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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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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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Posted on 10th June 2016
Stoppie turns for the win!

I left the EU today**. It was easy too. Me and 3 fellow EU citizens packed the bikes into the car, went to the boulangerie and drove over the border into the wildlands of Switzerland. Then after a days riding came back to the EU.

There’s still a couple of days to go until the Chamonix lifts open for the summer so lazy riding needs a bit more effort. Fortunately Switzerland’s Postbus service can provide just the help we need to get 1700m of descending for only 700m of up.

Woop.

The Col des Planches area is new to me … [Read full post]

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Cunning as a fox drunk on cunning juice

Posted on 18th November 2015
15m into a 1500m descent. Life's hard sometimes.

Ahh, the clear mountain air, the efficient clean travel on a bike, the pristine alpine environment.

Shame we drove here.

Worse, the ride’s plan involved knocking the vertical climbed down from 1500m to 450m by driving over in 2 cars, leaving 1 at the bottom then heading back to the top. More wasted miles, more wasted time, more wasted CO2.

But, in the future, it will be different…….

Electric cars are getting closer and closer (it’s a long read, but way more worth while more than the rest of this) and renewables are forming more and more of the grid … [Read full post]

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