This is Episode 3 of 5 films documenting our journey from Chamonix to Nice roughly following the GR5.
In this episode we took in a Tour De France Col (our third) to get us to an awesome descent into the Queyras, travelled through this huge and sparsely populated lovely area, and on through the Ubaye on techy trails to end up crossing into Italy to avoid the Mercantour Natural Park where MTB’s are forbidden.
The aim is to encourage anyone considering either riding the GR5 or just bikepacking across the Alps to give it a go – it certainly didn’t go completely to plan, but it was an amazing experience nevertheless.
This is one video from a set of videos including long edits from POV video taken on some of the best singletrack we rode (there was lots more), the documentary “More than Adventure” about the experience of 18 days journeying across the mountains of the French and Italian Alps, and the route outline video too.
If you use Komoot, then check out the Legal GR5 collection on the Real World Riding page – you can download and use the planned routes for the trip, but beware!: even we weren’t able to stick to the route as you’ll have seen in Episode 1 already.
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Many thanks for the route details to Komoot and Googlemaps