Col de la Croix Fry via Col de Plan Bois
By Will • Jan 4th, 2012 • Category: Climbs, CyclingOne of my favourite winter alps climbs.
One of my favourite winter alps climbs.
I have to cycle 100 Cols in 2009, so I thought I better get started.
Now this is an amazing route!
A couple of kilometres from Thones is a turn up a very steep, quiet road to the little-known Col de Plan Bois (not in my cycling bible).
I checked the webcam for Manigod ski station and the roads looked clear enough. So I drove to Thones and climbed the Col de la Croix Fry. This was the last climb in stage 17 of the 2004 Tour de France when Armstrong beat Kloden by about an inch. The stats don’t look too hard [...]
After a week of rain (and snow at altitude) the sun finally appeared. For the 3rd time in the last 3 years i decided to climb the Col de la Croix Fry (featured in Tour de France a couple of years back. I parked in Thones and the real climb starts about a km from [...]