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Well, I finally rode the Alps in Les Gets, and it was an amazing experience. In no way like the Mega and top respect to Nige on qualifying and finishing.

Family holiday so mixture of walking and biking and trips over to Chamonix and visiting the top of the Aguille di Midi (3800m) , were it was snowing and looking down on dozens of mountaineers camping on the glacier!! Magic day.

Biking was epic and draining and I LOVED IT!! Rode 5 days out of 6 (Blues and Reds DH off the Chavannes with a bit of Northshore helter skelter! and a Green DH with Mrs Grin on the Mont Cherry which went realy well and she wants to do more, so more holidays on the cards )

Thunder earlier in the week but the rain didnt impact the trails, lucky it was only Thursday night it when it chucked it down & stop and start during Friday where the result was very greasy under the trees and tough on the Black DH rooty descent, didnt manage that to well but great learning curve, first Black DH too, shame Crash & I didnt do them earlier in the week)

Fantastic that Northern made it over and rode with us Friday, and mucho thanks for leading me into the biggest gap jump i have ever done, loved it and all the trainning kicked in, sweeet landings each time. Thanks to Adam who had video on his phone we were able to capture the moment and he will post up in the gallery for me

All in all a brilliant holiday, the Alps in the summer are amazing ( up till now only visited for snowboarding) and this has given me the confidence to do other trips with the boys next year.

Loads of photos and I will try and get some of them up when I finally work out how too as I need to make the file size smaller.

Grin

Great mate. look fwd to the photos.

Sounds awesome, well done mate, as beardee says look fwd to the pics and vids

Sik! Let us know if you need a hand with pics and vids mate.

If ur talking about the les gets gap thats whooper mate!

Thanks for the offer Jon, might have to take you up on that!

Doubt its the same gap mate!! My one was the first gap jump across the right Red DH Berm in the Black Jump park at top of Chavannes and it was big for me There was other stuff i know I could after doing Herts but the tight steep berms straight after the drops were too intimidating for me.

Also the helicopter landing and several paramadics attending a guy the day before was a little off putting too hopefully wasnt to bad as he ended up leaving in a 4x4 ambulance, but didnt look and sound nice. As did another guy we came across down the main red after a fast kicker jump who we saw leaving down a fire road with his feet out the back of the ambulance. Just got to put it out of your mind !!

Sounds like you had a awesome time, waiting for the pics, vids

How did you find your new bike over there??

So jel. Really missed it this year, I do love the Les gets tracks, Super fast and following.

I guess you didn't find the secret stuff near the 4x bit??

Hi guys, remember me

not a lot of action shots since we were too busy to ride. No movies either since I forgot to bring the sdcards for the GoPro


ready to go!



relaxed uplift


It was nice being in the alps again but a week was too short!




Time too sort out the next trip.

Yeah, youre that bloke who used to ride through the deepest epping undergrowth

'Crash and Grin', you should trademark that, sounds like a great mtb mantra

Here you go .....

Smooth transition

Thanks Adam , much appreciated post Hope you're journey back was good.

Piccies coming soon hoepfully!

You and adam make that look easy

Great jump that one, well done on doing it.

Few of Grins pics