Portes du Soleil area on the French-Swiss border
Portes du Soleil from Morgins over the Portes d’Hiver and Col de Chesery. I’ve done this trail a few times but I think only in the spring and autumn. Yesterday was a bit autumnal and needed to put a light merino layer on to keep the wind off. I’ll mention that I’m wearing a Simond […]
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It’s hard to tell this time of year how much snow will be left at 2000m. But, taking an optimistic view I thought I’d try this route which is one of my favorites locally. It turned out there was a lot of snow in places and I probably ought to have turned around. The worst
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Great autumn day in the Portes du Soleil. Starting from Morgins and over the Portes de l’Hiver. It’s not looking like winter up there right now though!
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Another short tour over in the Portes du Soleil starting from Morgins. I’d ridden some sections before doing a circuit of the Portes du Soleil. It’s autumn so the colors are amazing and with the lifts not running it’s all very quiet.
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The Col de Cou can be seen from the window of our chalet and would probably be on the line of the shortest path to Morzine and the Portes du Soleil ski area. I started up from Champéry with a steep climb up a loose track reminding me that I needed some new tyres. It’s
I’d had an idea to go and do this and been tempted to use my non-electric bike as it’s mostly downhill. But, I’ve converted that to a 1x and I’m waiting for a new chainring, the thought of 6000m of descent with the chain popping off wasn’t appealing really! It’s easily possible to do this
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