My hardtail journey

[2manyoranges]

Nice location and photos - desperately looking at the profile of the mountains in the horses-head-bench shot and at the lake in the first one - I assume just South of Lake Geneva in the Thonon area? But that's just a wild stab.

 

[rigidftw]

Thanks! That‘s the Weissensee, Carinthia in Austria.

 

[2manyoranges]

grief I was totally off - even the wrong nation!

that sort of trail was completely illegal there until recently...

https://www.tetongravity.com/mountain-biking-in-austria/