Blue Graded Mountain Bike Routes in the Chamonix Valley

Route No. 4, 4Km (Blue)

The route starts at "Pierre d'Orthaz". Keep on the track to the right of the river, passing the "EDF"
(French Electricity) station. Turn right off the road and keeping the river on your right gain the fourwheel-drive track. You now pass a large wooden barn on your left and come to a fork in the trail. Take the track straight ahead, this will gently incline. Sometime after you have swept left you will pass an outcrop of rock "la Norvege" on your right. Continue meandering down the track left of the rock, until you end up at the large twin wooden bridge "Les Sources". Cross the bridge and take the right track. As you approach a clearing in the woods take the track to your right and keep right on the undulating trail. After a steep up hill to the "Sommet des Sources", take the left track and descend back to the clearing in the woods.

Route No. 7, 5Km (Blue)

You start at "le Lavancher", gain a four-wheel-drive track taking you up the valley through perfect alpine fields. The trail goes into a single track as you gain the "Petit Balcon Nord". This is a very good route, winding quickly through wooded spurs. After a couple of kilometres, you pass above
"les Chosalets" and then head downhill through "la Rosiere". Passing through the "Tunnel" under the Grands Montets telepherique you take a left down the access road. At the main road go right, crossing the river "l'Arve" and then immediately take the track on your right that follows the river.
Descend down the valley passing the climbing area of "le Joux" on your right. Keep on the track passing "le Moulin" and finish at "Point de la Corrua".

Route No. 9, 2Km (Blue)

From Argentière take the road through the village over the river and keep left. Take a left up a fourwheel-drive track zig zagging on towards "Montroc". Follow the road up to the finish at "le Tour".