Je vous emmène dans un couloir, pour vous faire découvrir le monde du ski de pente raide. Le couloir est très connu en Haute Tinée, le couloir de la Raie des Fesses (et oui, c'est bien son nom). J'ai choisi de le descendre au crépuscule pour saisir l'ambiance particulière de ce lieu. J'ai d'abord effectué la montée dans le couloir au piolets/crampons pour vérifier son état. Il manque de neige, il est plus étroit en partie supérieur que d'habitude, mais ça reste skiable. Quelques caractéris...

Joris Ryf (SUI) is the winner of the Snow Bike Festival UCI Marathon and Overall Race. Janine Schneider (GER) wins UCI women’s category and Marion Fromberger (GER) claims the victory in the women’s overall category. 140 riders out of 16 nations participated in the fifth edition of the Snow Bike Festival. Snow and weather conditions were outstanding, and the atmosphere created by all the participants made the event a huge success. On Friday, riders tackled a 19km afternoon race. What seemed to...

140 riders out of 16 nations participated in the fifth edition of the Snow Bike Festival. Snow and weather conditions were outstanding, and the atmosphere created by all the participants made the event a huge success.Sunday was loaded with action. Riders got up early that morning to catch the cable car to the top of Rinderberg, which the Bergbahnen especially opened 1 hour before skiers could use it. After the start at more than 2000 meters above sea level at -10 degrees, participants had the...

140 riders out of 16 nations participated in the fifth edition of the Snow Bike Festival. Snow and weather conditions were outstanding, and the atmosphere created by all the participants made the event a huge success. On day 2, riders saw clear blue skies when gathering on the start line in front of Park Gstaad. The hardest challenge was lying ahead with a full marathon distance of 60 km. However, the overwhelming experience in the picturesque Swiss Alps compensated the riders for the hard ef...

140 riders out of 16 nations participated in the fifth edition of the Snow Bike Festival. Snow and weather conditions were outstanding, and the atmosphere created by all the participants made the event a huge success. On Friday, riders tackled a 19km afternoon race. What seemed to be an easy ride at first, turned into “one of the toughest 20 k’s I’ve ever ridden” (Brett King, Snow Bike Festival participant), mainly due to the combination of meters in altitude and the snow. Start was at the Pa...

Starting on Rinderberg at 2’000 meters altitude, with a downhill of more than 1’000 meters in altitude taking place on a ski slope, the riders experienced a special highlight of the Snow Bike Festival right at the beginning. In the picturesque valleys and mountains around Gstaad Nadine Rieder (GER) and Ramon Lauener (SUI) claimed the overall victory of Snow Bike Fesitval’s 5th edition. Canadian Raphael Gagne Took second place, while David List (GER) completed the podium in the men’s competiti...

A la recherche de la poudre 3 jours après une chute de neige de 2 cm à La Norma et Aussois le 12 janvier 2019

The Snow Bike Festival is a 4-day mountain biking stage race that takes place in the snow covered Swiss Alps. The event has seen competitors from across the globe congregate in the stunning region of Gstaad (SUI), creating a genuinely international atmosphere. The world’s first UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) race on snow sees professional mountain bikers and aspiring amateurs from around the world head to the trails and slopes around Gstaad, to compete in one of the most unique mountain...

Session poudreuse aux Arcs après la chute du 2 janvier 2018.