Walter left this morning and Bucky and I slept in a little
later. We walked to various bike shops
around town to get parts and pieces that had broken off his bike while in
transit. We scored gold at ZeroG bike
shop and got everything he needed. We
finished fixing up his bike and making some minor fit modifications to my bike
and started riding around 15:00. The
trail we were headed to is called the Chamonix Classic and is described as a
2hr ride with a 5/10 difficulty for climbing and 4/10 difficulty for
descent. We rode up to a town called Le
Lavancher on Le Petite Nord trail and it was very steep and very hot. I was sweating quite profusely. Then it is a short descent before you start
to climb again up towards Argentiere.
The ascent to Argentiere was also fairly difficult, but I didn’t have to
step off my bike like I did for the climb to Le Lavancher. When we got to Argentiere I was still feeling
good so instead of turning around to begin the descent on Le Petite Sud trail
we continued up to the town of Le Tour.
This climb was brutal. Really
steep, really rooted, and brutally hot. After
a short descent to Le Tour we turned around and rode back up and down to
Argentiere. On the way back down I
started to get a hollow empty feeling in my stomach and I knew I needed to eat
as soon as possible. As soon as I got off my bike in front of a little cafe my legs started shaking. I knew I needed sugar fast so I got some orange juice and a sandwich. After a brief lunch break my body had
recovered and we continued the descent back to Cham. Le Petite Sud was a very fun trail with lots
of rocky and rooty sections as well as some burner-fast smooth straightaways. The whole trip ended up taking four and a half hours and I would have rated it an 8/10 for climbing difficulty. There is one trail in the book that is already an 8/10. I'm not sure I even want to know what that's like!
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| Recovering with a sandwich and orange juice. |
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