{"id":74,"date":"2007-10-14T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/2007\/10\/14\/20071013-14-tour-val-dannivier-col-de-cou\/"},"modified":"2007-10-14T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T21:06:00","slug":"20071013-14-tour-val-dannivier-col-de-cou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/10\/14\/20071013-14-tour-val-dannivier-col-de-cou\/","title":{"rendered":"2007.10.13-14: Tour Val d&#8217;Annivier + Col de Cou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday: +850m, -1250m, 25km: Chandolin-Grimentz<br \/>\nSunday: +1300m, -2300m, 45km: Grimentz-Col de Cou-Sion\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video: Right click <a href=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/valdanniviers.wmv\">here<\/a> to download 1 1\/2 minute, 15MB video (.WMV format):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/valdanniviers.wmv\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/val_anniviers.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1070943.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Official&#8217; regional mountain bike\u00a0map (Bike-Explorer sold by local tourist office) for Val d&#8217;Anniviers contains essentially no single-track.\u00a0 Local hiking associations apparently did not approve that any be indicated on the map.\u00a0 Hopefully the local economy of hotels and restaurants will figure out that is a mistake.\u00a0 Hopefully some day the tourist office will wake up and realize that bikers are similar to\u00a0hikers and like gentle up and down flowing trails that allow for big tours, instead of building\u00a0downhill bike pistes in ski resorts.\u00a0 Anyways there are several excellent single-track tours of Val d&#8217;Anniviers, you just need to know how to read a 25&#8217;000 Swiss map.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1070963.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1070988.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080019.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080034.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080049.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080058.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grimentz off in the distance, destination for tonight, but first a 1000m descent:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080063.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080079.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080084.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080095.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080103.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080111.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I guess it must be autumn:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080127.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080132.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080138.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A little hike is up ahead:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080158.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just a couple hundred more meters of bike pushing\/portaging to go:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080175.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080188.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, beginning of 2000m descent.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080189.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some is a little technical, but not too much:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080194.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other is easy:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080196.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Half way down, some fast and flowing, before Nax:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080214.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phspot.ch\/trips\/bike\/swiss\/2007\/val_anniviers_col_cou\/P1080226.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CO2 emissions: <strong>(maybe 1.7 kg \/ person)<\/strong> &#8211; used train and Swiss trains are powered 75% by renewable-sourced electricity.\u00a0 Used bus for 26km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday: +850m, -1250m, 25km: Chandolin-Grimentz Sunday: +1300m, -2300m, 45km: Grimentz-Col de Cou-Sion\u00a0 Video: Right click here to download 1 1\/2 minute, 15MB video (.WMV format): The &#8216;Official&#8217; regional mountain bike\u00a0map (Bike-Explorer sold by local tourist office) for Val d&#8217;Anniviers contains essentially no single-track.\u00a0 Local hiking associations apparently did not approve that any be indicated on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike","category-valais"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phspot.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}