Trips & stuff about cycling
once again it was with 6h a short night, meaning 12h of sleep in 3 days… Beside some “thinking” the main reason was, that I knew that I had to start early: the weather forecast was predicting (if any) clouds … Read More »
the night was very warm, so I could only sleep 4 hours. I met with Rita as we took the same trains to Torino: I had decided true last days o go back home via Zermatt as I wanted to … Read More »
Grouped humans can be disappointing… In short words: two hours of sleep are not enough. I can’t sleep when people are “singing” , speaking loud and laughing. They went quite late to bed and the grandfather and its grandson were … Read More »
After a good breakfast and more sleep than the average, I started towards the Col de Tende. After a few turns on the main road, it’s possible to leave it and cycle on the secondary one. Even the hotel Marguereis … Read More »
Wise decision… The breakfast at Locanda Ceaglio was good as always… And the first goal was set: colle d’Esischie, 15km away and 2370m oversea and then the Colle dei Morti (2515m). The idea was then to follow one of the … Read More »
Summary of 14 days : About 2h of cycling under rain Distance: 723.84 km Elevation Gain: 21’435 m Calories: 36’706 kCal Many happy moments Few unhappy minutes…
I slept quite well until I woke up because of the feeling being hungry and hearing rain on the tent. In fact, some condensation was formed over night (I guess mainly because of not enough wind and my washed pants … Read More »
2 high passes
The day started a bit later with breakfast as I once again could not sleep very well. Since now a week, I can’t remember of having good slept. Anyway, the day was to be nice. So I hoped as the … Read More »
Mixed day
col de l’Iséran
After a good breakfast, the direction was to the west at South of the Mt-Blanc massive. What a difference to the weather the evening before! First, I wanted to get up to col des Chavannes towards La Thuile, but weather … Read More »
After two days of resting (Robbie Williams at Paléo), I continued the road from Martigny to Italy. While climbing towards the nice Lac Champex, I met Guillaume and Albin (http://albin.travelmap.fr), two nice guys cycling from Paris to Rom. We spent … Read More »
The rain and wind stopped at midnight. And as it was my first night in the tent, I preferred to watch how it was doing into the wind. The sunrise waked me up before 6am. The first motorbikes were riding … Read More »
from Diesentis the road continued to the east. There was two ways: either over the oberalp pass or more to the south over a mountain pass following the MTB route. Higher, longer, but surely nicer thanks to the nice trails … Read More »
The fifth day was quite easy: enjoying the first trail down, and then going east towards Disentis where I needed to catch a packet at the post office. After Lunch near a nice small lake, the weather started to change … Read More »
First cycling with drill master D
The night was quite and I woke up earlier then expected for vacation. Breakfast was at 7:30 at the buffet. The evening before, I had tried to check any possible way to get on the top of the Churfirsten Mountains … Read More »
2nd day
End of the first day And ended with a beautiful trail: big smile! [excerpt] end of the 1st day [/excerpt]
Ready?
First meters
tires are changed, last stuff is bought, just need to pack everything. That year: west Austria to Côte d’Azure by MTB. At least a try. 🙂
First test
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