After 10 days of being here, we finally got to go out and hit the piste! It cost us 15 euros each though as the season doesn’t officially start till next weekend and only a select few lifts were open. We were happy enough to just get our riding legs back on the blues and… Read more »
The view from our bedroom window for the next 5 months Well it’s been 10 days and 22 hours since we set off…and today is the first day the lifts are open! So the Mountain Maverick crew are heading out! I have just been on the old video chat with Lyle (used to work in… Read more »
So Ems, me, Dom and Mel headed to the ice hockey to support the local Morzine team against the Mont-Blanc team. We met up with another couple Rick and Helen who are friends of Dom and Mel’s, both seemed like lovely people and we will no doubt be riding with them at some point. The… Read more »
A full day off, and a lot of snow? Lets go ride! Well, we did, hoping that the rumours of a couple of lifts opening early were true, only to arrive and have our high hopes crushed when the lifts were all locked up 🙁 So we decided to head to Ardent and do a… Read more »
Well that was a suprise, woke up to see…a lot of snow fall…the previous photo was only 8 hours ago! WOOOOOO!
the view to the bus stop from our living room…notice the snow 🙂 Well we have been chilling out in Chalet Chambertin with the Mountain Mavericks team for a day now, and I just can’t wait to get started. The snow has just started falling heavily and we went to take a look at Chalet… Read more »
Our morzine season has just begun…well kinda…but look at the view from our temp accommodation…
Here are some images in a slideshow of our journey down, it was like driving on the same road for 7 hours except each hour was a different month. The drive itself was amazing, really nice country side to be driven through, no traffic and not too taxing. The ferry was pretty fun too…I can… Read more »
We can’t actually see the white cliffs due to the fact we are facing the wrong way, sat in the ferry queue. All good, arrived here in good time, although feeling pretty tired right now, and my android Blogger app thing won’t let me do pictures 🙁 405.5 miles travelled so far, one top up… Read more »
Up in time! Pepper just thought she would have one last hug, right before I make Ems pack the car. Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.5
…and so it begins, its 3 in the mornin and I’ve just crawled into bed. We want to set off for 9…you reckon we can do it? Place your bets now! 5 months of chalet hosting and Snowboarding here we come, watch out morzine… Sleep time Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.3
Grave and I got invited out to some downhill style trails in Settmurthy, so we decided to check them out. I say downhill type trails because I am guessing that downhill riders would find it a bit too smooth, so maybe its more of a freeride place…I dunno, we took the bikes anywho! Walking up… Read more »
After a night at the wakeboarding campsite, we put Ricks bike together and headed up to Stainburn. A mountain bike trail found near Harrogate with a red and a black loop. The only issue I have with Stainburn is that the loops are very short in comparrison to a lot of trail, but they are… Read more »
In the spirit of trying something new, we decided to try and organise a wakeboarding trip. We had been told it was much like snowboarding therefore I think it was inevitable that we would love it. Unfortunately due to the lack of money and the fact that trying this sport wasn’t cheap we only had… Read more »
For someone that has ridden a mountain bike for 6 – 7 years that may seem like an odd title for this post…but its true! I have only been riding trail centres with the man made trails or little bits of natural trails but never a 6 and a half hour epic ride. After watching… Read more »
Dalbeattie red route was never one of my favourite stanes, just because there was no real, mind blowing descents. However this trip has changed my mind slightly, thanks to Mad Mike and Grave Danger, two names that I probably shouldn’t have tried to keep up with! My lovely Marzocchi 55 ATA (2008)s were still back… Read more »
For those that end up reading this blog and do not know my whole back story, here it is in a nutshell* : Whilst at Uni in Carlisle I used to go down to the Sands Centre climbing wall, wearing skate shoes, I sucked at it, I gave up. That is my climbing history. This… Read more »
A good nights sleep and some bacon, some lovely sunshine and the welsh hills… a bit of a better start than the day before! Packing up the tent, getting 10 bikes out of 2 cars, repacking the cars with everything else and then heading down to the start of the Twrch Trail, all done quickly… Read more »
10 in the tent and the little one said…”are you awake?”Well, it wasn’t quite a water bed we were on but the ground definitely squelched under our floor/bed! I didn’t get much sleep and neither did a couple of others, thanks to the snorers, rain, wind, waterfalls near by and the rivers forming through our tent. Morning… Read more »
For some strange reason, these last few months have made me start to question my commitment to mountain biking, snowboarding, jackrabbitt, etc. I just seem to have lost the passion that I once had for the sport and surrounding culture, no apparent reason, other than maybe feeling slightly left behind after the whole collar bone… Read more »
