Col des Champs
	Height	Climbing height
	2093m Sign 2087m	1043m (St. Martin-d’Entraunes) 863m (Colmars)
	Difficulty	Beauty
	3-4 (5)	3-4 (5)
How to get there	St. Martin-d’Entraunes (1050m) to the east of the pass is a nice little typical southern french village. Here a somewhat narrow road starts that goes to the pass. After a little while it splits up in two roads and I believe the left (south) one is the nicest and most interesting one. The roads join together again after around 5 km at the steepest place of the climb on this side (around 14%). It is very irregularly steep. The road from the west starts just above Colmars (1230m) and has more rough pavement (especially the higher part in the woods). Higher up there are also many annoying drainage ”sinks” in the road of the bigger variant that one has to cycle in, which slows down a downhill journey considerably.
Other comments	The actual geographic pass is on a gravel road a little lower that one can see from the pass height. It is very nice up on the pass height and at various places on the east side, but the west side is almost always in the woods and without views. This is the most southern pass above 2000 meters in the Alps and the climb could thus be rather hot, so be sure to bring enough water. Bars at Colmars and St. Martin-d’Entraunes. One bar before the last climb on the east side. [04-2093]