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Col du Tourmalet

  • 20-06-2013 11:05am
    #1
    velopeloton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭


    3km from Baréges, 15km from the summit. Top from Google Street View, bottom from a helicopter this morning.

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  • #2
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Uh oh. I'm meant to be going up there in three weeks time


  • #3
    bazermc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »
    Uh oh. I'm meant to be going up there in three weeks time


    Is this from the rain in Lourdes????


  • #4
    velopeloton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭velopeloton


    Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »
    Uh oh. I'm meant to be going up there in three weeks time

    Forget it. It will be closed for several months. It is ok on the eastern side, you can still ride to the summit there.


  • #5
    velopeloton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭velopeloton


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  • #6
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Was going to use that approach from Bagneres. But there goes the plan to go on to the Luz Ardiden.


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  • #7
    velopeloton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭velopeloton


    Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »
    Was going to use that approach from Bagneres. But there goes the plan to go on to the Luz Ardiden.

    It's ok, Luz Ardiden was reopened this morning, with a few small detours.


  • #8
    velopeloton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭velopeloton


    bazermc wrote: »
    Is this from the rain in Lourdes????

    This is up river from Lourdes, it is a combination of melting snow and heavy rain. Lourdes is bad but Luz and Baréges are destroyed. Amazingling only 4 people died.


  • #9
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    But I wouldn't be able to descend the western side of the Tourmalet to go on to the Luz Ardiden, if I'm reading your correctly?


  • #10
    lennymc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭lennymc


    wow. I remember that stretch of road from last year.


  • #11
    velopeloton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭velopeloton


    Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »
    But I wouldn't be able to descend the western side of the Tourmalet to go on to the Luz Ardiden, if I'm reading your correctly?

    There is no road on the western side anymore.


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  • #12
    velopeloton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭velopeloton


    http://youtu.be/ZKBXUkFcdNE


  • #13
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    Glad

    If you recall the maplink I sent you a few weeks back, once your descend back down the Eastern Tourmalet you can get to where you need to go via the Lesponne valley the up Col du Couret and onto Juncalas the Saint Savin.


  • #14
    Wishbone Ash
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    Was it due to feature on the TDF this year?


  • #15
    velopeloton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭velopeloton


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Was it due to feature on the TDF this year?

    No. This year is only the 14 year since 1910 that is will not.


  • #16
    doozerie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,830 ✭✭✭doozerie


    <MTBer>Sure feck it you could ride across that, 'tis only a bit of water. Tsk, you roadies and your roads!</MTBer>


  • #17
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    ROK ON wrote: »
    Glad

    If you recall the maplink I sent you a few weeks back, once your descend back down the Eastern Tourmalet you can get to where you need to go via the Lesponne valley the up Col du Couret and onto Juncalas the Saint Savin.

    Cheers. I'll get the maps out later on and route something new.


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