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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    Ha told you it was easy
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    Ha told you it was easy

    I think it would have been a lot harder in a year or so, and if that descent had not featured so prominently in post-Tour best photo overviews.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    OK, what about this one? Three photos of the same climb. I did this climb a couple of weeks ago; they're not my photo's though (it was raining when I did it :cry: ).

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    mortirolo?

    no the top is wrong
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    edited July 2010
    I thought Mortirolo originally. Zoncolon?

    EDIT no, must be reasonably low with the wooded top. Ballon D'Alsace?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    its steep what ever it is
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    the zoncolon has all that tunnel furniture near the top
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    not that high doesn't go above the tree line
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Pross wrote:
    I thought Mortirolo originally. Zoncolon?

    EDIT no, must be reasonably low with the wooded top. Ballon D'Alsace?

    the ballon is open plateau at the top
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Looks more Italian as well, the building looks almost Tuscan :?
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    Flumserberg?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    Flumserberg?

    background mountains not alpine enough?
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    FJS wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Oops, forgot to give answers to these (in case anyone was interested...)

    La Berarde

    Col de Rates

    Wow, those are some obscure climbs, can't say I've ever heard of them. Great scenery though. Are those your own photos?

    Yes they are my own photos. La Berarde is just down the road from Alpe d'Huez, fantastic climb, well worth checking climb...
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    mididoctors wrote:
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    Flumserberg?

    background mountains not alpine enough?

    It's in Switzerland, they used it in the TdS in 2008
  • dave milne
    dave milne Posts: 703
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    Flumserberg?

    background mountains not alpine enough?

    It's in Switzerland, they used it in the TdS in 2008

    too narrow wrong architecture I think
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  • ju5t1n
    ju5t1n Posts: 2,028
    disquieting_museeuws wrote:
    ju5t1n wrote:
    How about this one? ...a bit more difficult I think

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    The topography reminds me of Honister Pass.
    Here's a clue then ...it's in Ireland
  • paulcuthbert
    paulcuthbert Posts: 1,016
    Gap of Dunloe?
    The most painful climb in Northern Ireland http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs200.snc1/6776_124247198694_548863694_2335754_8016178_n.jpg
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    No, not Mortirolo, Zoncolan or Flumserberg
    Pross wrote:
    Looks more Italian as well, the building looks almost Tuscan :?
    Not bad...
    mididoctors wrote:
    its steep what ever it is

    Oh yes it is - Pantani cracked there once
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Yes they are my own photos. La Berarde is just down the road from Alpe d'Huez, fantastic climb, well worth checking climb...
    La Berarde looks great - on the list of climbs to do now :wink:
  • flattythehurdler
    flattythehurdler Posts: 2,314
    FJS wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Yes they are my own photos. La Berarde is just down the road from Alpe d'Huez, fantastic climb, well worth checking climb...
    La Berarde looks great - on the list of climbs to do now :wink:

    Great climb. Not hard, just a real nice stretch and dead quiet. I did it twice and didn't see a single car. There is a great climb opposte the alpe as well which gives a great view of the alpe from the top, and with a tiny bit of cross country loops to the long black tunnel road. Can't remember the name but magic and not a single car either. Goes up to a small ski lift.
    Dan
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    flattythehurdler wrote:
    There is a great climb opposte the alpe as well which gives a great view of the alpe from the top, and with a tiny bit of cross country loops to the long black tunnel road. Can't remember the name but magic and not a single car either. Goes up to a small ski lift.

    up to notre dame and reymond
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    FJS wrote:
    No, not Mortirolo, Zoncolan or Flumserberg
    Pross wrote:
    Looks more Italian as well, the building looks almost Tuscan :?
    Not bad...
    mididoctors wrote:
    its steep what ever it is

    Oh yes it is - Pantani cracked there once

    this is starting to vex me now
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Ah FJS, I think it's the Poggio Murrella near the hot springs of Saturnia in Tuscany.
  • flattythehurdler
    flattythehurdler Posts: 2,314
    mididoctors wrote:
    flattythehurdler wrote:
    There is a great climb opposte the alpe as well which gives a great view of the alpe from the top, and with a tiny bit of cross country loops to the long black tunnel road. Can't remember the name but magic and not a single car either. Goes up to a small ski lift.

    up to notre dame and reymond

    Sin e e. Dark in them tunnels.
    Dan
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Kléber wrote:
    Ah FJS, I think it's the Poggio Murrella near the hot springs of Saturnia in Tuscany.

    cant remember that sort of switchback? Poggio Murrella just goes straight up i think
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Kléber wrote:
    Ah FJS, I think it's the Poggio Murrella near the hot springs of Saturnia in Tuscany.

    Not that steep. Much, much longer though..
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Got it Ithink. San Pellegrino?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Pross wrote:
    Got it Ithink. San Pellegrino?

    we have a winner me thinks

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Beautiful looking climb and sounds like just the sort I'd like to see more of in the Tour.

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