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Last available dates to ride Chamonix to Zermatt this year in September
Published by Jamie Carr March 9, 2010 in General. 0 Comments
If you want to ride our fantastic Chamonix to Zermatt trip this year then you better act fast as we have only a 2 week window of opportunity remaining from the 1st-19th September. July and August are now fully booked. Drop us an email to ensure you don’t miss out!
Up and Running Eiger trip 1st-8th August - 3 places left!
Published by Jamie Carr March 7, 2010 in General. 0 Comments
We have 5 people booked onto our Eiger Sanction trip from the 1st-8th August. This trip is definitely running. The more people that book up, the cheaper it will be. We have 3 places left so get in touch if you want to join the trip.
2 riders looking for others to join an Alpine Singletrack Week in early August
Published by Jamie Carr January 22, 2010 in General. 0 Comments
We have 2 male riders looking to form a larger group to ride our Alpine Singletrack Week from August 1st-8th. Get in touch if you are keen!
1 or 2 riders looking to form a group to ride the Tour du Mont Blanc in June
Published by Jamie Carr December 8, 2009 in General. 0 Comments
We have 2 riders who want to ride the Tour du Mont Blanc in June 2010. Get in touch if you’d like to join them!
Five riders now looking to form a group to ride the Eiger Sanction in early August 2010
Published by Jamie Carr October 28, 2009 in General. 0 Comments
We now have five mountain bikers - 4 men and 1 woman- who would like to ride our Eiger Sanction trip in early August next year as part of a group. They are looking for 2 or 3 more riders. Please get in touch at info@ridethealps.com if you are also a single rider or small group of riders who want to form a larger group to do this trip.
Changes to Ride the Alps for the 2010 Season
Published by Jamie Carr October 27, 2009 in General. 0 Comments
Hi there,
As the memories of this summer’s mountain biking holidays begin to fade, it’s time to start planning for next year’s adventures! We’ll be running things a little differently next season in order to make Ride the Alps a more cost effective business and to make it cheaper for you to come on holiday with us :o)
All of our usual fabulous holidays will be on offer - Chamonix to Zermatt, The Eiger Sanction, Alpine Singletrack Weeks and Weekends, Roam in the Roam and the Tour du Mont Blanc. The main difference to previous years is that you will pick your own dates. No pre-fixed dates will be advertised. There will also be more choice within each trip. You can decide yourself whether or not you want to have full van support including airport transfers or if you want to tough it out on a self-supported ride where you carry your own gear. We will arrange and organize everything as before. There will be a fixed guiding and admin fee for each trip that will be split between the number of riders and paid in advance. You will pay both for your accommodation and your chosen level of van support directly to the providers during the trip. This means, for example, that you’ll be able to ride Chamonix to Zermatt for as little as 599* euro per person in 2010! This approach is more suited to groups of mountain bikers but we will run a trip with just one or two people. Obviously it’s going to be expensive for a single rider or a couple, however, we will put people in touch with one another if we get a few inquiries for the same trip from individuals so that you can share costs.
All the trips we run are currently advertised on our website but we’ll be updating the content over the next few weeks to reflect the changes we’ve just described. We’ll also be uploading all the photos from our 2009 season so you can see for yourself the kind of fantastic riding we were doing this year! Keep checking for updates here http://www.ridethealps.com/holidays/
In the meantime, if you have any questions about any of our holidays or if you already know you want to ride one of our trips and want to reserve your dates then please get in touch by email info@ridethealps.com or phone on +33 450 870061. We’re very happy to talk through any of our holidays with you and if you let us know numbers and what level of support you want, we can give you a quote right away.
We hope to see you out here in the Alps in 2010.
Best wishes,
Mary & Jamie
Ride the Alps
* This estimated price is based on a group of 8 riders without van support and airport transfers
Late Cancellation - 3 places now available on Cham to Zermatt.2
Published by Jamie Carr June 26, 2009 in General. 0 Comments
Due to a late cancellation we have now 3 places to offer on our popular Chamonix to Zermatt trip-2, from 24th July to 2nd August. Perfect timing for summer holidays for teachers and parents ! It’s a great chance to get in on one of the best Mountain biking trips in the Alps. Email or call for more details or any questions.
Mini Tour du MtBlanc - a close shave !
Published by Jamie Carr June 21, 2009 in General. 0 Comments
Fine weather started and finished this mini TMB, but a damp day in the middle had us running down a 3,000 ft descent in rain and luminated at times by odd flash of lighting !
The first day all went well, parting with a few Euros to stimulate the Chamonix bike eccoemy, for those turning up with 5yr old rear mechs, and bash-rings for those that wanted to keep there big rings with same number of teeth. Easy option with the lifts, meant more time for single-track descents, skill sessions on steep descending, switch-backs and even time at the skate park working on step-ups and hops — all skills learnt today where all used to great effect in the next 2 days!
It was a case of the wrong trousers for Simon on day 2 as his 3/4 soaked up twice their weight in water! We were eventually allowed into the refugee that night after washing off the hillside in the stream.
However it was on day 3 that the closest shave was for Bob and the marmot. On the fastest descent of the trip at over 30mph on lose rock, Bob got between a startled young marmot and the safety of his burrow.
The marmot thought he was quick enough to get across the track to his hole but Bob on his Slayer were too quick and the Marmot ran between his wheels! Amazingly even though being run over by the Vegetarin biker and with a Maxxis high roller tattoted across his back he still made it to his burrow alive in one peice 
and will probally not underestimate the speed of an adrealin fuelled MTBiker again !
The final climb took us to a most wonderful view point and a fantastic descent, filled with evey kind of stlye of singel-track, with fast flowy sections, steep tech, snow covered even, and of course woody rooty, rocky, switch back tastic, descent into the trees to test and use all those new switch-back skills to the max! Just brillaint…..