Portail de Fully Diretissima
Description
The ascent to the Portail de Fully is the same as the original route. In Dorénaz, take the small gondola lift up to Champex and hang your bikes on the gondola at the bottom. At the mountain station, take a small road up to La Giette and then continue on a gravel path to the Cabane du Scex Caro. Here the route turns into a singletrail, which you can pedal up to the Portail de Fully. However, many people push their bikes here in phases to save some energy. On the Portail, there is a first-class panorama of the Mont Blanc massif opposite and the Rhône knee far below.
The descent is also initially identical to the original route. This initially rides on a singletrail through very exposed meadow terrain. A cautious riding style is advisable here. The trail then becomes increasingly flowy and ends on a gravel road at the top station of the material cable car. The original route would now lead slightly uphill and then along the legendary high-altitude trail, but in this case you take the direct route down to Fully from here. The first part is extremely difficult or almost unrideable, partly due to the exposed location. The further you ride downhill, the more rideable it becomes, but it remains at S4 level until you reach the gravel road. After the gravel road, the flow fireworks begin. The path down to Euloz is of the highest quality with an S1 to S2 seal. A total of 1000 meters of super trail! At Euloz, by the way, you turn slightly right into the forest, briefly on a traverse path, and then you can enjoy the entire singletrail program until you reach the edge of the village of Fully. Finally, you return to Dorénaz along the Rhone on side roads.
Conclusion: This version does not quite match the quality of the original, but is definitely an option for good riders who already know the classic route.
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Details of the tour
29 km
1250 m
1930 m
450 above sea level
2328 above sea level
1 day
Dorénaz
Dorénaz
2529
well suited
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User comments (1)
About the author: Thomas Giger
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I've ridden the descent described several times and am quite surprised by the description. Yes, the first part is extremely difficult and rough and I always descend there for a few passages. But I've "ridden" much more difficult trails that were described in the ride as "extremely difficult, but doable for good mountain bikers" or "This trail is technically very demanding, but a fun challenge for experienced mountain bikers". (Is Thomas Giger getting old? Or sensible? :-)) However, I agree with Thomas that this variant doesn't come close to the quality of the original. I always ride this variant when I add the loop to the Col de Fenestral from Eulo via Ovronnaz and Jorasse.
I ride a Scott Genius Ultimate and am usually in the head group uphill; downhill I'm always the last one by a long way.