Sylvain has a house in Uriage, 30 minutes from Grenoble and 1 hour away from half a dozain world known resorts in the Rhone-Alpes region.
So me and Ben left Paris by car to join the crew, making a few stops along the way. We first stopped in Dijon to buy mustard and eat fresh oysters with a good bottle of white Burgundy wine. We then followed our path driving 'la route des vins de Bourgogne". We did a little detour to Switzerland to visit Geneva for a few hours before driving back to France. We spent the night in Lyon at Ben's cousins. Next morning we picked up Brezina who was bringing me my new macbook pro from Montreal @ the airport in St-Exupery. We came back to Lyon to spend the afternoon and eat "un ptit bouchon Lyonais" before heading towards Grenoble. We finally got to destination, the weeks headquarters, a sweet little house in Uriage-les-Bains. During the week we rode 5 mountains, les Septs Laux, Les 2 Alpes, l'Alpe d'Huez, l'Alpe du Grand Cerf and Chamrousse.
All mountains were impressive, but the backountry riding on the glacier aux 2 Alpes and on the South face of l'Alpe du Grand Cerf were the best. Great sunny chilling week, with some adrenalizing moments, not even shadowed by a stomach flu epidemic, an electric box fire, electricity shortcut ... and much more. Next riding destination, Austria in 2 weeks.
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