Actually I know the trails there reasonably well and he’ll be going down sensible stuff.

Full suss booked, big brother giving advice, starting to get excited now.

Green on the chavannes should be fine. Didn’t do the Mont Chery one this year but was ok from memory.

It really depends how well he listens ….

My 7yr old has problems listening…. I know we were doing one of the rougher parts of FOD (indeed we had to stop because adult an DH bike wiped out) and I told him to do a jump left or right convinced he’d die if he took the centreline (due to the landing and him being on a XC hard tail) … he completely ignored me and landed OK … but I don’t know how….

The biggest thing to watch out for IMHO are any landings where a smaller wheel just won’t roll if it lands first.
Then it’s up to them listening …

He’ll be rolling it. Greens and maybe a bit of blue.

The Chavannes green is one of my favourite trails. Picturesque and chilled for the most part. Nowt that’ll kill him.

We took Abigale and Katie to Morzine and Verbier when Abigale was 6. Looking back I would probably do the same again. Dosent look to have done them any damage.

Indeed.

His big brother was riding there at 8. I’m sure he’ll be fine.

Nice riverside path ride from morzine to les gets for family type riding

Nice riverside path ride from morzine to les gets for family type riding

Eh? Les gets is up there *wafts finger towards far side of pint of beer* and the river goes over there *prods pint in other direction *

The dranse trail goes up towards lac du mine d’or and down past St Jean d’Aulps but there’s no riverside route to les gets.

Enjoy…

In that case, I stand corrected friends who live there told me that there’s a multiuse path that goes from the tennis courts/pool upwards. I dunno?

Have fun. We’ll be heading out there shortly with my 2*10 & 8 yr olds.

The greens are pretty steep for greens but only in patches.

There is a riverside flat path with an overgrown little pump track down by Samoens which is fine for a nice picnic family ride.

BTW there’s also a pump track just outside St Jean d’Aulps near the riverside path that goes down stream from morzine. Taking the boys there one day and will report back

Went to Les Gets Cranworx woth my 7 yr old last year.
Awesome place,can’t wait to go back.
Tracks were great,my son struggled with the braking bumps,so we stopped a few times going down the tracks.
Some footage here.

https://www.pinkbike.com/video/448170/

there’s also a pump track just outside St Jean d’Aulps

Misapprehension. There’s not much pump track, the “parcours pump track” consists of a few logs in the grass next to the track 🙁

But as ever the dranse trail is perfect for the kids. Jr Jr even managed a good spill on a short but sharp downhill so he has now learnt modulated brake control…

I’d say 6 ways a bit young but my lad gets pretty scared at anything out of his comfort zone. Loves pump tracks just gets massively intimidated by the downhills and forgets all the basics (like braking even).

If you’re son’s keen then why not?

Video of a mate (Alvar Coppard) following his son last week. His son is about 7 or 8 I think, Alvar is middle adged and broke his wrist in the video

Depends on the kids ability – this one has loads 🙂

Good news!

There is a pump track now built next to the skate park in the sports area of town.

Bad news! Stoner Jr Jr didn’t make it around a single lap before doing this to himself. Doh.

Oh crap. Healing vibes to stoner_jr…

We jumped onto the pump track, lasted about 2 feet before we realised it was lethal and jumped straight back off. Almost zero grip on it 😯

Ouch. Feeling slight queasy on his behalf. At least the medical staff round there ought to know something about broken bones.

Are you staying out there or heading home?

Nah we’re staying for another week. He’s not too bothered by it. Doc in the medical cabinet got it all reset nicely (LH photo) bit of an annoyance having a cast for the rest of the hols though. Means no rugby camp or tennis camp for the little fella.

Let’s hear it for ski resort doctors. Not to good with eating disorders (except raclette abuse) but excellent with impact injuries.