Geneva!
Lake Geneva
breakfast at Hotel Bel Esperiance
We started off with some tough riding on Geneva's free bike rentals
so we found a couch to kick back on
Explosive fun!
I couldn't help myself
parks in Geneva are awesome
beer and pizza in the park
United Nations
We even found a cool brewpub!
Getting picked up by Big Mountain Bike Tours
More Stragler's in Montroux
Vineyards everywhere in the Rhone Valley!
Arriving in Lourtier, our home for the next 8 days.
From our hotel balcony
The views on our first ride were just ok.
Our new International friends. Canadians Debby and Scott on the left and Christoph from Switzerland on the right.
Freewheeler in Switzerland sighting
Rain Finish
View towards Verbier from our hotel room.
Lourtier, Switzerland
Big Mountain Owner, Chris Winter on right.
All Aboard! Look at Chris's HUGE bike!
Verbier
The Alps are Awesome!
Up 3000' in 15 minutes, not bad.
“Big Mountain puts the V in Vacation!”
Guide Joe Schwartz, always hamming it up.
Tunnels for bikes up here?
Yep
Can these views continue like this?
Huffman's in the Alps.
Yoh!
Other side of the Mountain, Rhone Valley.
We found a real Swiss Fester going on...
...with music...
...cheese (roclette)...
...horns...
Freebird!
...wrestling...
...and weird hair growth!
A major contour around the mountain leads to another Gondola.
with some decent views
we're up there
white out coming
rare moment we put on jackets
Heading down for a few hours
Is that a house?
Do you think they have beer in there?
It's a Hut!
this one's for Barbara
the Biscuits
classic Swiss Hut shot
map of our view, notice Mt. Blanc on left
thank goodness for the map
Darrel on the Beece
our Leader, Chris
Are we in Nam?
Road block
Swiss farmers, notice bottle of wine in hand!
AlpenBabe
Is this narrow enough, Vernon?!
This is SWEET!
That was a mandatory walk Paul, eh...
...so was that...NOT
Do trails avoid these little Swiss Villages?
Nope
Happy
Load up for day 3
Local weedeater
We offloaded on this...
Dam!
??
We rode around this lake...
...through tunnels...
...widows in tunnels...
...views...
...flowers...
...hike-a-bikes...
...up towards the pass to....
The Swiss Italian boarder.
Chris and Paul Nam
He rode that peak behind him too!
Look at these views!
Eidelwise, Eidelwise...
We're going to descend this for 4 hours??
Can you do this?
You wish you were here, don't you?
Clean this!
"get me out of here"
Dinner down there in Aosta, Italy, after a 4 hour decent
Italian Hospitality in the wine cave, sans showers.
Are we going to ride this?
Sobering finish
Rhone Valley
Riding through vineyards can lead to....
....tocacco abuse. Notice Chris's SWEET PI jersey drying!
Uh Oh!
On day five we found a nice water trough
We rode sweet single track into Grementz...
...the most well preserved & authentic Swiss village...
with cool fountains...
...and fresh spring water everywhere...
...the homes are built on flat stones for rodent protection.
Back to modernism, another tram
Hi!
Swiss Romper
we found a sweet meadow
We heard bagpipes so we followed our ears and found this homestead
beer and bagpipes
Ricola, Ricola, Ricola
Day 7, Kiss & Ride anyone?
waiting for the train to Zermott
first views of the Matterhorn
For Michael
the Matterhorn
The cog railway, 5000 feet up, 3 times this day!
Hucked a glacier lately?
It's in the glasses now
Meters, not feet
Pause slide show NOW!!! We spent one hour here is awe.
The views just kept a coming, and the riding....
....kept on flowing!
that is 12 inch tread and really is as good as it looks
Zermott from the trail
Debbie and Robin
What a biscuit, eh?
Some walk, some ride
!!
Does this mean bikes ok or bikes not ok??
When in doubt, Hit it!
Switchbacks, eh?
Eat your heart out Ron.
Freewheeler sighting in Zermatt.
Frame it!
pinch me
How can we beat this?
Beer will work...and yes...long live LONG RIDES!
Back to our last night in Lourtier at Hotel La Vallee...
..and our last Roclett our health can handle.
We hope you enjoyed our pictures! Cheers, the Huffman's Next show, ITALY!
