Champery holiday

From what I remember, Champery has a little bit of xc stuff. There's a route going up the valley and over, I think, Col du Mine D'or, which lads down to Morzine, then it's a good ride back without too much downhill stuff.

Thing with the Alps is there are tons of stuff to do thats not extreme. There's also a train that stops in Champery so you can ride down the valley and get it back up again.

Best advice, there's books on routes in the Portes Du Soleil. Pick one up before you go and plan some routes.

Col du Joux Plane is the ridge of the plateau above Morzine and over the mountain from Les Gets.

To get to it, if using an mtb, you get the cablecar up from Champery, ride down a fairly easy downhill into Les Crosets, up the Mosettes Suisse and either down Puncture Alley, which is a really rough fireroad, or you can take a nice sort of footpath past Lac Vert and down to Les Lindarets, then you go up the lift to Avoriaz, nice long road ride down into Morzine, up the Pleney, round to Les Gets, then up Chavannes, down into Nauchettes, up the Nauchettes lift and you're at the start of a ridge that goes up to Col du Joux Plane.

Other option is to do the Col du Cou from Champery straight down to Morzine, then just ride up to Joux Plane if you've already done a huge climb.

If roadriding it, you'll be going down the hill to Troistorrents, up to Morgins, Chatel, down past Abondance and over the Col du Corbier, up the valley through Le Biot and St Jean D'Aulps to morzine, through Morzine and up into Joux Plane. Not a short ride. Would take at least 90min in a car.

If you used the lifts to get there though, most of the ones away from Morzine shut around 5ish, so you have to plan carefully and watch the time.