Saint Berarde: L’Oisans Hidden Gem
This is the last day in the Alps and the last day at the Hotel Cassini. We today we climbed road only the locals would know about. It dead ends behind the mountains of Les Deux Alps ski station. [...]
Col de la Croix de Fer
This mountain has been used 15 times in the Tour de France, with the stage most often ending up Alp d’Huez. We approached the summit from Le Bourg-d’Oisans. The views along the way [...]
Col du Télégraphe & Col du Galibier
A nice warm day and a hot climb of the Telegraph turned into a lightning, rain and hail drenched day on the Galibier. I stopped to buy a tube at ski village town below the Galibier and Warren [...]
Cycling Alpe d’Huez and Les Deux Alpes
Every great champion must eventually face the Alpe d’Huez in a race. Each of its 21 switchbacks has the name of a past Tour stage winner posted, as well as the height to go to the 3100 foot [...]
Cycling Col de Sarenne from Le Hotel Cassini
France’s Greatest hits, game on. We flew into Paris and drove to the Alps for part one of this trip. At the beginning of the tollway to Lyon, the toll-person gave us a bag of goodies that [...]