Mountain Bike on the Crete des Serres

One of the nice things about St Andre (and the southern alps in general) is that it's pretty quiet. You can go for a long hike or mountain bike ride and see no-one all day. Things are also less 'documented' than elsewhere - there are fewer books on hikes and fewer recorded mountain bike rides. This all adds to the sense of adventure and you sometimes have to 'discover' your own hikes or mountain bike rides.

Today was such a day. I found a decent route up the Crete des Serres on my mountain bike  - it was a bit of a slog but almost all of it could be done on the bike. The ride down was via the standard hike down from Serre Gros - much more fun on a mountain bike than hiking! Of course, lots of people will have done the ride before, and I hope everyone else has had the same sense of adventure I did!