yes, i will bring a seond brake for sure! andi and valentin don’t use a brake 
how it looks like at the moment (just a little above our strat):
http://www.chaletgueggel.ch/livecam_popup.html 
but it seems getting better… 
yes! the weather will be perfect and also a lot of the snow is already gone!
we’ll leave in an hour for going to davos to do a little warm up ride, before we’ll spend the night on the top of the jakobshorn!
i’m really looking forward especially for the first ride in the dark with the headlights on a trail we’ve never been before (and probably with snow on it)!
it’s done!!!
Marc vogt and turtle set a kind of a world record on monday the 4th of octobre: 8100 vertical meters (26570 feet) of downhill on the muni in 12 hours! more then 90% on singletrails and always on different trails!!!
andi had to give up after 2000 meters because of a twisted ankle and a cut in his knee, valentin gave up after 5000 meters because he didn’t have a brake and didn’t want to hurt himself.
it was a fantastic day , alsmost no snow, also many many cool trails!!!
film will follow
That’s fantastic! Cheers guys! Was it more than you thought you could do?
Also, valentin may have broken the record for brakeless downhill in 12 hours (well probably less than 12 hours).
What was the horizontal distance, and (therefore) average speed? Wheel size?
thanks!
yes valentin was just crazy!!
i thougt we’ll do 6000-8000 meters, if we wouldn’t have missed a cable car at lunchtime, there would be possible even almost 10’000 meters (that’s the challenge for next year :p)
our trackers didn’t work all the time, so we don’t have all the details yet.
wheel sizes: valentin and andi rode a 24" marc and me 26"
here’s the vid:
That is some crazy terrain and views! I need to get out to the alps next year to do some epic muni with you.
Congrats! That is great stuff, looks like a great way to spend a day. Does one pass get you up all the cable cars? In America, you could never get that close to a helicopter with the rotor moving, nor would you want to.
You should plan to beat your record on the full moon June 15th 2011, there is a total lunar eclipse that night. Here are two pics from my Davos trip in Nov. 08’ with my son, we loved it. I was there with his high school ice hockey team, traveling and playing teams in Davos, Lugano, and Garmisch.
thanks!
when spend the night in davos you’ll get a free ticket for all the transportations for day day of your arriving and leaving!!
(otherways it costs 48 swiss francs a day! we payed 56 francs for the hostel up on the top of the jakobshorn for the first night we payed 70 francs but including the dinner and breakfast)
the idea with full moon night ist really good, but also riding in the real dark with the headlights is a great adventure!
Congratulations Turtle !! What an amazing day that must have been. The scenery and trails looked absolutely awesome. Not much to say … other than … WOW !! Nice…
That’s what you have that full lunar eclipse for. A spell of total darkness in an otherwise moonlit night, you can’t get it any better! And June 15th gives you essentially the maximum of daylight.
That was excellent. Man I want to go riding there before the winter.
Congratulations to your record too! That’s a lot of downhill in 12 hours.
Aweseome looking ride. Thanks for sharing.
thanks for the comments again!! looks like they’ll put a small article in the swiss and maybe in a german MTB magazin.
@aspenmike and Klaas: i thought about the 15th of june and think it’s would be great to do it then again…but then i figured at this time there will be to much snow up there, and i can’t think of an other place to do something like this… other full moons are at the 13th of august and the 12th of september, probalbly we’ll take the sebtembre because that would be a monday, so less hikers will be on the trails… (this year we’ve seen the whole day about 4-6 hikers)
I see the point.
- For the snow you want to do it at the end of summer.
- For daylight you want to do it at the beginning of summer.
- You want to avoid weekends.
- Maybe you want to avoid the holiday season as well, in view of the number of hikers?
exactly two years later (4th of oct.) we try it again! unfortunately Marc is in the states and valentin in the swiss army…, but luckily David Weichenberger joins me. we will spend the night again on the top and are allowed to take the first cable car at 7.35 in the morning (for staff only) to the other side up. afterwards we try to ride all day long and make more than 10’000 meters of downhill on all different single trails 
Cool! Good luck and happy riding to both of you. Take pictures.
good luck
Super cool, cant wait to see the pics.
Awesome! I knew that when you suggested this at Gricha you were going to go for it! I just wish I could be there to go for it with you!!!