Yes, the Dauphinée will climb Le Salève up the super steep route from Collonge-Sous-Salève just behind my house.

It is rated category one but features 4 kilometres averaging 12% - with a full kilometre averaging 13%. This is steep!

This morning it was raining, very windy, and cold. So I sat by the phone waiting for Keith to cancel.

But he is Scottish not Australian, so canceling never crossed his mind.

Unfortunately the snow was very soft up high and almost impossible to ride on.

So I ended up pushing for several kilometres. Nice hike though.

I decided to rest my tired cycling legs today and hike up Le Saleve with Doreen.

All the great hairpins from Friday’s ride were now surrounded by snow.

If you like steep hairpins then this is the climb for you.

Today I got pretty lost cycling up into snow-filled woods

A great ride up the mountain behind my house.

How imposing is le Saleve? It was mentioned in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein:



” I thought of pursuing the devil; but it would have been in vain, for another flash discovered him to me hanging among the rocks of the nearly perpendicular ascent of Mont Saleve “

In the fall and winter in the Alps it is often cold, cloudy and dark. But to find the sun, often it’s only a matter of going up high.
So I snuck out the back door and cycled up the mountain behind my house - Le Saleve. And Voila! At about 1,300 […]

I have the good fortune to live part way up a mountain. Le Saleve is the massif to the Southwest of Geneva on the edge of the French Alps. From my house there are several great, quiet routes to the top. Up top you can ride the length of the massif for […]

Perfect. A beautiful, sunny, crisp day. I am weaker than Barry on the hills, so hard work trying to keep up on this occasionally steep climb above Geneva.
Coffee and Blueberry pie up top and then down via the treacherously steep route through Collonges.