We arrived to heavy clouds, cool temperatures and muddy trails – quite a novelty after a summer of dust but I felt perfectly at home. The first ride involved a long slog to get above the clouds surrounded by rugged, wild mountains. Unexpectedly we turned straight into a really fun man-made mountain bike trail full of jumps and berms to descent 100s of metres back down to St Moritz where it was time for a bit of boutique shopping.




The next day the weather cleared up just in time for an epic technical freeride day up to the Survetta Pass. This was the kind of ride where you could stop and take a photo every ten meters, filled with views of glaciers, turquoise lakes, empty valleys and high peaks. Steep climbing was rewarded with a technical traverse along the edge of a mountainside with a disconcerting drop of the edge and kilometers of perfect, fast narrow singletrack descents. Eventually we made it to the Survetta pass, a desolate empty valley with a beautiful glacial lake, and from there one of the best technical rocky descents I’ve ever ridden. More of the same the next day followed by a stunning train ride swooping down 1000s of meters back down to Zurich.












With this kind of thing on the doorstep it’s very difficult to justify going to work on a Monday morning…