Le Collet d’Allevard and Super Collet
By Will • Oct 16th, 2007 • Category: Climbs, Cycling
Le Collet d’Allevard is the featured climb in the October edition of Le Cycle Magazine. It has never appeared in the Tour de France in part due to its inconvenient location but is a beautiful, yet challenging climb.
Le Cycle describes it as a little Alpe d’Huez, in part due to its steep slopes from the very beginning. It’s a well shaded route winding up the mountain with - as usual - great views of the valley below.
Often the best quality roads in the French alps are up to ski stations, and this route is no exception - I almost felt like I was riding a Swiss road 
Le Collet d’Allevard is a small ski station at 1,450 metres, but the road continues a few more kilometres up to 1,650 metres where it ends at Super Collet - a collection of ski lifts.
My cheesy grin:
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Will is Happiest while cycling uphill. More enthusiastic than talented, his 2008 Challenge is to (again) cycle 160,000 metres of vertical ascent.
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