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Dec 12, 2021 • 10 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X
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1/Just for fun: A list of favourite huge paved cycling climbs that are NOT well known. #1 Lago del Narèt - My favourite climb in Switzerland .... 32 kms up, quiet, stunning, many dams/lakes. 11th highest paved climb in Switzerland. #cycling Details: cycling-challenge.com/lago-di-naret/ ImageImageImageImage
2/ Plan du Lac. 7th highest paved climb in France at 2385 metres. Near the south side of Col de l'Iseran. Very quiet, dead end. Details: cycling-challenge.com/plan-du-lac-2/ ImageImageImageImage
3. Grosse Scheidegg is one of the most beautiful, climbs in the Alps. But I think it's reasonably well know, BUT beside it, under the Eiger North Face, is a deserted paved road to Männlichen. (I rode just beyond summit for 2 photos). Details: cycling-challenge.com/mannlichen/ ImageImageImageImage
4/ Col du Sabot. Much higher and far, far, far quieter than its famous neighbour Alpe d'Huez. Love this climb. And don't worry, it has plenty of hairpins too. Details: cycling-challenge.com/col-du-sabot-a… ImageImageImageImage
5/ Lac du Vieux Emosson. You might have heard of the fabulous Swiss climb to Lac/Dam d'Emosson. Fabulous. But did you know you can ride across the dam and up to a higher dam on a tiny, steep, amazing road. Details: cycling-challenge.com/lac-demosson-a…. (Higher dam visible in 4th photo) ImageImageImageImage
6/ The Pyrénées? Easily my favourite climb is La Route des Lacs including Lac de Cap de Long. Higher than Tourmalet, 5 dams/lakes. Forks to two high points/lakes. Epic. Details: cycling-challenge.com/lac-de-cap-de-… ImageImageImageImage
7/ Col de la Moutière. Behind Cime de la Bonette (one of highest roads in Europe) Moutière is the 5th highest paved road in France! It's a turn off early in the climb of south side of Bonette. A gravel extension allows an off-road to Bonette. Details: cycling-challenge.com/col-de-la-bone… ImageImageImageImage
8/ You may know the gigantic Grimselpass in central Switzerland. But it is possible to continue even higher on a little known extension, often closed to cars. It leads to Oberaarsee - and is the 5th highest paved climb in Switzerland. Details: cycling-challenge.com/oberaarsee-abo… ImageImageImageImage
9/ Lots of my favourite climbs are to high alpine dams. The Swiss Valais region is full of these rides. The climb to Lac de Moiry is only 36 kms long! It's the 6th highest paved road in France. Details: cycling-challenge.com/lac-de-moiry-a… ImageImageImage
10/ Maybe I'll just finish with this old post detailing 28 great climbs to alpine dams/lakes as many of them are lesser known, and all are fabulous. Sanetsch, Griessee ,Teleccio, Nivolet, Sassière, Mauvoisin, Mattmarksee, etc. etc. Details: cycling-challenge.com/10-great-cycli… //THE END ImageImageImageImage

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Jul 18, 2022
10/ First 9 climbs are paved dead-ends. A major reason why never in Tour. Next climb is a through road but perhaps a touch narrow. But truly astounding.
Col de la Machine via Combe Laval. (just have the publicity caravan bypass the climb!) Details: cycling-challenge.com/combe-laval-co…
11/ Back to the Pyrénées. Cirque de Troumouse (2100m). Starts in extension of valley between Tourmalet and Aubisque. Just 15 metres lower than Tourmalet, this cirque is breathtakingly beautiful.
12/ Southern Alps? Ventoux is so famous, why not visit some other Telecommunication towers? Mont Colombis: probably too narrow for the Tour, this steep climb has great unobstructed summit views. Details: cycling-challenge.com/mont-colombis/
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Jul 18, 2022
1/ Just for fun: The best cycling climbs to NEVER appear in the Tour de France (must be paved and in France). Col de la Moutière (2454 metres): Turn off on south side of Cime de la Bonette. Quiet, high, lovely.
Details: cycling-challenge.com/col-de-la-bone…
(please suggest your favourite)
2/ Lac Cap de Long (2161m): Higher than nearby Col du Tourmalet, it is the final dam/lake on the beautiful Route des Lacs. Easily my favourite climb in the Pyrénées. Possible Tour excluded for environmental reasons (to protect it from "us"). Details: cycling-challenge.com/lac-de-cap-de-…
3/ Plan du Lac - the 7th highest paved road in France. Deep in the Haute-Maurienne valley, near the start of Col de l'Iseran (south), this stunning climb - surprise - ends at a little lake. Details: cycling-challenge.com/plan-du-lac-2/
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Jan 6, 2022
1/ Just for fun: A list of amazing cycling climbs that include some sort of "special" tunnel experience. (I am a tunnel coward, but occasionally fight my fears and have pedaled through some crazy places)
#cycling #tunnels
2/ Formerly the highest road in France. The route du Parpaillon was built between 1891 and 1911 by the French military to link the Ubaye and Embrun valleys. The high point of the road is the TUNNEL – 520 metres long – at 2643 metres, one metre higher than Galibier.
3/ The amazing Vercors massif is filled with cliff roads and tunnels. The scariest os on the way to Col de Romeyère. A true spider hole. A kind motorcyclists offered to lead me through as I had no light and I hit the highest heart rate of my life from fear and trying to keep up
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Dec 14, 2021
1/ Just for fun, I am going to list some of my favourite cycling climbs for hairpin lovers: first has to be the old cobble Tremola road up the south side of Gotthard Pass (Switzerland) #cycling #hairpins (3rd photo angle taken from inside the galleria tunnel of main road).
2/ The amazing 46 hairpins up to Col de Tende (French side, Italian name is Colle di tenda). Also, great unpaved military ridge roads above --- first photo taken from an old fort.
3/ OK, of course Passo dello Stelvio. Amazing: 48 signed hairpins. But don't forget, the less "famous" Bormio side (3rd and 4th photos) also has 40 signed hairpins. Oh, and they sell beer at the summit!
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Mar 11, 2020
1/ How do I try and cheer myself up? I go #cycling and take photos of some favourite local hairpins:
2/ All the photos are on the steep side of Mont Salève between Le Coin and Col de la Croisette
3/ Very steep averaging above 11% for 4.5 middle kms
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