Ja, Champery is proper steep. The track is a serious wake up call to steep, technical DH! We did one run down and if we never had the current SA Champ with us (who had raced the track the previous year) I seriously would have reconsidered being on the track. We sessioned our way down the hill and managed to make it down without serious incident. I have no idea how the guys race that thing... It is serious business that! Super-morzine was awesome. I recall our 1st run back into town using the route. We were all kind of rattled when we got down. The whites of every ones eyes were very visible but as it became our local run back into twon things got way easier... Then myself and a mate who had spent some time riding the off-piste unmarked trails got cocky and found what we thought was an awesome chute short-cutting a big switchback you do towards the end of the trail. We called it... THE CHUTE OF DEATH!!! it was just a crazy steep straight chute for well over 100m, none of the usual catch berms to control your speed on the way down, just changes in gradient, from fvck off steep to my brakes are sort of slowing me down. I ended up trying to contour out of the CHUTE OF DEATH which was working until I hit a tree. Good times! I CANT WAIT TO GO BACK!!!!
