Below the jump park, there’s a fun green run down into the village. It’s a long off-road section through the woods followed by lots of hairpin bends on a stretch of road.
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Les Gets 2007 – Riding down to the jump park
To get to the jump park involves riding down from the top lift on a series of berms. It’s a fun little ride down, although Jon did manage to come a cropper on it. You may notice me pause on the track before dropping down into a berm. Apparently that’s where Jon got himself a concussion!
Les Gets 2007 – Shooting the rapids
The second of the helmet cam movies is mostly a view of my hands working the paddle as I try to follow the orders of our river guide Manu.
Les Gets 2007 – Jumping in the river
The mtb-thrashers are now back from their trip to Les Gets, a village in the French Alps renowned for mountain biking. You can find all Jon’s quality photos at mtb-thrashers.com, but as well as that good stuff, I managed to get some helmet-cam footage. It’s hard work getting the camera pointing in the right direction, so to be honest there was a lot of wasted footage. However, I reckon I managed to pull together some almost watchable segments. But I’ll let you decide…
First of all, on a day of rafting we had to climb up a large rock and jump into the rapids. I did this wearing a helmet cam which hopefully captures a feel of the event.
Ant and Jen’s wedding
My wee bro Antony married his very-long-term girlfriend Jenny on 7th October 2006. I didn’t take many photos of the event, but here I present some of the better ones.
