Friday, August 10, 2007

Col de la Madeleine

Long way up!
Self portrait at the summit
Amanda is down there somewhere
Amanda nears the summit

Today we climbed the Col de la Madeleine. With a few km's warm up it was into the 27km solid climb at an average of 7.5% gradient. It was sooo cold up near the summit (2000m) it was close to 0°C and sleeting!!! The descente was slow in the rain and fog not to mention we were close to hypothermia! Gotta love it!

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