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Contents: Tours (5)
All descriptions are in English, unless otherwise noted.
La Marmotte
tour started 1998 La Marmotte is one of the toughest and most spectacular one-day events in Europe, only 175km but with well over 5000m of climbing, finishing on that most famous of Tour de France battling grounds, the Alpe d'Huez. |
Tour du Mont-Blanc
tour started July 1996 The Tour du Mont-Blanc is a circuit of 322km based in the northern French Alps, but visiting Italy and Switzerland as well. Run as a permanent route by the Cycle Touring Club of Chambery, it carries a maximum time limit of 4 days, as it crosses five fairly high passes. Sheila and I considered our options carefully. We decided to join the circuit at Beaufort, at the foot of the Cormet de Roselend, deposit some of our touring luggage at a hotel and ride round in two days. |
Raid Alpine: Thonon-Trieste
tour started 1995 From Arrivèe On-Line, Audax UK's quarterly magazine. A certain Frenchman, Georges Rossini of Thonon on Lake Geneva, has set up four testing Alpine routes, or 'Raids':
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Raid Alpine: Thonon-Trieste
tour started 1995 From Arrivèe On-Line, Audax UK's quarterly magazine. A certain Frenchman, Georges Rossini of Thonon on Lake Geneva, has set up four testing Alpine routes, or 'Raids':
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La Marmotte
tour started 1993 La Marmotte is one of the toughest and most spectacular one-day events in Europe, only 175km but with well over 5000m of climbing, finishing on that most famous of Tour de France battling grounds, the Alpe d'Huez. |