Emmeline Ragot and Fionn Griffiths left flowmtb on Tuesday to get to Champery for this weekend’s World Cup.
Qualifying today was in really tough conditions. The rain came down heavy last night and continued throughout most of the day. The Champery World Cup track is known for being tough in the best of conditions, when wet it’s super slippery.
Emmeline finished third just behind her compatriots Myriam Nicole and Sabrina Jonnier. flowmtb sponsored Fionn Griffiths finished 15th despite a massive crash that meant she had to head back up the hill for her bike.
It’s a sad day today. 4X and DH star Fionn Griffiths and DH World Champ Emmeline Ragot have been staying at flowmtb, along with Fionn’s mechanic Dougie, for nearly a month now. European Junior DH champ Bernard Kerr joined them for the last few days. But today they packed up the van to head for the World Cup at Champery, then a crazy few weeks of flying over the world to races.
Good luck in Champery!
Just a few of the comments we’ve received via email in the last week or so:
Still on a massive high after our trip and we are all just itching to get back out there! don’t think I thanked you while we were there, but I just want to say thank you very much for such an amazing holiday! Everything was better than we expected jess and phil were great jess is an absolute jem! All of us still can’t stop going on about how good the trip was and we’ve had loads of people saying they will be heading out to stay with you guys!!
Just wanted to say a quick thanks for helping to make a really excellent week, it was a 40th birthday treat to myself!
Chalet Snion was excellent, everything was well organised and a great bunch of guests.
We’ll definitely be back and look to use FlowMTB again, either for PdS or more likely Mega next year!
Missing the riding already…
I would just like to say thanks for having us for the week. We all had a really great time and the newbies are wanting to come back already.
The chalet was really nice, the best i have ever stayed in. All the staff from flowmtb and torico were really friendly and made us feel welcome. Flowmtb will definitely be recommended to other bikers i know.
First of all I’ll like to say thanks for an awesome week in Alpe d’Huez. Would it be possible to put my name down for next year.
We’re all stoked to be receiving such great comments. Keep them coming 
After a crazy few days of Morzine being full of roadies and tourists watching the Tour, it’s all back to normal again. Yesterday morning the riders signed on to ride in Morzine centre then left by the Tourist Office and headed off through Les Gets. We watched them ride past the flowmtb chalet and start another gruelling day of riding.
It’s been fun seeing Morzine go through Tour fever, but now it’s back to the turn of mountain bikes to rule!
The flowmtb team have just returned to Morzine from the Alpe d’huez Megavalanche. We were lucky enough to have Emmeline Ragot, Fionn Griffiths and Petra Wiltshire with us for the week. And Dougie, Fionn’s mechanic to help out too!
DH World Champ Emmeline stormed the ladies race on Saturday speeding into second place just behind Anne-Caroline Chausson. Norco World Cup team rider (and flowmtb sponsored) Fionn made it into 9th, despite having to do the race on her DH bike - anyone who’s done it will know how tough that made the climbs! Petra made it up to race despite a big crash in qualifying leaving her far back in the starting grid and carrying an injured wrist, and rolled into 26th.
We’ve just heard that as the Tour de France riders passed the flowmtb chalet Eurosport picked it up!
The Tour de France has just passed through Morzine, finishing on the climb up to Avoriaz. We managed to sneak out to watch them as they started the last long climb to Avoriaz, pretty spread out.
Fionn Griffiths pulled up to the flowmtb chalet a few days before Pass’Portes in the Norco World Cup team van, along with Emmeline Ragot and Fionn’s mechanic Dougie. They’re with us in Morzine (apart from a quick trio to Alpe d’Huez for the Megavalanche) through to the Champery World Cup in mid July. They’re always lots of fun to have around and this weeks guests have kept themselves busy chasing them round the mountain!
Lots of other World Cup riders seem to be in Morzine at the moment too. Chain Reaction’s vans are all over the place, along with a fair few other teams.
I guess you can’t really beat Morzine and the Portes du Soleil as a DH mountain bike rider’s training ground. Fantastic lift access, loads of trails and decent night life. Plus for those lucky enough to stay at flowmtb, plenty of cake and big dinners each night!
