Afternoon in La Clusaz

We spent the afternoon last sunday in la clusaz, we chucked the bikes on the roof of the diesel dog and headed up there around 1pm with the plan to meet up with Arnaud and Thomas...a couple of dudes from salomon and mavic. We didn't manage to hook up with arnaud until the last run of the day but we managed to hit a good 5 runs with thomas. He showed us some of the hidden freeride tracks of the back side of cret du loup, they were awsome!! steep, technical with super soft dirt and knarly switchbacks. Dan..ger managed to do one over the handle bars straight into a tree on one of the steepest descents ive riden, even with full brake lock...you weren't stopping, and to add to that the large rocks with 50cm drops didn't really help that much.

We also tore up the crete du loup track and the 4x track which is just dreamy to shred, sooooo fast and bermy with smooth jumps and sweet transitions. Just a shame the section is so short, but i guess nothings perfect right!

For the last run we hit up the northshore section in the forest with arnaud, we spent about 1 hour in there just messin around on the drops and ladder bridges...while doing a bit of filming with the 550d. Good fun and we got a few nice shots.....still learning alot about the settings of this camera but its starting to look pretty decent. We used mainly static shots on the tripod with a few short pans....but the real exciting stuff will come at the end of this week. We just received the glide track yesterday from scotland...its a 75cm smooth glide system thats gonna gve some cool effects to the camera movement when were next out shooting. So Tignes at the end of the week, free lift passes, 2 days shreddin', sunshine, ice cold beers!!! lifes good! - wazza

Just a few short clips of the shots we got