Morzine

Joe_Pineapples

Morning folks,
Myself and a few friends are off to Morzine in a few weeks and I'm looking for some advice on which trails to hit. We're not paticularly looking for full-on downhill action, but some fast, aggressive trails with plenty of variety and airtime would be ideal, think Glentress red route 'Spooky Wood' or Innerleithen 'Make Or Brake' type of stuff.

We are on a variety of all-mountain bikes, from my Shova through to a Commencal Meta 6, so between 5-6 inches of travel all round.

Cheers
Joe.

bomberesque

it's all pretty well marked and accessible tbh. There's a trail map available at the tourist office and there's loads on there to keep you busy. Being the alps, it's all pertty much fast aggressive trails (take spare tubes; you'll need them) so you won't be dissapointed. A guide will be able to show you more secret-special stuff but tbh I've been there twice and never ran out of marked trails to ride.

Have fun!

sampras38

Joe_Pineapples wrote:

Morning folks,
Myself and a few friends are off to Morzine in a few weeks and I'm looking for some advice on which trails to hit. We're not paticularly looking for full-on downhill action, but some fast, aggressive trails with plenty of variety and airtime would be ideal, think Glentress red route 'Spooky Wood' or Innerleithen 'Make Or Brake' type of stuff.

We are on a variety of all-mountain bikes, from my Shova through to a Commencal Meta 6, so between 5-6 inches of travel all round.

Cheers
Joe.

+1

I'm going out that way too in July for the first time, and will be having a crack at climbing the Joux Plane and Cole Du Columbiere. The TDF will be in the same region the week we're there and will be going through on stage 17.

Can't wait..;-)

paul.skibum

You have the choice in the PdS of following the map which tends to be the downhills or downhill lite stuff which as said above can be fast and flowy (watch the waterbars!) but can also be busy and covered in stutter bumps

or

try and locate some of the more technical stuff which tends to be more precarious, slow speed control oriented, hidden off the beaten trail.

Then there are the odd lines which fit both needs - Les gets woods are spotted with tight but flowing tracks off the dh courses (Golem on the Mont Cheries side was tough and bent my ankle but good). As are the woods to the side of the Plenney Avalanche cup course which for my mind is still one of the best.

If you get a wet day head to Les Gets and do the blue downhill no brakes - the soil gets so claggy it builds up on your tyres and slows you down a lot - it can be fun! On the other hand a dry day is even better!

Richard2118

When we went we did a copule of things to .

One of the group got a book on the area by bikefax which was really helpful and covers both downhill and xc scene.

we also followed the pasportes du soliel route that they use for the event, you can get the map and the passes from the lift offices and it is well worth it.

Also PDS web site gives you most of the main trails and marks them out for you