trail_advisor

06/07/2025

Sleepy heads. We are about to do the craziest mass start race in the world …… think Redbull Foxhunt and multiply it by 10. Ken is in the main Mega race I could only manage the amateur race as I had a nightmare qualifying. He starts before me but my mission is to chase him down!! (Won’t happen!!!) See you on the other side.

04/07/2025

How it’s going. This pic from practice yesterday is just after the start line of the main race. It starts at an altitude of 3330m and descends through the glacier and traverses the top of Alpe D’Huez dropping in to Allemond 22km later. The pros will do it in about 40/45 min. I’ll be lucky to catch my flight on Monday.

03/07/2025

S**z got real this morning!!! This place is nuts. .quinn1

02/07/2025

Bike maintenance

02/07/2025

Day 2 in megavalanche mode. We overdid it yesterday so we’re looking for a more chilled day today. We decided to do last half day of mega trail and full quali run. The quali run takes the below average punter approx 25min!! Next level hardship. Rear Brake failure and a broken spoke created a bit more anxiety for me! Few pints and a good nights rest. Plan is to do top of mega tomorrow AM.

24/06/2025

Packed the big bike away this evening. In preparation for next week! It’s been on the bucket list and when we decided back in October to do it, it’s hard to believe it has now come around. Joining me is and .quinn1 we set off on Monday and will race the following weekend. Lots of anxiety and checklists to make sure we don’t forget anything! Thanks to Alfie in for getting the Megatower ready to race. I’ll try keep updating and hopefully will remember to hit record and have enough battery in the cam to last the entire race!! Heavy breathing included!!

01/06/2025

Enduro youth assessment. Getting the next batch of enduro shredders ready to race and try follow the footsteps of .
.ie

18/05/2025

wrapped up for another year! Finished off today in for .
It’s amazing to see a community of mtb-ers pull together and get the trail back rideable after what was a huge blow. The storm completely decimated the forest but the lads have a great number of trails reopened and ready for shredding. Thanks for having me.

04/05/2025

Great day on the hill. Good vibes / good weather / good people. I was the track seeep for the last round of the “Winter” League. Helped with the timing and admin too.

09/07/2024

Great local initiative.

05/07/2024

30/06/2024

Ah here…… wasn’t looking forward to racing this at all… started on s3. The toughest / wettest! Did 2 runs then went over and Did 1 and 2 twice. Nailed them so decided I’d go back and try 3 again. Started it off great and was thingking “this is deadly” until the steep chute before the fire road… made a mess of it and otb’d …..was about to hang up my boots but decided to go up and try again. Nailed it…. Was very happy and very surprised to arrive in and see my time put my in P3. Stoked. Thanks to .
This stuff doesn’t happen without the hard work that goes in to organising and creating such an amazing affordable series. Grassroots. You’ve been great. I’d also like to thank cos these posts make her morto. And of course for liking me.