Shuttles.

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Loam surfing in the promised land.


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That's an awesome picture!

No guides, and only rode with ourselves. Mostly just a lot of staring at maps over the winter. Some strava stalking as well. A lot of the stuff in that zone is actually on trailforks.

For...

A bit of a road climb to get away from the bike park.

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Then a couple miles of rolly traversing. At times pretty...

Transferred over to Meribel for the second week. Meribel's big on hearts.

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The Courcheval altiport, which you...

Got a quick shuttle bump up to an old fort above Bourg Saint Maurice.
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It's about 4k' down to town. About half way...

Hopped back over the Atlantic, but a few more Europe pics:

The Europeans do shuttle busses in style. Caught a bus up to the French / Italy border.
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Got out of the bike park for a more pedally ride. Shuttle bump up to plan de la sassiere, then ride back down to Bourg. A rolling traverse for a while, and then a big descent at the end. Insane...

We're staying in Bourg Saint Maurice. All the of the riding (and pics) are from Les Arcs. Mostly lift served stuff that's outside of the official bike park. Most of it's on trailforks. Lots of...

It's most definitely better in Europe.

Day 2 in the bag.

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Day 1 in euro land.

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Is his handlebar mounted upside down?

(Also, I'm fairly envious of your slabby loamy goodness right now)

On my way to riding...

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No idea if it works, but that's a cool looking feature.

That's a fucking cool looking trail. Love those odd, outside of the box trails that people build.

*BC interior snickers at the "steep" trails south of the border*

You'd at least bounce a few times on the way down. Makes the final impact less painful.

Final resting spot. About 10" from being a lot worse.

We told him not to crash there, but Eluder never listens.
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Nice! Yeah, I guess Finale paid to get the enduro world series to come to town, starting around 8 years ago. Since then, it sounds like it just gets busier every year. A guy was saying that, on...

Spent 11 days riding around the France / Italy border in the maritime Alps, basically doing a semi-circle around Monaco. Started in Sospel France, then to Molini Italy, then down to the coast in San...

Nice! We did it Sunday. And yeah, one of my favorites - probably some of my favorite sections of alpine 7.

Yup, all clear, and the wire descent is running pretty good. For the most part, not too brushy.

Got my annual-ish napa to wire ride in, in honor of eluder's birthday. It was hot. And smokey. But at least a little less hot and less smokey up high.
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Damn smarty. Heal up!



That's an awesome picture!

Yeah, I still don't get how he crashed - he's usually so dialed and analytical. He'd taken a run in before he hit it, and seemed like he was good to go. But something obviously went wrong. I guess...

Yeah, I was the one he was following when he crashed. Super shitty situation. I'm still not sure what went wrong - he's a really good rider.

We were on Spooky Pete's at Spencer, near...

Jason?

(I haven't heard of anyone getting broken on the lakeside jumps. They're not open to the public yet, so just friends and employees up there at the moment).

Got to go check out the new bike park being built in Lakeside (Montana) - Legacy Bike Park. It's gonna be rad up there. So far there's 5 trails in the works (the trails are ~70% done), all shuttle...

Holy shit.

At least now I'm less bummed that I couldn't make it over there this weekend.

Looks like an Amp B2. Probably from ~'93. If it's in good shape and still mostly stock, I bet it'd go for a couple grand.

Edit: correction - it's a Mongoose Amplifier, which is a re-badged Amp B2

I guess that depends if we're talking tent, or hard sided camper with a heater. But yeah, I checked the weather there. Not real warm.

shitty.

With the very significant caveat that I've never ridden there, it's a bit more of a drive from you, and I have no idea what the weather looks like, I've heard Ely Nevada actually has some...

bump down to Vegas? Bootleg is fun for a day.

Right on. Yeah, if nothing else, I think Wire is in better shape right now, so that was probably a good call. That bottom bit of Wire where you can haul ass is super fun.

Nice. You go down Wire? Or over to Bond?

That's a great ride up there.

Yesterday evening.

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When was that? It was all clear ~2 weeks ago.

More from the Alps

Grivola on the left, Mont Blanc in the middle, Matterhorn on the right.

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A few more from yurp. Went up and over mount Chaligne. A shuttle bump to the top of the pavement meant we pedalled about 3500ft up, pushed up another 700ft or so, then descended about 7200ft down...

Ha! Those cows come outa nowhere!

But yes, I'll be keeping my mouth closed. So far, so good.

The euros have some nice scenery.
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Bear grass explosions in a burn from a couple years ago.




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Yup - we rode everything at bootleg. Mostly shuttled, but we pedalled a bit too. Great trails; a bit of everything.

Checked out some new-ish trails in Kimberley. Fun stuff up there.

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^^^ that's rad.

A quick one to Canada before winter.

Oberti's failure is back there somewhere - Jumbo is just out of view.

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You can fluff, but you're not fooling anyone.

Was there a tectonic uplift that I missed? Last I checked, boise was around 8000 feet lower than the top of burro. Climbing's easier with air.

But Boise's not that great. Come to Montana...