Col du Mont Cenis
	Height	Climbing height
	2081m Sign 2083m	682m (Lanslebourg); 641m (Lanslevillard) 1597m (Susa)
	Difficulty	Beauty
	West 2 (5); East 4 (5)	4-5 (5)
How to get there	West of the pass in France the climb starts from Lanslebourg (1399m) if coming down from the Modane valley or in Lanslevillard (1440m) if coming down from the Col de l’Iseran. It is a rather easy climb up many hairpins through woods. After the pass height there is a large area around the big lake/dam that is almost level. It is a little up and down before the road goes down a myriads of bends on a perfect road to Susa (503m) in Italy (the most pleasant road to descend in the Alps with a racer in my opinion). The climb from Susa is quite hard, but at least somewhat evenly steep all the time.
Other comments	The site around the lake at the top could be rather busy on weekends with locals and tourists. It is very nice up at around the lake and there are many rough-stuff routes to explore for those with a mountainbike. The highest point of the road is 2100m. Lanslevillard has good accomodation and a good choice of restaurants. Susa is usually a very hot and busy little town in the Summer. Col du Petit Mont Cenis (73-2183b) approx. 7 km south-west from the pass is reachable with a racer and was tarmacced all the way to the pass in 2004. [73-2081]