This Saturday, over their breakfasts, the people of the UK got to read about where's great for skiing and winters-sports...and we are in there!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/oct/26/skiing-winter-sports-snowboarding-resorts
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Monday, October 29, 2012
MountainBug in the Press!
The Guardian, is a national UK newspaper, which every week has a "Readers Tips" travel section.
This Saturday, over their breakfasts, the people of the UK got to read about where's great for skiing and winters-sports...and we are in there!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/oct/26/skiing-winter-sports-snowboarding-resorts
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This Saturday, over their breakfasts, the people of the UK got to read about where's great for skiing and winters-sports...and we are in there!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/oct/26/skiing-winter-sports-snowboarding-resorts
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Tour de France 2013
This morning the Tour de France 2013 route was announced at a Press Conference in Paris.
After teasing us all with speeches and an excellent montage film of the highlights of the 2012 Tour (is it just us who still get goosebumps watching Mark Cavendish win on the Champs Elysees and Wiggo take the crown?), the route was announced.
For the first time in years, the 100th Tour de France will be exclusively in Franc. It will begin in Corsica, before heading to Nice for its mainland tour and heading to the Pyrenees unusually early.
The two Pyrenean routes are Stage 8 from Ax 3 Domaines and then towards us for Stage 9.
Stage 9 on Sunday 7 July, goes frrom Saint Gironnes to Bagneres de Bigorre, which is a 45 minute drive from Bareges. It is a relentless stage, with five climbs during the 165km route.
Therefore, our Tour de France guided cycling week this year will begin with a bang on Sunday 7 July, as we head cycle over the cols to Bagneres de Bigorre, ready to watch the pros as they cycle over their stage finish.
As well as our Tour de France guided cycling week, we're also offering our week long cycling holiday from the 13 to 20 July. This Classic Cols week allows you to cycle some of the famous Pyrenean Tour de France routes and Cols. Alternatively, if you're short on time, come and join us for our cycling long weekend, from the 22 - 25 June.
Useful sites
We've been looking at these sites and their commentary on the route.
http://www.teamsky.com/article/0,27290,17553_8190984,00.html
http://www.itv.com/tourdefrance/news/2013-tour-de-france-route-revealed/
After teasing us all with speeches and an excellent montage film of the highlights of the 2012 Tour (is it just us who still get goosebumps watching Mark Cavendish win on the Champs Elysees and Wiggo take the crown?), the route was announced.
For the first time in years, the 100th Tour de France will be exclusively in Franc. It will begin in Corsica, before heading to Nice for its mainland tour and heading to the Pyrenees unusually early.
The two Pyrenean routes are Stage 8 from Ax 3 Domaines and then towards us for Stage 9.
Stage 9 on Sunday 7 July, goes frrom Saint Gironnes to Bagneres de Bigorre, which is a 45 minute drive from Bareges. It is a relentless stage, with five climbs during the 165km route.
As well as our Tour de France guided cycling week, we're also offering our week long cycling holiday from the 13 to 20 July. This Classic Cols week allows you to cycle some of the famous Pyrenean Tour de France routes and Cols. Alternatively, if you're short on time, come and join us for our cycling long weekend, from the 22 - 25 June.
Useful sites
We've been looking at these sites and their commentary on the route.
http://www.teamsky.com/article/0,27290,17553_8190984,00.html
http://www.itv.com/tourdefrance/news/2013-tour-de-france-route-revealed/
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Grand Tourmalet ski resort - latest news
The Grand Tourmalet (Bareges-La Mongie) ski resort is scheduled to open on the 24 November 2012.
In preparation, NPY (the company who own the lifts and pistes) have made even more improvements to the resort:
See you on the slopes!
In preparation, NPY (the company who own the lifts and pistes) have made even more improvements to the resort:
- there have been works on the Beaute and Marmotte pistes, including 42 additional snow-cannons
- this means most of the on-piste skiing is now covered by cannons
- two old-button lifts at La Laquette have been replaced with a new beginner magic carpet
- this means beginners can get up the four-man lift and have more areas to practice in before taking the green or blue piste back down to Tournaboup.
See you on the slopes!
Friday, October 12, 2012
End of season
The summer season is now over and autumn has truly arrived.
We had two different trips running for our last week of the season - one in the French High Pyrenees and one in the Spanish Pyrenees in Aragon.
Despite what looked like a shaky start with some rain, both trips had fantastic sunshine and our "bring hat and gloves" warnings seemed a bit doom and gloom in retrospect.
We're now writing our end of season round up newsletter. If you'd like to receive it, please visit our website and sign up to it.
As the last of our guests left, the weather took a cold turn. The sheep and cows have been brought down from the mountains and are grazing in the lower meadows. The autumn lambs and calves are happily trotting around the fields, as the leaves turn golden brown, and birds of prey are hopefully circling near them. Because there is more moisture in the air, we are seeing fantastic low cloud formations, with banks of fluffy cloud suspended in the valleys.The peaks are getting dustings of snow already, which isn't melting as the freezing line keeps dropping.
We're already taking bookings for the winter season (and summer next year!) for ski accommodation, snow-shoeing, ski-touring and off-piste.
Enjoy some of our off-season autumn photos and we'll keep you up to date with MountainBug news throughout the off period, as well as answering our phones and emails.
We had two different trips running for our last week of the season - one in the French High Pyrenees and one in the Spanish Pyrenees in Aragon.
Despite what looked like a shaky start with some rain, both trips had fantastic sunshine and our "bring hat and gloves" warnings seemed a bit doom and gloom in retrospect.
We're now writing our end of season round up newsletter. If you'd like to receive it, please visit our website and sign up to it.
As the last of our guests left, the weather took a cold turn. The sheep and cows have been brought down from the mountains and are grazing in the lower meadows. The autumn lambs and calves are happily trotting around the fields, as the leaves turn golden brown, and birds of prey are hopefully circling near them. Because there is more moisture in the air, we are seeing fantastic low cloud formations, with banks of fluffy cloud suspended in the valleys.The peaks are getting dustings of snow already, which isn't melting as the freezing line keeps dropping.
We're already taking bookings for the winter season (and summer next year!) for ski accommodation, snow-shoeing, ski-touring and off-piste.
Enjoy some of our off-season autumn photos and we'll keep you up to date with MountainBug news throughout the off period, as well as answering our phones and emails.
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| Bareges in the autumn sun |
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| Cirque de Gavarnie with snow on the top |
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| Autumn colours at Gavarnie |
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