Now this is an amazing route!
A couple of kilometres from Thones is a turn up a very steep, quiet road to the little-known Col de Plan Bois (not in my cycling bible).
I often call the Vercors the most under-rated cycling region in the Alps. The massif to the south-west of Grenoble…
It’s getting colder and the high Alps has fresh snow. With lots of lousy weather in the immediate forecast, my…
I figured I had time to sneak up Col de Portillon and the Spanish border before the long drive home.