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Cycling Col de Port and Port de Lers Today Didier Raboutou and I departed Tarascon-sur-Ariège and did a loop that includes Col de Port and Port de Lers. The Ariège is a quite region and as such [...]

Cycling Col de Pailhères, Ax-3-Domaines and Col du Chioula This is another ride starting and finishing in the wonderful little village of Comus. The out-the-door riding in this part of the [...]

Cycling Col du Pradel and Col du Marmare from Comus This ride began in Comus, where I was staying at the family home of a friend and neighbor of mine from Boulder. Comus is situated in the Aude, [...]

Today we climbed into the morning fog, to tackle Luz Ardiden at 1715 meters, which is an HC climb that has seen been featured in the TdF 8 times. It is perhaps most famous from the crash that [...]

Today we planned on riding to Spain via the col du Tentes. The day started out warm and humid. Here you can see the steam wafting off Warren. We had the road almost to ourselves. Passing only two [...]

We wanted to ride the Col du Soulor and the Col d’Aubisque but we were totally socked in with heavy fog. We did make it to the top of the Col Du Soulor, however. Along the way passing a [...]

We have landed in Pierrefitte-Nestalas, in the High Pyrenees. Below is basecamp. Such was the trauma of jaunt through Marseille that we decided to grind away the memory by tackling the Tourmalet, [...]