Has Crankworx Found a New European Home?

 agreed

 Yeah it will be killer! Pleney will be good for a open DH race if they build some extra features/lines for the black run. Super Morzine/Les Gets would be a sick location for air DH and Whip Offs. As for the Slopestyle it's gonna be cool to see what they come up with. Oh yeah what about the "E" word? Ahaha

 Other areas have done a pretty good job and I cannot see this being any different. SO MANY STOPS!

 They'd have to have game in the first place in order to step up it up...they have the worst bikepark in the PDS by far...talk about badly shaped trails...still this is their opportunity to do things right. Wish them the best of luck.

 That's quite true. Been there 2 years ago and it was my first time at PDS. When I first took the Chavannes I started to panic like "What?! I am going to ride these motorways all week long?" Fortunately there was a black line to the right and there was Morzine. :-D

 Les Gets has improved massively from when I first went there in 2012. Spent 6 weeks in the PDS this summer and I got quite fond of the riding there, especially as to the very end of the season they were building a lot of new tracks for 2016.

 6 weeks, i only managed 3 days !

 Les gets and morzine trails are really, honestly, pretty bad. They only let french locals build and they are all ski bums who have no idea what they are doing.

 Thanks for the praise. I'd be awesome to have Crankworx at Chatel!

 crankworx should be at snow summit/big bear every year.

would be the best move they could ever do.

 as opposed to whistler?

you might be crazy

 duh. of course not INSTEAD of whistler, but something to replace the winterpark stop on the c- worx schedule. c-worx needs an American stop, and a so cal spot would be the best.

 The dirt is sculptor's clay.

 Les Deux Alpes is a great place it just doesn't do any maintenance on it's trails unfortunately. Les Gets has good dirt they just lack good trail builders but that might change with this event. They also do zero maintenance throughout the season.

 Looks to be full of rocks. Of course, that's just from what I've seen from edits and recap videos. Compared to the Les Deux Alps course, the Rotorua and Whistler courses were on another level. The whole L2A course seemed a bit unprofessional.

 We were out there for the end of the season and the guys at Alex Gets were repairing trails daily, I just think they get a hammering and have a small build team. Imagine how pissed peopl would be if they closed Chavanes for an afternoon? It's got to be the busiest track in Europe.

I love the PDS and try to stop off there for a bit every year, but I think it needs updating. They've done good week in Chatel and Morzine over the last 2 seasons and hopefully this will help sort out Les Gets.

I think there's a greater need for Enduro/Lift assisted XC/All Mountain (whatever you want to call it) trails and better links to the other resorts in the PDS.

I don't mind a bit of pedalling as long as it's worth it (and not too much)

 @CustardCountry
1-If a track is well built then it will require less maintenance i.e. avoid long steep straight lines, use uphill section to cut down the speed, etc
2-Closing a track for the day or for just the morning to touch it up is surely better than leaving it open and not doing anything at all
3-Maintenance can also be done after the lift closes like they do in winter
It is all about having a good trail crew and some organization

 oh I will get so negative proped for that @dougies
I agree - was there once for nearly a week (we left earlier) - could not see all the hype about it, but I can also not see why Kitzbühel is that good for wintersports.

But hey at least there ist a european crankworx stopp :-)

 Les Gets is reasonable at the beginning of the season when the trails are still fresh. Though they still aren't very well made...then with zero maintenance they turn to shit for the rest of the season. I never got the hype with Les Gets. I figured out the hype behind Morzine (the local "secret" trails are great) because officially they only have 3 trails on the Pleney. Super Morzine doesn't count because it is i.e. Morzine was talked about WAY before those trails existed. Still I hope they take this opportunity to develop the bikepark.

 I rode both morzine and les gets a couple years back, knowing the main tracks were going to be f*cked but with guys that knew of some unofficial stuff from previous years. Turns out the secret stuff was no longer secret and just as blown out as the main tracks. Im sure there wouldve been more stuff to find but thats really not what you expect to have to do when you go to a 'bike park'. Pila/Aosta Valley in Italy isnt that much further and is so so so much much better. Same with Alp Duez. Hopefully people dont catch on to that though lol

 so @dougies and I were not to only ones who were disappointed - the tracks who can be accessed via padeling (tried to avoid enduro - turned out to be quite long ;-) ) should also be good and that is also the only reason why I would go back

 Upper Morzine is alright at the top, but they really need to sort out an official trail all the way to the bottom. It's alright if you're happy with the unofficial steep roots tracks in the woods, but a green/blue and a red to the town would be good

 @CustardCountry Do you mean on the Super Morzine side of the hill or the Pleney? The Pleney has plenty of blues, reds and greens all the way from top to bottom.

The Supermorzine stuff is trickier. I believe most of the land under the Super Morzine lift is privately owned by lots of different people so getting tracks built officially on that side is extremely difficult.

Over in Les Gets the main Chavannes line is pretty blown out. It's also not very steep. It would be good to get a new top to bottom line on there. The Mont Chery side is steeper but again has a bunch of private land to deal with and spectator access on that side would be poor.

 not more, it replaces L2A