Chamonix Bike Rides
Save £££ and travel in June or September for crowd free trails and superb prices!
Early Season bikers will find excellent trail riding, a peaceful mountain, sunshine and crowd free tracks!
The lifts open from June 6th and will expand your ride area. We offer some great holiday deals for these early June dates. The full Chamonix lift system opens between June 25th until Sept 6th.
An overview of the riding on offer outside peak season is detailed below:
Chamonix
We offer Holidays in Chamonix for Mountain biking from June 6th to Sept 20th . The biking is suitable for all levels of rider with an average level of fitness. The Lifts open on June 6th which offer some excellent rides, however there are a great many excellent rides that do not require lifts. See just some of our rides below, and an overview of riding open outside of the main lift operating times.:
Examples of some of our rides:
Cham' Valley Ride
Servos Circuit
Les Houches
Flegere to Chalet Floria
Flegere to Brevent
Chamonix Trails (June 7-Sept 7)
Le Brevent and Le Tour lifts are open from the 6th of June to 19th of September. Here is an overview of rides open in this period. More riding is open from Jun 26 to Sept 6
Brevent DH
1. Sentier de Guard, very rocky & rooty, tight switchbacks DH single track (high inter / advanced) 6kms (¾ to 1 hour)
2. Charlanon, longer run rocky DH single track with very tight switch backs (high inter / advanced) 8kms (¾ to 1 hour)
3. Fire road run, DH, fast loose gravel fire road with tight switch backs (Inter) 5kms
Le Tour
1, Le Tour Home run DH Fire road, fast fire road with tight switch backs 2 kms beginner /inter ¾ hour
2. Col de Possets, Free ride trail with easy fire road, small climb and steep rocky single track DH with tight switch backs 7 kms 1 hour
3. XC Freeride into Vallorcines easy short climbs and DH (high beginner / inters). Catch train back. 20 kms 1 day ride
4. Cham valley ride: Petit balcon Sud and Nord, trails on the valley floor, intermediate XC trail with technical parts on undulating mountain paths with rocks, roots and streams. Easy climbs, harder climbs, Lots of DH. Can make as long or short as you like from 3kms to 25kms Something for everyone (beginner to advanced). See Link: Cham' Valley Ride
Again a multitude of other XC courses can be found if riders have an OS map, and a sense of adventure!
Chamonix Lift Opening
| 7 June | 14 June | 27 June - 31 Aug | until 7 Sept | until 20 Sept |
| Brevant area | Brevant area | Brevant area | Brevant area | Brevant area |
| Le Tour area | Le Tour area | Le Tour area | Le Tour area | |
| Balme area | Balme area | Balme area | ||
| Flegere area | Flegere area | |||
| Grand Montets |
The Aguille Midi and Glacier Train are open throughout for sight-seeing and hill / glacier walking
