Mont Blanc Trails

Three country tour around the tallest massive of the Alps

The 4808 m high Mont Blanc is a challenge not only for mountaineers. Making a full circle with the bike around the Mont Blanc is one of the biggest adventures that the Alps have in store for mountain bikers. Long ascents on old military gravel roads and some of the nicest downhills in the Alps on breathtaking single-tracks are waiting for our nobby tyres at the border triangle of Italy, Switzerland, and France. Seeing that gigantic mountain, the highest in the Alps, in a different angle every day is an absolute highlight - rock crags alternate with jagged glaciers, contrasted by juicy green pastures. Nine passes are to be mastered; two of them lie above 2500 m.
Starting off Les Contamines-Montjoie the route leads over Col de Voza (1653 m), a short but tricky pass, into the valley of Chamonix. Superb single-tracks take us across vineyards and apricot plantations in the Swiss Wallis. On old trading and smuggling routes we soon reach Val Ferret in Italy. The biker's heart will rejoice when beholding the single-tracks aside the glaciers of the impressive east face of Mont Blanc. The route leads on to Bourg St-Maurice in the Isère Valley, over lonely gravel roads through original, flower-decorated villages, past the Beaufortain to the western range of the Mont Blanc massif. Col du Joly (1989 m) offers the most beautiful views of the ice cap looming 2800 m above our heads. At the end of the tour we cruise down on diverse tracks into the valley.

 

 

Difficulty level:

This tour is manageable for every biker with a good fitness and who can control his or her bike even in technically challenging terrain. You should also be ready to push your bike once in a while over alpine passages.

• Steep ascents of up to 1200 vertical meters
• Technically challenging downhills on steep single-tracks with obstacles
• Very steep downhills on rough gravel tracks
• An average of 1375 vertical meters and 40 km every day
• The toughest stage: 1820 vertical meters uphill and about 1100 vertical meters downhill on 41 km

Services included:

• Shuttle service from and to Chamonix station
• Accommodation for 7 nights, half-board
• 6 days of guided bike tour
• Luggage transport
• Catering
• Chair lift to Col de Balme

On extra charge:

• Shuttle service from and to Geneva airport
• Single supplement

Options for the free time:

• Gondola ride on Aiguille du Midi (3842 m)
• Extension in Les Contamines-Montjoie or Chamonix
• Journey on to Provence, Cote d'Azure or to Piemont in Italy