One month, four seasons
June 20, 2011Mountain Biking Standard
What a month! The BikeVillage season is well and truly underway and we’re all feeling buff because we’ve spent 3 weeks clearing fallen trees with trail saws. It all started when, in just 48hrs, the weather went from 27 degrees and sunny to a 20cm dump of fresh snow in Landry, on June 1st!
After the usual excited snow mountain biking sortie, happiness waned a bit as we realised that all the leaf-laden deciduous trees had buckled and broken under the weight of the snow leaving us with one mammoth trail clearing mission on our hands. The first week of BV was spent with us uplifting to trail heads every night, all over les Arcs, La Plagne and the Beaufortain, after the days riding to clear the next days’ singletrack. Still, good for the moral fibre and all that!
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| Sun, snow and dust at the top of Magic Carpet |
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| Life behind bars in the Tarentaise Valley |
Happily, normal weather has now resumed with a return to some blue skies and dry trails. Long live summer! Next on the BV agenda is the arrival of our custom orange ‘wife-beater’ (husband-beaters also available!) vests. Photos to follow shortly…
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