oldfatfool
Guru
Returned earlier than anticipated from 'sunny' France partly due to being too old to sleep in a flamin tent for more than a fortnight at a time, partly due to poor weather forecasts but mostly because I am buggered.
The holiday didn't get off to the best of starts, the sat nav taking me through the middle of Geneva after driving 20 hours didn't help, but the icing was the air bed not holding air.
My first destination was Taninges, having not ridden much this year with a cycle of over training and injury leading to DNS on LEL and very few forum rides, I wanted to get a couple of easier rides in before heading south.
The weather for the 4 days was not the best with mornings being swamped by cloud and the evenings entertaining a little rain, I started with an easy out and back to Morzine via Les Gets, approx 40km with 712m of climbing at 3 to 6% and giving a lovely descent. After 3 days of build up the first proper ride out was La Columbiere awesome scenery and the descent well worth the effort.
http://www.brytonsport.com/mapTrackView?id=4257291
Plans went awry with the weather forecast, both Bourg st Maurice and Modane where forecast storms for the following days so both Cenis and the Iseran fell by the wayside and I was off to Allemond.
Day 1 Ornon and Alpe D. http://www.brytonsport.com/mapTrackView?id=4257293
Day 2 Glandon and Croix de fer http://www.brytonsport.com/mapTrackView?id=4257295
Day 3 Lauterat and Galebier http://www.brytonsport.com/mapTrackView?id=4257299
The holiday didn't get off to the best of starts, the sat nav taking me through the middle of Geneva after driving 20 hours didn't help, but the icing was the air bed not holding air.
My first destination was Taninges, having not ridden much this year with a cycle of over training and injury leading to DNS on LEL and very few forum rides, I wanted to get a couple of easier rides in before heading south.
The weather for the 4 days was not the best with mornings being swamped by cloud and the evenings entertaining a little rain, I started with an easy out and back to Morzine via Les Gets, approx 40km with 712m of climbing at 3 to 6% and giving a lovely descent. After 3 days of build up the first proper ride out was La Columbiere awesome scenery and the descent well worth the effort.
http://www.brytonsport.com/mapTrackView?id=4257291
Plans went awry with the weather forecast, both Bourg st Maurice and Modane where forecast storms for the following days so both Cenis and the Iseran fell by the wayside and I was off to Allemond.
Day 1 Ornon and Alpe D. http://www.brytonsport.com/mapTrackView?id=4257293
Day 2 Glandon and Croix de fer http://www.brytonsport.com/mapTrackView?id=4257295
Day 3 Lauterat and Galebier http://www.brytonsport.com/mapTrackView?id=4257299