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Looking for help and inspiration for mountainbiking vacations for trail / all-mountain riding – what is the easiest lift assisted area with the most natural trails that you know of? Please share!
I usually go travelling for about a week every summer with a few friends. For the past 7 years we have gone to Morzine where we ride the easiest downhill tracks and the red and black 'XC' trails. Those are great. This year we went to Nemi in Italy. The hills there were great, but no lifts or shuttles means way too much of the vacation was spend going uphill.
We like to stay in one place and then go riding, not looking to go bikepacking (even though that also looks awesome).
A few of us are still on hardtails, I ride a Kona Honzo. It's been fine for Morzine, save for the friggin' brake bumps. No one has more than 130mm suspension, but we ride stuff that some probably wouldn't recommend for those bikes (we just do it slowly and poorly).
I'd love to find other areas that offer more all-mountain/trail riding – most of the downhill and freeride stuff in places like Morzine or Saalbach-Hinterglemm is a bit too hardcore to be fun for me – but with lifts.
It'd be great if it was in continental Europe as that's easiest (we're Danish and we usually drive), but suggestions for UK locations are welcome. Extra points for mountain views.
Thank you!
Moab?
Derby TAS? (world class apparently)
Rotorua
Tarantaise valley and surrounds- Les Arcs, Sainte Foy, Tignes, Val D'isere, La Thuile, Pila, and the Beaufortain. Amazing trails, less bikeparky and more #enduroey, less hammered, good lift network. Only downside is it's not so easy to navigate so guiding is probably a better idea (I've been to Sainte Foy 3 times, but even then I couldn't find many of the trails again and I definitely couldn't deal with their van uplift without a guide!)
Looking for help and inspiration for mountainbiking vacations for trail / all-mountain riding – what is the easiest lift assisted area with the most natural trails that you know of? Please share!
When? Most of the European ski areas will be getting ready for winter now.
Otherwise Riviera Bike in Italy. You'll still need to climb, but you get a helpful hand via a van and trailer first thing most mornings. Riding is properly epic too, in a natural sense. Failing that head to Spain this time of year.
Check the Bahn Tours in Davos and St Moritz. Dedicated bike hotels, accommodation, breakfast and left pass in the one reasonable for Switzerland price... Fire pits and BBQ areas including firewood for c food cost control...
Big mountains, good trails.
Could it be guided (and van uplift) instead? That might open up loads of other options
Thank you for all the input, I appreciate it! Will get googling
Pimpmaster Jazz: I was thinking for Summer, just planning next year early
benp1: Haven't tried that, but open to the idea
Innerleithen. Has everything you want, and you can also get great haggis.
I'm not very hardcore - I'm not a fan of my wheels leaving the ground! But I found Saalbach to be a great area, I did most of it with my 15yo who whilst being confident can be cautious and not the most skilled bike handler in the world.
It isn't particularly natural though, most of the trails have been man made.
With us? 😀
Ainsa in the Pyrenees. Great, marked, trails. I've done then on my hardtail.I think there's a company there that will do uplift.