S3. E1 Summer Mountain Biking, Chamonix Aiguille du Midi and Climbing the Matterhorn

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In this launch Summer episode of The White Out
We take a quick look at summer ski news as well as summer mountain news.
We explore some of the fantastic things you can do in resorts over the Summer with a a particular focus on mountain biking, and what you need to know to get cracking, what to wear, where to go, and where in the UK is great to visit to try out mountain biking from Warren smith Bike Academy, based in Verbier, Glen Tress in Scotland, in Wales, Afan Forest Park, Bike Park Wales and Cym Carn and then in the north wales coed y Brenin, Marin Trail and Penmacno to name a few, then also Forest of Dean, Swinley Forest near Bracknell and we also talked about swinleybikehub.com and also Grizedale in the Lake District.
Overseas we also mentioned Les Gets in France – arguably Europe’s home of mountain biking and where it all started.
Verbier in Switzerland which is the largest, but Bike Kingdom Lenzerheide follows closely behind. A huge area linking up with Arosa too.
The Dolomites in Italy and specifically Selva Val Gardena where you can do a day mountain bike tour around the sella ronda
In Austria the largest bike park which is Salbaach-Hinterglemm and Leogang
And of course North America, among many others places such as Whistler are huge - more to come >
We look at what's going on with the Tour de France with full details available at www.letour.fr/en
And we explore 2 new bikes from Rossignol.com/gb-en and the great deals they are offering on the Trail Mandate XP - the top of the range Rossignol bike now it’s £2,265 instead of the full £3,775 as well as the Scott Sports Voltage eRIDE scott-sports.com/gb/en/voltage
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1. S3. E1 Summer Mountain Biking, Chamonix Aiguille du Midi and Climbing the Matterhorn (00:00:00)

2. Intros (00:03:01)

3. What's summer like in the mountains (00:03:42)

4. News (00:06:33)

5. Mountain bikes (00:16:19)

6. Intro to mountain biking and it's gear (00:18:51)

7. Where to go mountain biking? (00:25:32)

8. Spotlight on Chamonix (00:30:56)

9. Climbing the Matterhorn (00:35:59)