Glaciers seen from La Grande Motte in Tignes.
Mountain rescue by winch from a mountain bike trail next to the Palafours ski lift at Tignes Le Lac. This is one bonus of “descent” mountain biking – if you are well insured you get a free helicopter ride.
Under Les Tufs ski lift. This is normally a black ski run and off piste in the winter – but only qualifies as a blue bike trail! This is the “kangaroo” trail. Great fun – but way too easy! Good perhaps for building speed and confidence but not technical and certainly not dangerous. True enough – the “red” trails are more technical and interesting – but the “blacks” are in places I wouldn’t even ski off piste in winter and are a quantum leap in technical difficulty. Admittedly i don’t have a “downhill” bike with enormous shocks and the right geometry – but there are spots where if you fell off nothing would stop you from tumbling down the mountain.