Speed Riding in Chamonix

Speed Riding in Chamonix

As of January 2008, the rules for speedriding are set to the following:

SPEEDRIDING BEGINNER LEARNING AREAS:
Grands Montets
- Glacier du Rognon slopes
- Combe de la Pendant (left sector) with the landing either down the bottom close to the alpage chalets or in Lavancher away from the cross country tracks.

Le Tour / Balme
- To the left of the Piste du Chatelet, with the landing between the Charamillon home piste and the Vormaine ski area.
- To the right of the Posettes piste, away from the draglift piste, with the landing below the draglift.

SPEEDRIDING AREAS
Brévent/ Flégère
- West face of Brévent
- Ensa couloir
- Belin couloir
- Hotel face, with the landing to the left of the Blanchots blue piste
- Combe Lachenal, starting at the bottom of the Combe, and with a landing under the Aiguille Pourrie

OTHER RULES
- The ski areas must be open
- Forbidden to fly less than 100m over the lift cables
- Forbidden to fly closer than 100m to any building or cable
- Forbidden to fly less than 50m over pistes
- Forbidden to fly closer than 50m to the pistes

http://www.chamonix.net/english/speed_riding/regulations.htm