Colle del Gran San Bernardo

210  km.

         Our trip of today foresees a visit to the Hill to see the breeding of the dogs St. Bernard.  

        It will be to a large extent a heavy day for us enduristi, for guilt of the 150 kms of  asphalt between the bypass road in Turin and all highway A5, however we would surely be repaid by the beautiful landscape that we will find up there in point.  

         Then we depart and we begin to grind km, darting among the cars on the asphalt hot of the Turinese lowland.   

        Today ago really warm and we are happy to reach Pont Saint Martin where it begins the valley and also his pleasant breeze that immediately refreshes us.   

        We continue for Aosta, where we stop near the arc of August for the usual one coffee and cigarette. From here finally we start to climb toward the mountains, enjoying is us a beautiful and sinuous road, is a very beautiful landscape that offers us her valley of the Gran St. Bernard.

        Reached the tollgate of the piercing, we turn to the right and we climb there on the old road of the pass and surpassing long files of tourists, we arrive near the last language of the glacier that conceals the frontier to our sight.  

        We continue thin in front of the old refuge where we park the motorbikes and narrow in our overall, we admire the beauty of the little pond. We pass in Switzerland where we go to visit the famous breeding of dogs and we turn the small suburb afoot.  

        Finished the “tour” in Switzerland, we go down some altitude to make lunch it covers. After a breve it stops in an equipped area, we leave again and we make the inverse run up to return home.