Tour de Suisse

[marcski]

A really cool picture from yesterday's stage at the Tour de Suisse:

That was from the final 12km (there were 28 km's before for a total 40 km climb) which, as you can see was over cobblestones. It contained 38 hairpin bends climbing 932m on that surface at an average gradient of 7.3%.

There was a total of just shy of 5000' m of climbing (yes that's 15,000'!) in today's stage alone.

 

[bvibert]

I see snow, no one brought any skis?

That's a LOT of climbing!

 

[Marc]

Those guys are from a completely different gene pool.

 

[mlctvt]

I've got a framed Graham Watson photo of this taken from a different angle. I hung it at our place at Mount Snow since it is mountains and it does have snow in the photo. .
It's actually steeper than it looks in this shot!

 

[mlctvt]

I've got a framed Graham Watson photo of this taken from a different angle. I hung it at our place at Mount Snow since it is mountains and it does have snow in the photo. .
It's actually steeper than it looks in this shot!

Here's the photo I have of PASSO DI STELVIO it may or may not be the same mountain pass. .
http://www.velogear.com/prodinfo.asp?number=P+GWPDS

 

[marcski]

Different mountain. The one from the Tour de Suisse from my post was the San Gottardo.

 

[TheBEast]

A really cool picture from yesterday's stage at the Tour de Suisse:

That was from the final 12km (there were 28 km's before for a total 40 km climb) which, as you can see was over cobblestones. It contained 38 hairpin bends climbing 932m on that surface at an average gradient of 7.3%.

There was a total of just shy of 5000' m of climbing (yes that's 15,000'!) in today's stage alone.

HOLY COW!! And over cobblestones no less!! Righteous!