| How to get there |
The climb starts on the same road out of Briançon (1204m) as the climb up to Col de lIzoard. After a series of bends you get out of Briançon and come to a place where a surfaced road takes off to the left. That is NOT the road to take. It is the next road going off left (a road that goes almost straight ahead rather than left really, but on the left side of the Izoard road). It is a small, rather rough, military road that does not seem likely that it would take you up the mountainside. It soon starts to winds it way in a seemingly endless series of hairpins. The surface is very poor (I think it was gone in one little tunnel). There is no problem, but you do not really look forward to descend the same road on your racer. The road is slightly better higher up. It is a little hard to guess where you are heading, but take a guess on one of the higher points of the mountain that you could glimpse from below and you will not be totally wrong. The pass is at the point where the tarmac ends (which is on a crossroads on the plateau far above). It is possible to descend this pass on the other side on the unpaved road ahead. There are also other unpaved roads going up here, but they are only paths for some stretches (at least the one you see ahead in the photo here). |