Wow, we’ve been busy! Trying to get lots of stuff sorted before we leave Morzine and head South chasing the sun. We’re not quite done everything we wanted to, but near enough. So today we checked the camping gear, packed up our favourite biking gear, plus lots of food and sorted out our bikes. Tomorrow we’re heading for Provence, then it’s onto the Pyrenees. A short city break in Barcelona then a drive down the coast to the Sierra Nevada before catching the ferry to Morocco. A few days of orientation and riding in Marrakech and the Atlas Mountains before two weeks of tours in the High Atlas, then some sightseeing and the long drive home. Not a bad way to pass a couple of months!
We’ve got all kinds of fancy stuff like car chargers for phones and laptops and even a blackberry so we can stay in contact. So if you want to get in touch just do so as usual. I’m still finding emails on the blackberry a novelty so expect a quick reply!
So the sun was shining here yesterday - what better way to spend my day than riding over at Rochers de Naye. The train runs all year round, so you can get uplifts with out being confined to ski lift opening times.. added to that the riding over there is awesome.
I took along our new GPS toy to see how it works and what it records… the verdict is good - take a look at this screenshot to see how much riding we did. Almost 4,000 meters of descent in a day. Not bad eh 
I’ve also added the routes to our findyourflow route thingamajig
Check out the other Rochers de Naye videos here and here
After some late night cleaning up of my laptop (sad eh!) - I found this - a GPX route for the Mega Avalanche race. I must have plotted it on my Memory Map software after getting back from the race last year - So anyway I’ve added it onto the findyourflow page, and also took a look at it on Google Earth - looks pretty nice I think! (click the pic below to make it bigger)
Oh and you can look at it (and the other routes on the findyourflow page) by downloading the route (from that page again - select it from the route drop down and click the save as link) and opening it up in Google Earth.
Sadly it doesn’t have the height data, but I may be able to fix that… maybe.
And thinking about it, I might do a little screenshot from google earth to accompany each route.. looks nice!
I’ve been busy beavering away at a new route and ride page for the flowmtb website. What I came up with is no more than the joining of two ideas already out there on the web.
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