Tour du Thabor – Heavenly trails
The Tour du Thabor is a popular multiday hiking route in the french western alps. Outside of France this tour is less famous – wrongly. Mont Thabor is situated in beautiful alpine secenery in the triangle between Valmeunier, Bardonecchia and Briancon and marks the high point of the route. If you are willing to push/carry your bike to the peak of Mont Thabor with its chapel at 3176 m a.s.l. you are rewarded with amazing views into the mountains of the Savoie region and an amazing and very long downhill. This multi-day tour has many more epic trail highlights to be discovered for bikers who are not afraid to carry their bikes to get to the best trails…
Our version of Tour du Thabor can be done in three or four days, dependent on your fitness, schedule or liking. During these days you´ll cover around 90 km and approximately 5000 m vertical. 100% of the downhills are on trails, in total the tour has about 60 km of trails in it. Read below the story of four fantastic days filled with brilliant trails on a less famous alpine multiday route…