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  • Speed Riding and Kite Surfing in Chamonix - The Rules

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    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

    KITESURFING AREAS

    Le Tour / Balme
    - Only allowed in the Posettes sector


    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