Actually it is a really impressive photo, but otherwise it makes me sad to see what has happened to the alpine scenery. "Mountain of Hell" is a quite suitable name for this trail and the whole picture. Lakes, rivers, roads, slopes, everything optimized for better snow conditions, more tourists, everything gets bigger better faster stronger. This development isn't sustainable and there's no ecological balance! Sooner or later nature will recapture what it has lost. You may give me negative props now and think "get on your bike and stay away from your computer", but for me mountainbiking (and skiing/snowboarding) also contains respect for nature and natural environment. And that's why I don't like this picture. Just my two cents.
Im with you on this. the best part of riding is getting back to nature. if its all laid out for you like this then its just not mountain biking anymore, its purely thrill seeking and attracts exactly the wrong sort of person..
That's the most honest, true and intelligent thing I've ever read in the comments section of Pinkbike, fizzride. Respect to you sir. I hope to meet you, on a natural trail, some day.
There's probably a bunch of goggle tear-offs blowing around there and some empty moster-energy cans wedged between the rocks too... I've lost count of how many times I've picked up things from riding spots in the UK. How can riders be so dumb?! "I like getting out and riding my bike in the woods... the fresh air, the trees, the amazing trails... so I'll drop my rubbish and f*ck it all up".... Arrghhh you fuuuuuuuuck!!! If you carried it there carry it home!!!! Better still - don't buy it in the first place. Stop being mindless marketing fodder!!! Humans suck balls and are well on the way to bringing about their own demise. Ahem. Shit. Where's my chill pills...
@fizzride. I really like your comment, and agree entirely with your sentiment. I feel that it is unfair though to dislike this photo when all the photographer is doing, is capturing a moment, and telling a story. Thanks to his image, and the information you provided, the rest of us get a better understanding of what is happening here.
I spent humm around 15 years to ski every year in les Deux Alpes + 10 years of summer season, working in this ski resort... I am totaly agree with you about the territory landscape policy of this place but you just have to know and notice that les Deux alpes is one of the highest ski resort of Europe By this way, and definitivly, there are no trees at all... 3/4 of the resort is stones, only stones and that all, you have a little bite of grass on the bottom but on the top, it is only stones....So it is grey and grey landscape we are so far away BC or places like Whislter .... Top Elevation 7,160 ft / 2,182 meters Base Elevation 2,140 ft / 652 meters for Les deux Alpes it is Top 12,000.00 / 3660 m Base 5,400.00 / 1650 m not the same weather not the nature...
You may want to have a look at the ethymology of "Alps". I'm sure you do not want live close to an alp (mainly because there are cows and cows and nothing more).
I would be happy to just live a little bit closer my fave trails.
5 hours from innerleithen
4 hours from chicksands
14 hours from winterberg
22 from la fenasosa.
Wish all of the above where an hour away. I know they aren't alpine but I would live with cows for closer trails
Young family means I'm pretty planted. Have a real soft spot for winterberg and also have friend in Spain. Sadly m lack of grasp for language rules out moving to either
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*it was super effective!*
You may give me negative props now and think "get on your bike and stay away from your computer", but for me mountainbiking (and skiing/snowboarding) also contains respect for nature and natural environment. And that's why I don't like this picture. Just my two cents.
There's probably a bunch of goggle tear-offs blowing around there and some empty moster-energy cans wedged between the rocks too... I've lost count of how many times I've picked up things from riding spots in the UK. How can riders be so dumb?! "I like getting out and riding my bike in the woods... the fresh air, the trees, the amazing trails... so I'll drop my rubbish and f*ck it all up".... Arrghhh you fuuuuuuuuck!!! If you carried it there carry it home!!!! Better still - don't buy it in the first place. Stop being mindless marketing fodder!!! Humans suck balls and are well on the way to bringing about their own demise.
Ahem. Shit. Where's my chill pills...
I am totaly agree with you about the territory landscape policy of this place but you just have to know and notice that les Deux alpes is one of the highest ski resort of Europe
By this way, and definitivly, there are no trees at all... 3/4 of the resort is stones, only stones and that all, you have a little bite of grass on the bottom but on the top, it is only stones....So it is grey and grey landscape
we are so far away BC or places like Whislter ....
Top Elevation 7,160 ft / 2,182 meters
Base Elevation 2,140 ft / 652 meters
for Les deux Alpes it is
Top 12,000.00 / 3660 m
Base 5,400.00 / 1650 m
not the same weather not the nature...
And then I saw light... Great POD!
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