July 8th Alps d'Huez

Bourg d'Osians

Today we arrived in Bourg d'Orsians the town at the bottom of the Alps d'Huez climb - after a great lunch and wander around the town, we took a warm up ride and then launched straight into the climb.

Alps d'Huez is just 14km but 21 switchbacks, in some places the grade was 14%, it was a long tough ride, torturous is maybe a better word.  As always the scenery was spectacular - but as we were huffing and puffing up to over 1800meters we didn't enjoy it as much as we might. Great sense of accomplishment to say we have done this famous climb.