1 Okay we are ready to go.
2 Resetting the bicycle computers.
3 Group picture at Le Clapier. From here it will be climbing.
4 Meindert and Robert still look fresh.
5 Wouter can even smile :-)
6 But now its time for the hard work.
7 Make sure you have lights on you in these long dark tunnels.
8 Beautiful "Georges d' Infernet".
9 It's the main road from Grenoble to Briancon, so it can be busy.
10 It looks like they just stuck the roads to the rocks.
11 Erik and Meindert going strong.
12 The pavement is very good.
13 Erik sweating uphill.
14 Marleen taking a breath.
15 It's a very good work out on skates.
16 Meindert using low gear.
17 In such a nice environment you won't feel the pain.
18 Reaching Barage de Chambon.
19 From hear it's getting steeper towards Les Deux Alpes (9km).
20 Marleen looking at the dam.
21 Oh no!! It starts raining :-((
22 From now on, it's getting harder to skate. Especially the white marks are slippery.
23 In the curves you can get some rest because these are not steep.
24 Marleen going strong.
25 Counting down the hairpins towards the top.
26 This will get slippery in the downhill.
27 Almost there :-)
28 Mission completed.:-)
29 The soaked cyclists.
30 Marleen reaching the summit as well.
31 Enjoying an outragous expensive hot choclate: 6 cups €28 !
32 Les Deux Alpes is preparing for the World Cup mountainbike.
33 It's time to go down.
34 Carefully going down.
35 Yes I survived the steepest part.
36 Robert too :-). Now back to Bourg d'Oisans
37 What a sight.
38 Be sure to make it through the curves.
39 Otherwise you'll end up at the bottom of this valley.
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Peter Nikkel.
peter@nikkel.nl