9.3
Austria

This year, the Tour de Suisse has four stages with an amateur cyclo-sportive riding the route before the pros. Today I participated in this “Tour de Suisse Challenge” – cycling up to Rettenbachgletscher. Not an easy climb.

It’s getting colder and the high Alps has fresh snow. With lots of lousy weather in the immediate forecast, my…

7.9

Hautacam is a ski station above Argelès-Gazost in the Pyrenées. It has appeared 4 times as a mountain top finish in the Tour de France (’94, ’96’, ’00, ’08) – see small photo below for the stage winners.