Camping Le Clos du Jay
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The half way point
... again today. In fact, above the tree line where it is very rugged, remote and isolated, and still there are cyclists!! They must have legs of steel! I hit my PB on tunnels today: 10 tunnels, 2 avalanche shelters. Some of the tunnels today, given the location are very basic. Hewn out rock, very narrow - barely room for 2 cars to pass and a 50 watt light bulb every 100 metres. A little daunting. Not much to see in the mountain passes but we did spot a very ...
Gap
Modane, Col du Télégraphe, du Galibier et du Lautaret avec Franck, un allemand à sacoches rencontré sur la route. Briançon, Col de l'Izoard, Embrun et le lac du Serre-Ponçon. Pause de deux jours à Gap voir les gars de l'atelier de Mobil'idées et la cousine de ...
Three Passes
... tyres.
At the top of the pass I met a bunch of motorcyclists coming down the hill so obviously there was no Route Barre sign at the other end. That, or they had also ignored it and ridden around it like me.
Halfway down the other side of the mountain I ran into the slowest French driver in France. I was stuck behind him for a while and then managed to overtake, only to be overtaken by him when I stopped to take a photo. We leapfrogged ...
Alps!!! French ones
... the whole "old" town but could not find the public WC. Just as I was beginning to think I would have to buy a coffee in a cafe in order to use the ladies (kinda defeats the purpose really), I spotted the sign about 10m from where I'd left the bike.
Comfortable once more, I set off to climb even higher. I passed through Allos which is one of France's most famous ski fields and rode on the shittiest ...
Day 4
We awoke this morning in Gap to sunshine. It felt quite cool when I did my post-breakfast walk outside, so we all dressed for slightly chilly weather. Tom led us about a km down the street to get us started in the right direction, then he and Henry headed off to do today's alternate route which was completely different than the nominal one. The rest of us were delighted to have a relativel easy day of 67 km.
The day started with a climb, which while ...
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