Lift openings 2023: General Artificial Untelligence
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1y ago
A new summer of lift riding sprawls before us… What lifts will open? When will they open? How long will you keep reading my tenuously connected intro before scrolling down to the actual info? Still reading I see. The big buzz in writing write now is a.i. If you’re in any way stuck for content, just fire a question into ChatGPT, let it write the article for you and then at the end of your piece SURPRISE! drop the bomb that the algorithm wrote it… So I tried that and it was pretty disappointing. Which possibly sums up your experience of reading the human generated version of this too. No matt ..read more
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Shepard Tone // Always Descending
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by chamonixbikeblog
1y ago
I like music me. Rubbish at making it, but I can still enjoy it. Envious of those wistful lads at parties who’d sit down and start playing guitar to the adoration of all, I got my first real six string and tried learning to play. Mostly in the hope a certain someone would be impressed. In short, 1 thumb, 4 fingers, 6 strings just doesn’t add up for me, I barely learnt enough cords to play in a punk band, and she wasn’t impressed. I quickly realised that I’m atrocious at playing music and vowed never to inflict my attempts on anyone. There’s a name for people who persevere with subjecting the ..read more
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A long ride around Mont Blanc
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by chamonixbikeblog
1y ago
At some point today, the Artemis 1 rocket should have been launching on the first stepping stone mission to go back to the future moon. Obviously, space travel is hard and complicated, so that’s been cancelled. Again. The last time a human stood on the moon was the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, near 50 years ago. Before even that though, there was Apollo 8. In December 1968 the 3 astronauts of Apollo 8 became the first humans to see the dark side of the moon. Apollo 11 gets the plaudits for landing on the moon, but Apollo 8’s hard, complicated, journey into the completely unknown was wh ..read more
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Once upon a time in the Southern Balkans
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by chamonixbikeblog
1y ago
“No time to explain, can you leave for Macedonia on Monday?” Is not the exact message I got from Luke, but it’s probably only out by 4 words. Due to chain of events too arcane to enter into here, Luke was in the process of arranging a promotional trip to Macedonia and Albania. A crack crew of MTB journalists, photographers, tourism industry operators, guides, social media influencers and an actor were to head to Skopje for a week of magazine article shooting, promotional video interviewing and development of MTB tourism advising in the aid of promoting the new High Scardus MTB ..read more
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Lift openings 2022 // Third time lucky 
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by chamonixbikeblog
1y ago
Remember 2016? Halcyon days now that. 2020; global pandemic, world in lockdown… still, at least it’ll all be over by Christmas. 2021; what another variant!?! What next, WW3, pfft.   I guess we should learn not to joke. Go fuck yourself Putin  Assuming there is a summer here’s when the lift companies reckon they’ll open their lifts, gleaned from umpteen hours checking through websites and some emails. Or, of course, I could just make up a load of dates. Prarion is open from 1st May to 25th November. Boom. Who needs researched and verified information when you can say what people wan ..read more
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Smells like Digne spirit* 
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by chamonixbikeblog
1y ago
Cast your mind back to when you were wee.   No, a bit further back.   Better.   What job did you want to have when you grew up: Astronaut? Train Driver? Vet?   I wanted to be a digger driver, possibly due to growing up on a housing estate in the process of construction. Then I went skiing and digger driving got binned in favour of being a ski bum. Few people get to say they’ve achieved their childhood employment dreams (could Buzz Aldrin dream of being paid to walk on the moon if the job didn’t exist?) but I’m happy to say I’ve ticked that box. &n ..read more
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I am just going outside and may be some time // La Grave
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by chamonixbikeblog
1y ago
The year is 1912. Captain Scott’s mission to be first to the south pole is not going quite to plan. Having been beaten to the bottom of the world, they now face bad weather, worse food and multiple injuries. Knowing his gangrene and frostbite were reducing the remaining three member’s chances of survival, Lawrence Oates says those fateful words and leaves the tent to die in the storm. Alone. Terribly English. We’re way past the Victorian era now (yeah I ken, it was the Edwardian, but the mindset of the stiff upper british lip prevailed. Still does if you ask the right tory) so going outside ..read more
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How to ride a bike in Chamonix 2.021
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by chamonixbikeblog
1y ago
“There’s no such thing as a new idea”. A phrase well kent in magazine journalism…. Is how I started the 2018 version of this, explaining why I was mining old content for a new post. Well, it’s meta squared now as I take that post and update it for 2021, because a few things have happened since then. It is pretty amazing how much information is out there for free right now. Between Strava, trailforks, mass tracking via the 5g microchips we’ve all had injected during vaccination and all the other apps I’ve never heard of and will need to ask a young person about, you can find near every trail ..read more
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Lift openings 2021 // Roll the dice
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by chamonixbikeblog
1y ago
Last years version of this was easily my most edited post ever as I tried to keep up with when lifts would actually open. Anyone want to put money on this year going to the original schedule below? Nope, me neither. But here’s all the dates you want and need anyways, with updates coming thick and thick as I have them. Last update: 08/04/21 (post is up for a day and updated already)  09/04/21 18/04/21 27/04/2021 03/05/2021 19/05/2021 21/05/2021 29/05/2021 (and all lifts now updated so any changes from here in means la merde has met le moulin. Again.) 21/06/2021 (quelle supr ..read more
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Stealing Autumn. 
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by chamonixbikeblog
1y ago
Back in 2016, I imagined what would happen if the then president elect went biking in Chamonix. Four years later, leaving office with the legacy of being the first president to be impeached twice, he’s here in his own words again*; A timeline of how autumn was stolen.  04/11/2020 Election night speech: “I want to thank the first lady, my entire family….for being with us all through this. And we were getting ready for a big ride. We were riding everything and all of a sudden it was just called off. The rides have been phenomenal and we are getting ready… I mean, literally we wer ..read more
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