Summer is coming and it’s a perfect opportunity to brush up on your MTB skills. Here are some top tips to get you ready for the trails this summer. Vision: In most sports, your head plays an important role. You need to look where you are going and in mountain Read more…
Swiss Alpine Adventure – come and join us on some of our events this coming spring/summer. Lots going on and still more in planning
Swiss Alpine Adventure has some great events coming up this summer. Check out our newsletter or events page for more info.
The alarm rips me out of my slumber at 6:30am. I’m still trying to figure out if the previous 48 hours had all happened or if it was all part of the dream I had just been having. My eyes were heavy with tiredness but the excitement of yesterdays riding Read more…
You can’t get much more central in the Alps than Andermatt, but for me it’s often been a place of passing through rather than a destination in itself. At the point where many of the main Swiss passes meets it’s easy to overlook Andermatt as a bike destination in it’s Read more…
Those who know me, know that I am not a big fan of using GPS tracks for bike tours. For me a GPS is a restrictive device, you download a track which is usually a route that has been ridden by someone else and then you are more or less Read more…
The sun was already quite high in the sky as I opened my eyes, maps, bike shoes and backpacks lay strewn across the floor. Our bikes were snuggled into the space between the bed and the window in the tiny hotel room. The hotel had no bike storage so we Read more…
Autumn has come and as I write the trails are as good as they’ve been all year. Dry, dusty and leaf strewn trails with colours straight out of a post card are there to greet anyone who is getting out of the house on weekends and enjoy the amazing playground Read more…
It was always going to be risky going looking for new trails in the height of the summer holiday season. But, even at the busiest times of the year you can always find trails to yourself if you look hard enough. We enjoyed a few days in the Aletsch area Read more…
The last couple of months are all a bit of a blur. We’ve run a number of courses, had a few day trips to the Jura and Aegeri and many of our now traditional Afterwork rides. Our road riders have been very active too with many an alpine pass scaled Read more…