I haven’t been up the mountain since the closing day of the ski season & that was months ago. So it felt quite good to be in the Prarion cable car in Les Houches with my mate and a couple of mountain bikes. It’s the first time I’ve done this – downhill mountain biking and I was definitely feeling that I should have some more body armour on. I had my ski helmet on, but my shins and arms felt very exposed to getting chopped up by the spiky metal mountain bike shaking underneath me as I careered down the tracks at speeds which meant stopping without crashing wasn’t something you could rely on.

Sure enough I did fall off the damn thing a few times – and today I’m covered in bruises and scrapes. It’s fun though – I reckon I could definitely do it more. But I’m going to get myself armoured up next time.

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A run down from the Prarion lift in Les Houches takes about 30-45 mins depending on how long you spend picking your bike up out of the bushes . We were back at the van at about 4pm, just in time for me to meet up with the mountaingirl at Gaylands to go climbing for a couple of hours of easy climbing.

I was knackered but happy by the end of the day – finally getting back into doing some sports after getting a out of the habit for the last few months.

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