Col de la Bonette
	Height	Climbing height
	2715m	1844m (Isola); 2205m (St. Sauveur-s-Tinée) 1475m (Jausiers)
	Difficulty	Beauty
	3-4 (5)	3-4 (5)
How to get there	It is possible to almost entirely go uphill until the pass itself all the way from Nice. One could even continue up to the Cime de Bonette at 2802m. This makes it a 2800m climb and the longest climb in the Alps. This is the highest paved road in the the western Alps (only the Austrian Ötztaler Gletscherstrasse goes slightly higher). From St. Sauveur-s-Tinée (510m) it really starts to go uphill, but first after St. Etienne-de-Tinée (1144m) it starts to get a little steep, though steepness is the lesser problem on this climb. The length is the problem. From the Ubaye valley to the north one starts the climb in Jausiers (1240m). From there it is a rather regular and moderately steep pass road to the top.
Other comments	The pass itself is seldom talked about as the road goes higher in a circle road at the top that one could skip (if one wants to). At the highest point there is a monument and a path up to the Cime de Bonette. The pass is like a little narrow opening in the mountain wall almost as if it had been cut out from the rock wall. Without that opening the pass might have been the same as the Col de la Moutière far below the monument on the circle road. Before the new Bonette road was built the pass road used to go over the Col de Restefond instead. You can see how it looks on this excerpt from an IGN map at centcols.org. This pass is another classic. Fill up water before the steeper climb begins as there is not much water to be found higher up on either side. [04-2715;o353]