Grand Col opening dates 2016
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Croix de Fer opened last Friday, but was passable by bike at least 10 days before. I rode up today from home
Very very cold and windy with a lot of snow round still.
Cormet de Roselend should open on the 21st May, Petit Saint-Bernard and the col de la Madeleine on the 28th
Col de l'Iseran will open in mid June, still 8 meters of snow depth on the north side.
Clearing the north side of the Col du Glandon today, still a lot of work to make is passable http://www.data-avalanche.org/listAvala ... 2948184319 …
It has been passable on the 10 may the last two years.
Very very cold and windy with a lot of snow round still.
Cormet de Roselend should open on the 21st May, Petit Saint-Bernard and the col de la Madeleine on the 28th
Col de l'Iseran will open in mid June, still 8 meters of snow depth on the north side.
Clearing the north side of the Col du Glandon today, still a lot of work to make is passable http://www.data-avalanche.org/listAvala ... 2948184319 …
It has been passable on the 10 may the last two years.
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It's been a funny old spring (to put it mildly - or perhaps not mildly would be more accurate...)
Even the Colombiere is still closed.
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Just hope the weather picks up over the next 2 weeks..
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It is only open as far as the tunnel, they are still clearing snow on the col, so not sure it is a good plan for cycling; I've never tried the tunnel on a bike and officially it is banned.
The Glandon is passable on the North side now but still officially closed. The Agnel is open officially. The Madeleine should open in a couple of days.
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Does anyone know what the state of the Col de la Bonnette, Col d'Allos/Champs/Cayolle, Col de la Lombarde and Colle Fauniera are? Also planning on hitting Mont Ventoux on my way down to Marseille, is that likely to be passable this time next week?
I know the weather isn't great right now, but it's forecast to improve next week so I'm keeping my fingers crossed! I'm quite happy dealing with inclement weather, but I don't fancy being one of those moronic tourists who gets stricken/killed on a mountain because they've crashed on ice/been struck by lightning/been blown off the road!
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Hoping the weather clears up a bit because there's still a lot of thunderstorms forecast!
EDIT: Weather turned out to be very good, bar a bit of rain on the Sunday on our way back down the Sarenne. All the Col's were open, and was quite chilly at the tops of climbs, but it proved to be a great trip.
Day one was a wash out and we only did 10 miles
Day two saw us head up the Col du Lautaret and then up the Col du Galibier. Still a lot of snow at the top of the Galibier.
Day three was a morning ride up the Col du Glandon and Col de la Croix de Fer and an afternoon ride up the to the Col du Solude, including some unlit tunnels and a bit of comedy off road on a gravel track not really made for road bikes. Got wet on both rides, including hailstones in the afternoon!
Day four was a morning ride up Alpe d'Huez before heading for home.
Used this site for planning rides http://bike-oisans.com/en/cycling-oisan ... tes-oisans
Fancy going to the Maurienne Valley next :-)
The walls were much higher part way down the road. At the start of the week the road was closed and we have to clamber over 3m of snow to get onto the road to Italy.
This was a cold stop:
Later the same week on Semnoz:
3 weeks before he rolled into Paris in yellow.