I had planned a short run out on Wednesday up at Slaley Hall but on the day didn’t feel up to it. I decided to go up to Chopwell Woods, which is only about 20 minutes away. It had been featured in Mountain Bike Rider not long ago so I thought I’d see what changes they had made.
I did 4 runs down the red trail, which I enjoyed. Yes I know there not in sync, I only had one camera so each clip is a different run.
Change of plan for day 3, we had never planned to go over to Les Houches but as we had done all the other area’s and the fact that the Downhill World Cup was on we went over, got ourselves a 4 hour pass (the pass we had didn’t cover Les Houches) and stayed until about 1 PM. I thought this was the best area of the four, long wide runs and very few people considering what was going on.
Went all the way down to the bottom of the cable car, through the crowds in the village and onto the bus back to Grand Montets. I must say by this time I was knackered. I only managed one run and a half hearted attempt at the jump and that was it for me. I went back to the cafe and had a coffee while Michael did a few more runs.
Instead of going back to the flat and out we decided just to keep going, so with board under arm we headed off for some apres ski.
Really enjoyed the 3 days and made the most of each day. Planning another trip out there at the end of March. Watch this space.
Because the main lift up to Le Tour was closed we took the train round the back. We decided to go back the same way. This is the run down to the train station.
Another early start on day 2 and headed back to Balme in the hope that it would be open… it wasn’t so rather than abandon it altogether we caught the bus up to the train station and got the train round to the far end of that area. The second video is the run down from the top of the first lift up to the train station.
