 Poster: A snowHead
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My partner is not a big skier but is a keen cyclist (mainly road but also mountain bike).
Is there anywhere in Europe or North America where it is possible to road cycle and ski at the same time? - and where it is reasonably practical, without one person having to travel a significant distance to ski or cycle. I know this is a big ask given that cycling is completely incompatible with ice and snow but something interesting might come up.
(Places which came to mind were the Sierra Nevada ski area in southern Spain & Isola 2000 near Nice, but not sure how practical either is? I don't know the North American resorts well enough to comment.)
Thx
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I was about to suggest Isola 2000 though most resorts below around 1500m in late season should be fine, especially further south.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Would depend to some extent as to time of season and what the snow has been like. Mayrhofen and the Ziller valley is worth a look, not necessarily mountain biking as some of those routes would still be pistes tho.
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Les Deux Alpes by April still has great skiing with a glacier up to 3600m. The downhill mountain bike run down to Venosc opens before the end of the ski season and this year there were a lot of bikes around in late April. Road biking down the hill towards Bourg D'Oisans and Alpe D'Huez is possible too.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Chamonix at Easter, generally, but who knows what the weather will do any given year.
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Another thing to watch out for is the amount of potholes in mountain roads by the end of the winter, the Tour de France routes often get new tarmac in May.
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@targa_man, Kaprun. She can do the Grossglockner Strasse, an epic climb on great tarmac. There's a ton of mountainbiking too - sorry, not sure what kind of biker she is.
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