OutdoorLads Alps Adventure Weekend & Music Festival

You will make your own way to the town of Gap. We can help you with this as there are lots of possibilities! If you wish to travel by train Gap has links with the major TGV train stations (Grenoble, Aix-en-Provence and the closest) and there is a night train from Paris to Gap. 

If you are flying here, there are regular buses directly from Marseille airport to Gap.

Gap is a beautiful and lively Alpine town with a sunny Provencal feel, nestled in the heart of the mountains of the southern French Alps with views all around.

Morning:

You can get up at your leisure today and explore the town of Gap. Your hotel is right in the town centre so you can walk easily to the main pedestrianised area where there are cafes, bars and restaurants and lots of boutique shops to discover. 

Lunch:

We can advise you on good place to go for lunch in town before you meet your guide back at the hotel ready to go off canyoning. 

Afternoon:

Your guide will collect you a 13h30 from your hotel and take you to the canyoning site.

You'll get changed into specialist wetsuits and harnesses and the guide will give you a safety briefing before you plunge into your canyoning adventure!

Canyoning is excellent fun and will get your adrenaline flowing! You will get changed into your swimwear at the car park and then walk up to the canyon with your wet suits where your guide will give you a safety briefing. After that, it is fun, fun and more fun! 

Slide down natural rock toboggans into beautiful alpine water. Jump from up to 7 metres high into deep pools and abseil down dramatic waterfalls! The water is cold, the sun is hot, the scenery is beautiful, you will challenge yourself and have an amazing time.

Evening:

We can advise you on where to go out for dinner and some good bars and cafes to visit. Make the most of the longest days of the year in this beautiful town. 

Morning:

Your guide will collect yo at 8h30 to take you to the via ferrata site for a morning of high adrenalin!

Via Ferratas are ladders and thick wires positioned strategically over rock faces. You wear a harness and helmet, clip into them and then climb. You are always attached to the wires, so you can never fall very far. The wires allow you to climb on exposed rock faces that you would never normally be able to. A head for heights is required!! 

The via ferrata with tyrolean zip lines is probably one of the best sites, not only in the Southern French Alps but also in the whole country. The site is absolutely amazing, with a spectacular cliff and different routes to suit different abilities.  To spice up your climb, 3 big tyrolean zip wires (the longest being 220 meters!) and a scary monkey bridge will keep your adrenaline flowing all the way! An exceptional adventure amidst a breathtaking environment!

Lunch: 

Your guide will drop you back off in Gap for a late lunch.

Afternoon and Evening:

The midsummer music festival will be in full swing this afternoon and evening and we'll give you the programme so you can pick and choose what you want to see and listen too. It will be a busy, lively night in the town. There are street theatre and dance shows, live music playing on every corner as well as more structured concerts in strategic parts of the town.

It is very busy with lots of people and restaurants will be booked up. We can either book you into a restaurant in advance or you can choose to eat snacks and fast food and stay on the streets for the evening!

Full Day:

Our guide will meet you at the hotel at 9am and and kit you call out with semi rigid electric mountain bikes before heading out for a day in the mountains. You will need a picnic today so make sure you have organised this before the guide gets there. There are plenty of bakers in the town who do great picnics.

You will be riding on forest tracks with some easy single tracks, a few extra challenges for the more experienced bikers and some lovely easy descents through spectacular scenery. Expect to have lots of fun, and for everyone to be challenged within their level!

E-biking is becoming more and more popular in the Alps with seasoned hard core bikers as well as novices. They are great fun and allow mixed groups to travel and ride together at their own pace with less fit bikers using the turbo boost and the fitter bikers staying on eco or no assistance at all to get their cardio fix.

Otherwise inaccessible technical biking routes suddenly become fun and possible for novice bikers with the right tips and advice from a good mountain bike guide. Hardcore bikers will do things they never thought possible - the possibilities are endless. You are only limited by your battery life but with 80km of battery independence, you would have to go for quite a big day to use it all up!

Evening:

Another evening make the most of the long days and warm evenings. You may have discovered your favourite bar already and if not, well more exploring to do!

Today is the sad day when we say goodbye! We hope you've had a fantastic trip with plenty of stories to tell when you get back home!

We can help you pan your journey back home from Gap!