ALPS EPIC / is an exceptional MTB adventure inspired by the Grande Traversée des Hautes-Alpes (Great Hautes-Alpes Crossing, 350 kilometers of trails from La Grave to Laragne).

/ Marathon stage race, pair racing, or MTB ride without ranking, you can choose your formula.
/ 1 Prologue + 5 stages with 50-70km per day.
/ This event truly is EPIC: point to point riding over a week, requiring all the strength and bike handling skills a rider has, with everything else taken care of by the ALPS EPIC team: food, accommodation and race logistics… An extraordinarily epic adventure that will show you awesome areas like Ancelle, Le Dévoluy, les Source du Büech, for a final ride to Serre-Ponçon and its lake.

YOUR EPIC EXPERIENCE

2018 PROGRAM / Here is the program. For sure, we will add new contents when known.

You can arrive and be welcome in Ancelle on July, 1st. We can keep your bike from there.

PROLOGUE
MONDAY, 2 JULY

Ancelle

DISTANCE
10,83 km

ELEVATION
353 m+ / 354 m-

STAGE 1
TUESDAY, 3rd JULY

Ancelle > Ancelle

DISTANCE
69,4 km

ELEVATION
2 311 m+ / 2 311 m-

STAGE 2
WEDNESDAY, 4th JULY

Ancelle > Superdévoluy

DISTANCE
73,4 km

ELEVATION
2 737 m+ / 2 589 m-

STAGE 3
THURSDAY, 5th JULY

Superdévoluy > Veynes

DISTANCE
65,4 km

ELEVATION
2 008 m+ / 2 724 m-

STAGE 4
FRIDAY, 6th JULY

Veynes > Chorges

DISTANCE
87,6 km

ELEVATION
3 277 m+ / 3 254 m-

STAGE 5
SATURDAY, 7th JULY

Savines > Embrun

DISTANCE
78,3 km

ELEVATION
2 962 m+ / 2 974 m-

STÉPHANE TEMPIER /

Our local MTB champion (1°frenchman at the London Olympics, 5th in the 2014 XC World cup, winner of the 2012 Roc d’Azur); Always happy to promote the Haute-Alpes, as with his recent press conference for the GTHA. He will be the celebrity partner for the Alps Epic.

LAETITIA ROUX /

Multiple world champion in ski mountaineering and member of the french squad for many years, Laetitia is also a keen biker. Present during the press conference for the GTHA, she will also be a celebrity partner of the Alps Epic.