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6 % on 21 kilometres. It was
thus a long climb, quiet and
ideal to admire the surrounding
landscapes: the road of the
pass, Ecrins, the surrounding
summits, an admiring marmot
(it whistled for me!), the
torrent. A magnificent
environment !
In the summit, I met the snow
and I affixed the official sticker
on the Italian chrono test point.
In the descent, two unusual
meetings: that of the public
works which continued to redo
the road and forced me to pass
in the shoulder to avoid the risk
of being stuck on the road and
that of Philippe GILBERT
supporters, the Belgian pro in
la Française des Jeux team, in
BIG Review 2009
advance of the event and
which stopped me brutally
to ask me for the address
of a grocer's shop! We can
remind that the
professionals rode down
Italian side and that it this
one was fatal to the
Spaniard Oscar Pereiro winner
of the Tour 2006.
Nothing to add except that the
foot of this pass is a good start
for the discovery of Saint-
Véran, higher village in
Europe, and Chapelle de
Clausis (gravelled Big N° 296
that my bike did not really
appreciate!).
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