Category Archives: Chamonix ride

Lift openings 2023: General Artificial Untelligence

Posted on 7th April 2023

A new summer of lift riding sprawls before us…

What lifts will open? When will they open? How long will you keep reading my tenuously connected intro before scrolling down to the actual info?

Still reading I see.

The big buzz in writing write now is a.i. If you’re in any way stuck for content, just fire a question into ChatGPT, let it write the article for you and then at the end of your piece SURPRISE! drop the bomb that the algorithm wrote it…

So I tried that and it was pretty disappointing. Which possibly sums up your experience … [Read full post]

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Pumptracks

Posted on 7th December 2022

How hard is it to write an article about pumptracks without mining the “pump it up” tropes?

Hard. Very hard indeed. I’ll try avoid it, but can’t promise anything.

If you remember 2020 when the biggest thing we had to worry about was global pandemic and not global war (another opportunity to say go fuck yourself Putin and leave the world, in peace) the pumptrack bike became the overnight coolest must have you must have.

I got one too, cheers Airdrop!

Of course, pumptrack bikes aint nothing new, a hardtail playbike has been a staple of riders sheds since I … [Read full post]

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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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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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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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Something old, something new. something borrowed, something tree.

Posted on 14th November 2019
Quality content. Supplied by Toby's photography skills. #phonephotae.
Advertising a grand new(ish) Chamonix bike trail through the medium of an infinite library, Charlie Brooker and some average at best content.
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How to ride a bike in Chamonix.

Posted on 3rd December 2018
Chamonix. Grand, isn't it.
Your handy, one stop shop for everything you need to know to go mountain bike riding in Chamonix. Lifts, trails, restrictions, beer and bikes.
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Abhorred monster.

Posted on 30th September 2018
Encore une fois, Chamonix: does good backdrop.
We went for a bike ride above Chamonix and the Mer de Glace, took some photos, then wrote about someone far cleverer than me, climate change and e-bikes. As you do.
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The Ignoramus.

Posted on 16th September 2018
It's not just Les Houches, Coupeau's been seeing attention from the trail pixies too.
There's gold in them thar hills. Golden trails. Checking out the new mountain bike tracks appearing all over the Chamonix valley, but mostly in the Les Houches bit of the hood.
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Feel the serenity.

Posted on 27th August 2018
Now THIS is where it gets interesting.
Two days on bikes playing around the Fiz range. Some huts, some climbs and some cracking descents. All that way just to pick up some content...
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