Perhaps the best three days of (challenging) cycling I have ever done. Even a lousy photographer like me couldn’t help but take some great pictures - it’s paradise here.

South-East of Lake Geneva, Martigny is the start of several great climbs including Col du Grand St Bernard.
Today’s quick loop sampled three lessor know but superb Cols in the area. Starting just short of Verbier, the Col des Planches is a steep, quiet, well surfaced road that gives ever better views of the valley […]

Probably the most scenic ride of the year. The route starts on the eastern edge of Lake Geneva in Montreux (home of the famous Jazz festival). I began at the Freddy Mercury statue on the lakeshore and the work began immediately.
My book had warned me that there was a stretch at […]

Today was a bit warmer and much sunnier.  I decided to climb Col de la Croix again — starting at Villars - but using mountain bike paths as much as possible.  There is nothing like the Swiss Alps when the sun is shining.  The first half of my route was on a beautiful, tiny, steep […]

A Riddle: When you are cycling up a 10% slope, its freezing, and it starts to snow, why are hairpin turns good?
Answer: At least some of the time the 25 km wind will be at your back.
 
Col de la Croix is high above but links Villars and Diablerets […]

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= French Alps = Jura Mountains = Swiss Alps
= Legendary    = Smaller Cols = Reviewed but not yet climbed
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