New BC (classic) Freeride course on line!

Just back from a 4 day cycling trip from Chamonix to Nice with GPM10.

the weather was excellent for the trip and as we are now into the inter season in September the roads were exceptionally quiet making for a great trip and some quality riding.

The air is getting noticably cooler out here now, the snow is creeping down the mountain and sticking around and the Glaciers have that winter fresh whiteness about them. The Autumn colours are on their way and you can almost smell the winter approaching.

I've just put on a new course at the begining of April.

Due to popular demand, I have now added another classic BC Freeride course from the 4th to the 8th of April. The idea behind the classic BC Freeride course is riding, riding and more riding, so check out the web site at www.mcnabsnowboarding.com and go to the courses page for more info and to make a booking.

We now have about 16 spaces available on courses for this winter so if you are planing on joining one of our weeks then fill out the relevent booking form and send it in to Ruth asap.

A lot of you have been taking advantage of the 15% off Jones Snowboards deal through the TSA so a lot of you should be powder hungry this coming season. I'm getting very excited about riding the new Flagship with its big mountain freeride shape, design and feel and also looking forwards to getting out on the Solution splitboard and exploring all the possibilities that this mode of BC access will open up for snowboarding. Yep, very excited indeed!

Anyway, I leave this afternoon for another bike trip to Nice. This time we start with the ascent of the road up to Aples d' Huez which was made famous by the Tour de france and is I suppose thee classic alpine hill climb for road cycling. We will then ride through the Alpes following the tour des Grandes Alpes route finishing once more in Nice on the Promenade des Anglais right on the sea front. Following this I head over to Biarritz on the West coast from where we'll be riding back across to the Cote d' azure through the Pyrenees which should be beautiful at this time of year and which have just seen the passing of the Vuelta d' Espania cycling tour.

My legs are starting to feel cycling fit again after a busy period of guiding off the bike and up in the peaks of Chamonix. I broke the cranks off my bike last week which is either a testimont to my leg strength or just a show of my bad maintenance skills, I suspect unfortunately it is the latter and fortunately the incident occurred once we had arrived in the city of Nice and so I could scoot to the sea front and the hotel.

Ok, I'll be away now until the end of the month so in the mean time start making your winter fitness preperations, get those squats going and get out on your bike or running so there's none of that, 'I was going to get fit' excuses this winter. Ruth has also reminded me to inform you that we'll be away towards the end of October for 10 days (holiday!) so during this period the office will be closed (we'll post more info for this nearer the time).

Right, back to it!

All is good in Chamonix!

Neil.