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Day 1: Arrival in Les 2 Alpes

URT Day 1 2 Alpes

Day 1: Arrival in Les 2 Alpes. After a 6 hour drive from our base in central Switzerland we finally arrived at the first bike park of the URT – Les Deux Alpes. There is definitely a big few days ahead with the Mondial du VTT. We’ve just been for a walk through town to check things out and saw the Commençal and Santa Cruz teams setting up. And there is some serious building going on – check out these images of the ramps (we’ll get some more with the pros actually riding them soon enough)…

Only a few riders were trickling down through the jumps in the park and no-one was around when we took the pics, but these just give you an idea of the options available as you get off the mountain and back into town. There are drops for all abilities so you can start small and build up gradually as your confidence and skill increases. Useful really, don’t especially want to launch the road gap on day 1

Back in town we bumped into some guys with a pretty cool machine...

We tried to convince them to ride the ramps but they were having none of it. We might borrow the bike tomorrow and race the La Mavic Free Trail Enduro with it. But then again we probably wont! Totally forgot that the glacier here is open for skiing and boarding in the summer – funny to see guys hanging out in board pants carrying skis and boards at the end of June. But it gives a great option if you were here for a week and wanted a break from the bike – plenty of hire shops around. Not gonna happen for us though – too many trails to ride on the bike. So generally a real sense of anticipation in town this evening with everyone arriving and setting up stands and bikes. Which is actually exactly what we need to do now as well.

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