Colle del Moncenisio - Colle della Croce di ferro - Colle del Lautaret - Colle del Monginevro

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420 km.

Taking advantage of the time we decide to risk us in France to cross a lot not a hill known but certainly beautiful.  

            We climb over the colletta of Cumiana and I gone down in val of Susa we cross her all up to her chief town from where we begin to climb for the Moncenisio.  

            The asphalt is beautiful and dry and despite the traffic allow not us a slope really from code! In stings down immediately a small standstill and then to reach the fund valley and the city of Modane.  

            We keep on going down for the valley, we surpass saint Michel de Maurienne from where usually we take for the Galibier and we reach the country of Saint Julien Mont Denis from where we begin to climb.  

            The storm has preceded us and the fund is damp forcing us to also close a few the handcuff  because the conformation of the mountain detaches quite a lot earth and rocks.  We finally arrive on top of the hill (2067 ms.) but we have only the time of a fast photo because it begins to rain, we go down then the opposite slope, but with few minutes we do a small deviation to see the hill of Langan (1924 ms.)  

            We take back the descent to find a dry place to have lunch, and we find it to the feet of the lake artificial really under to the hill. The lunch is fast because the time doesn't convince us we want to regain the fund valley and then to enter her Bourg of Oisans from where we can reapproach us to our mountains with the fast one national road 211, don't satisfy we divert for about ten km to visit the famous one (for the bicyclists) Alpe of Huez, an express turn and then we return on our footsteps and since the ugly time seems to give then us a truce we think about also diverting for Les Deux Alpes, laughing winter tourist center that thanks to his perennial glacier also offers in summer a lot of attractions.  

            We can rest there from the kms. hurried sitting us in a beautiful cafe and tasting not us a coffee really express!  

            Returned on our footsteps we continue on the national one up to the slopes of the With the de Lautaret where however we begin to take the rain, us fearless we continue and only on the top we stop there to put the overall, and we have so the occasion to see that mixed to the rain we find the first snow of this year.  

            We try to go down the fastest possible and luckily to Briancon the time is beautiful again, then of rush we go up again the Monginevro and rieccoci in Italy. Sees the road, the time and the time the tiredness it begins to make  feel, from Cesana we go up again to the Sestriere and  then with calm we go down the whole val Chisone up to return to Pinerolo and from here in Bagnolo.