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Well the season is finally upon us - it’s great to have a table full of guests all getting to know each other over a bite to eat and a glass of vino or two.

We’ve been riding the local tracks off the Pleney lift and once the Les Gets lift opened last weekend we were using that as well.

There’s been some day trips over to Switzerland: namely our favorite train spotters venue of Rochers de Naye high above Montreux. A great day was had with over 3500m of decent in fairly dry conditions - followed by a beer by the lake before heading back up to the Chalet.

Saturday saw the Champery cable car open and us lot using it to the full. We tried out the world famous Champery World Cup course…. our respect for those guys (and girls) shot up by a 1000% - the course is immense. Unbelievably steep & rooty!

Today was time to try out the Super Morzine side of the valley for the first time this season - we uplifted our guests to Avoriaz where they split into two groups - one taking a more direct route home under the Prodain cable car, whilst the other descended via Les Lindarets. A top muddy, wet, slidey day was had by all.

The forecast is now for Sun Sun and more sun - about time too - although riding in the wet ain’t all that bad!

Guy

Andy’s off under the cable car.

more photos here

Rochers de Naye routes

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

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Check out the other Rochers de Naye videos here and here

Rochers de Naye Video 2

We took a trip back to Roshers de Naye on Wednesday - here’s some footage (we’ve been trying out new camera positions!)

Rochers de Naye Video

Here’s a short 4 min video from our trip to Rochers de Naye on Tuesday. Enjoy :)

(press the play button to get it started)

Music is Tom Vek - I Ain’t Saying My Goodbyes