Contact :
Maison de la Maurienne
Syndicat du Pays de Maurienne
Centre d'Affaire et de Ressource
Batiment B 1er étage
Avenue d'Italie, BP 82
73303 St Jean de Maurienne Cedex
Tél. 04 79 83 23 94
E-mail : comite@arcalpin.com
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Always wear a helmet and check your speed
in descents.
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Do not rush into the route, spare your muscles…
and you will go farther. Choose a route that suits your level.
Even with a guidebook and a blazed trail, a map is safer !
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Check the weather before leaving (08 36 68
02 73) and carry warm clothing. In the mountains, the weather
can change very fast !
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Do not forget a repair kit (inner tube, brake
cable), take something to eat and drink. … and have a good
ride
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Stay on the trails, do not cut across the
hairpins and do not block your rear wheel to preserve the natural
surface of the ground. Respect cultures and gates, and close
the gates behind you.
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Discover the Vanoise National Park on its
roads, paths are for pedestrians ! Even on a blazed mountain
bike trail, you are not alone ! The walker has priority and
politeness helps understanding !
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To make rescue operations easier, leave details
about your route to friends or hotel keepers. Cell phones cannot
connect to the network everywhere !
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| Blazings |
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Most of the routes in this guide are maintained
by VTT centers with FFC agreement and are officially blazed.
Each post indicates the level of difficulty (see colors below),
but also the number of the route to help you identify your circuit,
and the way it should be done.
Please note : the best mark is nothing if it is not seen,
so keep an eye on the sides of the trail, especially while descending
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Green route : very easy
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Blue route : Easy
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Red route : difficult
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Black route : very difficult
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VTT
centers with FFC agreement
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Les versants de l'Arvan
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The Villards and Arvan valleys join their wilderness
to offer a vast territory, with trails of all sorts. Valley floor
outings or high passes and lakes, the choice is without limits
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- Open from 15/05 to 15/11
- 41 routes (green to black)
- Length of blazed trails (overall) : 130 km
- Contact : Office de promotion de l'Arvan-Villards - 04
79 64 38 33
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Valloire Galibier
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At the foot of Col du Galibier, the village resorts
of Valloire and Valmeinier offer a great diversity of reliefs.
Numerous single tracks run across the forest and pastures towards
the mountain lakes.
- Open from 1/05 to 15/11
- 10 circuits (green to black)
- Length of blazed trails (overall) : 130 km
- Contact : Bureau des Guides 04 79 83 35 03
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L'Esseillon
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At the doors of the Vanoise National Park and
Italy, the center regroups seven villages and three resorts (Aussois,
La Norma, Valfréjus). Its routes run along the Arc river
and its gorges, and visit the famous Esseillon forts and Sardières
monolith.
- Open from 15/05 to 15/11
- 14 routes (green to black)
- Length of blazed routes (overall) : 200 km
- Contact : ADTAC 04 79 05 28 58
E-mail : info@canton-de-modane.com
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Haute-Maurienne Vanoise
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Between the Vanoise National Park and the Mont-Cenis
pass, the center offers both the sweetness of its high plateaus
and some very steep routes. The "Chemin du petit bonheur",
with its wooden signposts, fully deserves its name !
- Open from 15/05 to 15/10
- 20 blazed routes (green to black)
- Length of blazed routes (overall) : 277 km
- Contact : District de Haute Maurienne 04 79 05 91 57
E-mail : info@hautemaurienne.com
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Qualified mountain bike instructors
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In a small or large group, a mountain bike
outing with a qualified instructor is both more interesting and
safer.
The instructors mentioned in this guide all have diplomas sanctioned
by the Ministry of Youth and Sports : the state diploma for cycling
, first degree, the state diploma for low-altitude mountain instructor
with the mountain bike speciality, or the certification of aptitude
for mountain bike instructors delivered by the ministry of Sports.
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Aiguebelle
o Xavier Poignat 04 79 44 32 28
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St-François Longchamp
o Georges Pelissier et Jean-Marc Pelissier 04 79 59 11 06
o Lucien Charvet 04 79 59 10 66 Les Karellis
o Benjamin Toppart 06 81 50 39 95 - 04 79 59 50 36
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L'Arvan-Villards
o Jean-Noël Favre-Bonté 04 79 56 21 62
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St-Jean-de-Maurienne
o Denis Ridoire 04 79 56 80 50
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Valloire
o Bureau des guides with : Patrick Gillot, Thierry Le Bigot,
Bernard Phily 04 79 83 35 03
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Aussois
o Bureau Montagne in Aussois 04 79 20 32 48
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Bramans
o Hervé Flandin 04 79 50 36 79
o Franck Pitois 04 79 05 23 33
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Termignon la Vanoise
o Bureau des guides Gypaete 04 79 20 53 97
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Val Cenis
o Mathieu Bastelica 04 79 05 85 79
o Philippe Lepigre 04 79 05 97 95
o Jean Lignier 04 79 05 84 56
o UCPA 04 79 05 90 54
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