Category: Route des Grandes Alpes

Our summer 2022 season is now over and we are pleased to announce that business was good for us after a few years of disruption casued by the COVID 19 pandemic. Bourg d’Oisans and Alpe d’Huez welcomed the Tour de France in 2022 and it was particularly pleasing to see Tom Pidcock win on Alpe…

Route des grandes Alpes Day 8, a set on Flickr. Day 8 started in Valberg before a quick descent and short climb up to the Col de la Couillole. An epic twisty descent followed before a coffee stop at the bottom of the Col St Martin. We were all at the hotel and in the…

Routes Des Grandes Alpes Day 7, a set on Flickr. Took us over the beautiful Col de la Cayolle and our first summit finish of the holiday the Col de Valberg

Route des Grandes Alpes Day 6, a set on Flickr. After Day 5 rest day in Briançon we took on the Col d’Izoard and the Col de Vars on a very hot sunny day.

RoutedesGrandesAlpesDay2, a set on Flickr. Photos from Day 2 of the Route des Grandes Alpes over the Col des Aravis, Col des Saisies and the Cormet de Roselend

Day 1 of our Route des Grandes Alpes Tour took us over the Col du Grand Taillet, the Col de Gets and the Col de la Colombiere

Col de l’Iseran, a set on Flickr. Recently I tackled the Col de l’Iseran in preperation for our Route des Grandes Alpes tour. The weather was a little grey but it only highlighted the dramatic landscape further.

We are really pleased to announce our first Route des Grandes Alpes tour will take place starting on the 28th July 2012. The 10 day point to point tour with over 650 km of riding and 16 cols starts in Geneva and finishes in Nice with a rest day in Briançon. The itinerary is as…