Aosta Valley Freeride

Five days of enduro riding in the Aosta Valley, with the shuttle taking care of the climbing. Twelve thousand metres of descent in five days.
One trail after another, from the ridgelines down through the forest, descents that keep going long after you think they are finished. In the middle of the week we sleep up in a mountain hut, so the next morning you start the day already high and drop straight into one of the best traverses in the valley.
Good food every night, a walk into Aosta for dinner, and a group small enough to actually ride together. Seven riders, one guide, and a lot of laughing between one shuttle and the next.
May to October. If you are four or more, we run it on your own dates.

Three days on. Same group, new valley.
Tom leading the climb out of Chamonix toward Col de Balme, the Mont Blanc massif holding the horizon behind him.
Another one of those days you don’t plan and don’t forget. No map to check, no wondering what comes next. Just the trail ahead and the mountain at your back.

Most people fly over the Aosta Valley.
Fewer stop to ride across it. And even fewer know the season runs right through to the end of October, when the larches turn gold and the trails empty out.
High ridges, the Mont Blanc massif on the skyline, and no one else for miles.
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Straight from the trail: Tom and the group midway through the Tour du Mont Blanc, the massif right behind them.
No logistics on their minds, no wondering what comes next. That’s the guide’s job. Theirs is just the trail ahead, and a very good day for it.
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Before you ride it, we ride it first. Tom and Christian are pre-running the Tour du Mont Blanc season, to make sure the trail is clear, in good shape and free of surprises.

We’ve moved.
A quiet green spot by the water, the kind of place an outdoor operation like ours is meant to call home.
This is our engine room. Where Anna runs the logistics for every trip, including the ones that start somewhere else entirely. Where the bikes get prepped, washed and dialled in. Where everything comes together before the riding begins.
Some days you roll out straight from here. Other times we meet you at your hotel. Either way, it all runs from this base.
Welcome to our new base camp.
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We’ve been working on this for a while. A quick quiz that matches you to the AVF trip that actually fits how you ride.
8 questions. 2 minutes. Built by us, for you.
Try it → link in bio.

We started in 2008.

I was 28. Built a small blog about mountain biking in Valle d’Aosta from my apartment — because the valley was full of riding nobody outside the region had ever ridden, and I figured someone should write about it.

Eighteen years later, I still don’t really feel like I run a company. It looks more like this.

The whole team in one place. The driver. The guides. The people who answer the emails. The people who edit the photos you scroll through. The ones who build the ads. Every single one of them on a bike.

It’s not a strategy. It’s just what happens when you keep building a thing you’d want to be part of yourself.

The trips we sell are designed by people who’ve ridden them. Every climb. Every descent. Every coffee stop. The view at the top.

It changes everything — though it’s hard to put your finger on why until you’re on the bike with us.