mountain biking in Switzerland from the Dorenaz lift. Always open, always dry. Both the wit and the riding.
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Backpacks in the bikepark // Pila

Posted on 20th August 2020
Any of the atoms in this picture, in the screen you are looking at it on, could have existed since the birth of the universe. Just have a think about that for a minute. Or 13.7 billion years.
Pila, riding the bikepark, riding the not bikepark, considering the symbiosis between the birth of the universe and the dust that makes us, our bikes and the trails we ride them on.
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Emosson dam / Things are generally better than you think they are.

Posted on 16th July 2020
It's dark, but keep heading for the light.
Some words exploring the mountain bike singletrack around Emosson dam, and that the world is probably better than you think it is. Probably.
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Queyras

Posted on 2nd July 2020
If you're going to climb, you might as well do it somewhere picturesque.
A week of mountain biking in "The Cathedral of Flow." Or the Queyras Parc National as it's known on the map.
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Lifts in a time of Corona. Lift openings 2020

Posted on 7th May 2020
Some of my best memories from the trips were whilst on shuttle duty. Just sitting at the side of the road looking at the views, or drinking coffees whilst waiting in cafes. I am very much looking forward to getting back that life.
Summer 2020 bike park and lift opening dates for Chamonix / Valais / Aosta / Haute Savoie
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Playlist.

Posted on 28th April 2020
If the instagram post is now thought of as long form content to complement your insta-story, then the blog is as dead as print. So lets go old school and use some windows paint to edit the photo.
What do mountain bike guide's carry in their rucsac? Or backpack if you prefer. And music. Mostly music.
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A day in Italy

Posted on 18th January 2020
Wayne aka ChamonixMTB, Chamonix's first French qualified UK guide drifting into 2020.

There are many odd questions you get asked living in Chamonix. Where’s the lift to the Mont Blanc? Is it pronounced Chamonix or Chamonix? Are you a skier or snowborder? Which do you prefer; summer or winter? If you could only do biking or skiing; which?

Obviously these aren’t questions people are interested in the answer to, it’s just humans wanting to avoid silence and keep the distractions going, but the “if you could only…?” questions always intrigues me. Like, what freak scenario are you imagining that will leave the circumstances that would create only being able to ski OR … [Read full post]

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