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Beautiful mild day today so persuaded my neighbour to come up to Beauregard (La Clusaz) for a tootle about. Absolutely stunning. My first off road ride since a knee operation in June and am so happy to have done it. Got a bit emotional! Good mix of terrain and my first go with flats for years (didn't fancy being clipped in with the dodgy knee).
Now what was that about Surrey hills being full..... 🙂
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blimey that looks great, v jealous!
I was about to tell you that I hate you, but then I saw you'd been off the bike for ages, so instead it's a 'well done that man' from me! 🙂
You can go off some people
Yeah sorry! My Mrs is from here. Real bummer of a place to live 8)
I've boarded their....looks ace without snow,well done!
Nice riding up there, did you do the rooty trail along the ridge? If not, it's one of my firm favourites!
We started in Croix Fry then climbed up to the top of the Beauregard, and messed about up on the plateau before heading back to the car via Colomban and a rooty descent to Croix Fry.
Do you mean the trail all the back into Thones? Would like to give that a go sometime.
Both are good, I meant the one you rode though I think. Only short but I had great fun careering down it in the wet the other year as part of a mammoth link using the uplifts.
@adyp - not hard to get emotional when in such a stunning place
If you can share some trail tips/routes/comments etc on La Clusaz I'd be very interested, on here or email in profile. It's one of the places I have on "want to investigate" list, didn't get there this year
I'm probably not the best person to ask as I'm just beginning to discover it myself having only just got back into MTBing. I'm very much a novice as I'd only done HT bridleway/southdowns riding whilst in the UK before moving here at the back end of 2008. I bought my first FS bike at the end of last year and did a couple of days scaring myself in La Clusaz and on the Semnoz. I had great plans for this year which were scuppered in April when I snapped my ACL skiing....doh!
Just in, some dramatic video footage of a baldy middle-aged bloke with a hurty knee tootling carefully down a gentle slope yesterday!!! Just to practice youtube upload (my first go) and to try and persuade some roadie friends to ditch the lycra every now and then!