Etape - how much climbing?

Spatulala
Spatulala Posts: 291
edited June 2015 in Sportives/audaxes/training rides
I'm used to Sportives overstating their vertical ascent figures (Etape Caledonia for example), but I've seen huge variation in the claimed figures for this years Etape Du Tour. Anyone shed some light on what the real figure might be?

Original figures were estimated at 4200m, one chap who rode the route recorded 5000m on Strava, and then on the Tour Tracker app that stage on the Tour is listed as having 6500m of climbing!

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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,124
    About 4000 meters.

    Col du Chaussy: 1000m
    Croix de Fer: 1600m
    Mollard: 400m
    La Toussuire: 1100m
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  • Spatulala
    Spatulala Posts: 291
    davidof wrote:
    About 4000 meters.

    Col du Chaussy: 1000m
    Croix de Fer: 1600m
    Mollard: 400m
    La Toussuire: 1100m

    Great, thanks. Not sure how the info in the Cycling News Tour Tracker app can be off by over 50%? You'd imagine they get their stats from the Tour organisers.
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,124
    Spatulala wrote:
    davidof wrote:
    About 4000 meters.

    Col du Chaussy: 1000m
    Croix de Fer: 1600m
    Mollard: 400m
    La Toussuire: 1100m

    Great, thanks. Not sure how the info in the Cycling News Tour Tracker app can be off by over 50%? You'd imagine they get their stats from the Tour organisers.

    No idea, 6000 would be a bit of a killer. I cycled the Mollard/Croix de Fer loop a couple of weeks back and it was indeed 2000m.
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