Ride the Alps specializes in guided mountain bike holidays in the French and Swiss Alps

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Jamie, our guide, has more than 20 years of professional guiding experience

Winter alpine biking

With our new fleet of fat bikes we are now running winter biking holidays

More trail building, exploring more local trails. Once again we're making the most of our 10km radius during France's third confinement.
Mary, Thursday April 29

We're having a "false" Spring in the Alps right now. Riding in shorts on dusty dry trails and trying to forget that winter will be back next week!
Mary, Friday March 5

Why we think the Haut Giffre is the perfect destination for a singletrack summer in 2021.
Mary, Tuesday January 5

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“Thank you to Jamie for great guiding and company. We all really enjoyed it, as he was able to cater for our different abilities. Also thanks for Mary’s help with organisation beforehand. We are really…
Sarah, Giles, Martin and Jake McBrinn, July 2020

“Great week, great company and genuinely the best riding I’ve ever done.”
Tony Mills, August 2020

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Lockdown project #3 finished - well needs more jum

Lockdown project #3 finished - well needs more jumps - but the new track is completed now so can get down easier . Only yesterday finished linking all the sections with a long cut travers but now very easy to ride it . No trees cut just a bit of earth moved and a few roots trimmed . Best tools was in my garage all along a 30 year old ice axe !! Just sharpen up the adz to get thru little roots and useful as a rake that can carry easy in backpack . A cheap hoe from local handyman store with handle shorten also works good. Hope everyone who finds it likes it 😀👍🚵🏻‍♀️🚵cheers jc and Cammie 😉

Today we rode the tour du mole off-road on sunny s

Today we rode the tour du mole off-road on sunny side and minor road on the northern side !! Amazing différents as trails perfect dry and dusty one side . Snow covered on the other! Previous couple of days have been in Chamonix at Ensa the school of mountains learning some ways of how French teach mountain safety as was keeping my mountain leaders award current and up to date. Not a bad place to go to school eh! #ridethealps

Been a good week for riding bike here and not so m

Been a good week for riding bike here and not so much time working 😀👍 on Tuesday climb the big Saleve with Mary and went a little further to explore the highest point and reward with fantastic views and a lovely traverse trail back. And did the pinball single track descent - plus another lap off the petit saleve to get another trail we missed before that turned out to be ace ! We took kids on a section of our Tour du Mole to taste the great tails there . Which they loved😀 But we spotted another track heading in oppersite direction. So today we went back and tried a totally new trail on back of Le Mole - which was totally awersome - not steep - but lovely flowy single track . And can either have a longer technical single climb or a short push to get to start of it ! Great to have time to explore it more / both of us amazed we’d not ridden it before !! #ridethealps #neverstopexploring

Not taking life to seriously and time to ride as m

Not taking life to seriously and time to ride as much as can this week! Super weather and not really much work so easy to ride with Mary and get toy feet up! #oneupcomponents #ridethealps #alpinesingletrack

Then next day climb 2000m and bag a couple local p

Then next day climb 2000m and bag a couple local peaks - Dent Blanche and tête Bostan on way back ! All spikes used and every type of snow encountered- apart from powder ! Mostly ice /crust then slush - so hot as came down !😀👍

So nice to ride dry trails in shorts today in Febr

So nice to ride dry trails in shorts today in February!! 4 laps of the petite saleve near Geneva today with Mary . Show her the trails and finding some new ones too! All in primo riding condition too😀👍 #ridethealps

So nice to have some good weather and get out on d

So nice to have some good weather and get out on dry trails near Latringes above Evian - some easy family friend VTT routes and a cool trails practice area where Cammie can ride over his sister 👍😀#ridethealps

Finally winter project comes off Just in time as t

Finally winter project comes off Just in time as today dug the last of ice n snow off Pumptrack and tested the new bike ! Awesome the geometry is spot on😀👍 @selwyn-bikes Cammie loved his lockdown 2 conversion I did for him secretly before Christmas too ! Twice at Pumptrack today and had to leave before took out too many little kids ! Best early and late until the half term is over !

Lovely ride out today to test a new area for fat b

Lovely ride out today to test a new area for fat bikes ! Great views and nice route - just the Ride the Alps management team out again 😀👍 #fatbikefun #ridethealps

With so much heavy snow about - lockdown project 3

With so much heavy snow about - lockdown project 3 is coming along nicely 😀👍 My good friend Alex Selwyn is let me use his jig and teaching me the basics for brazing and filing . We designed the bike together - this one is gonna be a XL dirt jump style bike that I can ride 26” wheels- but raining a longer fork and seater seat pits angle so kids can ride it as a hardtail. The filling has to be precise to get joints as close fit as possible thém brazing is much easier. Alex’s is doing the tricky joints - but I’m doing the simple ones. This project uses up almost all my old 26” parts . Gotta get as much life outta them as I can ! So looking forward to hitting the awesome Pumptrack here in morillon as soon as this is finished and snow clears off the valley floor!! #oldsogsnewtricks #nevertooldtolearn #alwaysneedanotherbike #n=x+1 #ridethealps

The busy New Year week is over ! Back out with my

The busy New Year week is over ! Back out with my number 1 Fatbike buddy 😀👍 Very cold this morning and difficult to get layers right pedaling uphill - while not sweating or getting too cold - on soft snow / balancing not to break thru/keeping traction and not sweating ! Descent was a lot more fun - once layered up point down hill and no front brake! Only once OTB so not too bad 😀👍 #fatbikefun #ridethealps

Ski piste are closed to skiers- but that’s good

Ski piste are closed to skiers- but that’s good for us fat bikers 😀👍 had a few French groups the last few days ! Great fun on valley floor than one descent from morillon 1100 down to valley floor! Great fun!

Fatties out again this week ! But much fresh snow

Fatties out again this week ! But much fresh snow - so crunchy in places and ice then wet ! But managed a lap or two of the Pumptrack and did put old jumps on the bike track we built in lockdown1 . Plus last weekend we did mange a night all family in the igloo ! But cramped but we all squeeze in- even the cats came in for a while 😀👍

Well Im not exactly Danny MacAskill - ! But it’s

Well Im not exactly Danny MacAskill - ! But it’s not every day you get to ride off an igloo ! But at 50 and not wanting to stress the medical system with Covid excuss to play - a gental roll off us all I can do for now! The snow on the igloo is hard ice now too - set like concrete .

It’s hard to beat a ride up to Sixt on river val

It’s hard to beat a ride up to Sixt on river valley trails from home . Cold today and fatties working well but cold toes ! Shame there is no cafes open 😳 but nice to ride and be out for a spin😀👍 #ridethealps #fatbikefunnewmexico