active units: miles km °C °F
June 26, 2008
"ND de Schauenberg"
25-24°C 77-75°F25 km 15 miles, 1h45 Elev.Gain 720m 2300 feet
10 MTB (Michel, Yves, Anthony, Gérald, Thierry, Denis, Bernard, Claude, Christian, Christophe)
appointment at 6:30PM in Westhalten (church)This time it's Christophe who comes 10 minutes too late. The organisation is perfect! .... Franck calls the group. Thanks!
The circuit: vineyard toward Rouffach and loop in the forest (ND du Hubel) to reach Notre-Dame (= ND) de Schauenberg, beautiful trail overlooking Pfaffenheim.
A 2nd loop will show us the convent St Marc, we climb the rock of the Cuckoo, then stop at ND de Schauenberg. Back to Westhalten using a parallel path.
 Claude and Gerald  |
 Anthony  |
 turn |
 trunk  |
 fern  |
 Yves...  |
 Denis  |
 rock |
 Yves  |
 honeysuckle  |
 ND Schauenberg |
 altarpiece  |
 tree |
 Christian  |
 50 (=31 miles)  |
 sun  |
- another nice trip (isn't it?)
- seen (only) 1 deer, but still no picture .... they are too fast !!
- Christian finds that the trip is too short, so he decides to go home with his bicycle.
June 19, 2008
"Hohlandsbourg (the castel ...)"
28-22°C 82-71°F37 km 23 miles, 2h30 Elev.Gain 960m 3150 feet
13 MTB (Michel, Yves, Christian, Eric, Frédéric, Mario, Franck, Denis, 2 Thierry, Bernard, Claude, Christophe)
appointment at 6:30PM in Westhalten (church)Pfaffenheim - Gueberschwihr - Voegtlinshoffen - climb to Stauffenmatt (722m) - rocher Turenne - Hohlandsbourg castel (620m) - forest - return by Husseren-les-Chateaux - Voegtlinshoffen - Gueberschwihr - Pfaffenheim - Westhalten.
Oops!! Mario and Frédéric are missing. We lost them during the km ?? but they find again the right way. Sorry! ... the french version was not telling exactelly the same :-)
 departure |
 vineyard  |
 turn |
 sun |
 Stauffenmatt |
 green  |
 descent |
 not good |
 Michel  |
 castel  |
 settings  |
 plouf |
 Christian |
 return |
- nice trip with a perfect weather
- we don't need 1h this evening to cleanup the bike and the clothes. Yes!!
- a lot of mechanic !!
- video: I need your opinion!! are the performance ok ?
June 12, 2008
"sun and rain"
22-15°C 71-59°F25 km 15 miles, 1h45 Elev.Gain 640m 2100 feet
13 MTB (Gaelle, Anthony, Thomas, Gérald, Fabien, Denis, Yves, Bernard, Claude, Franck, 2 Thierry, Christophe)
appointment at 6:30PM in GuebwillerWarning: we will have again a wet evening.
The afternoon is beautiful, so Christophe will do a small trip (10 km) in direction from chapelle du Bollenberg. The first 4 pictures were done during this time.
There are then more and more people at the departure: .... 8, 9, 13 it's enough, we will go!!
Sorry for the first part (climb), direction Croix de Mission, then col du Dreibannstein (537m), col du Bannstein (483m). Clouds are waiting there; we cross the road and want to go to the Boenlesgrab but we stop at the Engelstein .... the storm attacks us.
U-turn, we bike still a few kilometres in the forest from Orschwihr, and then go out (not very clean). Fortunately there is a fountain!! Bergholtz-Zell, Bergholtz and then back "dry" at the cars.
8:45 PM Guebwiller
 Echium vulgare  |
 Geranium  |
 pheasant  |
 sun  |
 departure  |
 climbing  |
 vineyard  |
 Gaelle  |
 superb  |
 Bannstein  |
 wet  |
 bubbles  |
 not clean  |
 fountain  |
  |
 Thierry  |
 Denis  |
we will do better the next time
weather info... c'est clair, le ciel va nous tomber sur la tête!
is clear, the sky will fall on our head!
 H -7 |
 H -4 |
 H-Hour |
 H +1 |
June 5, 2008
"Vallée Noble"
18-17°C 64-62°F32 km 20 miles, 2h Elev.Gain 850m 2800 feet
8 MTB (Christian, Franck, 2 Thierry, Thomas, Bernard, Claude, Christophe) + 0,5 (Super G.)
appointment at 6:30PM in Guebwillercol de Bannstein (483m), Wintzfelden, col de Firstplan (722m), Osenbach, Wintzfelden, col de Bannstein, Schweighouse,
9:00 PM Guebwiller
 wheel? |
 wet |
 father and son  |
 chameleon |
 color |
 Firstplan |
 Osenbach |
 2 Thierry  |
and before?