The Courses
There are 3 permanent downhill courses in the general area and miles upon miles of excellent single track and fire road.
There’s 1 downhill course in Les Gets called Les Gets 2, this is not the world cup course, as that is not ridable as its only used once a year and not maintained, Les Gets 2
is a very twisty, fast wooded course that opens out
towards the bottom, the top half is wooded the bottom
half being like an over grown duel track, excellent.
The
second of the downhills is in Morzine about 10mins ride
from Les Gets and no you don’t have to pedal to get
there. This is the Avalanche cup course, I think this is
everyone’s favorite as it’s one of those
courses that almost any one can ride, but as soon as you
lay off the breaking and get a bit of speed up it starts
to get extremely hairy and a lot of fun. It’s
wooded, rooty and rooky with jumps, drops and steep v.steep
sections, the top times are about 4 and a half mins,
fantastic.
The third permanent course is The Grand Conch and is
in Switzerland, it’s possible to ride there without
too much hassle as the lift system takes you in the right
direction.
It takes about an hour or more using at least
4 different lifts to get there, but it was is well worth
it. The course it self is best described in 2 sections
the top being a fairly wide track cut into the side of
the mountain. It has bus stops along it’s length with
jumps and burms, this track has a rock wall on one side
and an extremely steep drop on the other.
The lower half
is fast and twisty with v. steep tight burms and a
massive wall ride of a burm after a bridge that’s brilliant so good that you almost forget to come back down before it finishes. The chair lift runs from the end of the course up to 2250meters, then you have to ride about 400 meters to the start, but this is steep and insanely fast in it’s self. We only spent a few hours here and never got round to
going back but it’s defiantly worth the trip. The
single track around the area is fantastic, the tracks
above Les Gets are fast, rooty and rooky which is the
norm.
Morzine has what has got to be the best single
track ever, called the Super Morzine, it’s amazing,
long and so much fun it hurts your ribs because you’ll
laugh like a mad man all the way down.
We spent a week in Les Gets staying with Alp Active more...
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