Tuesday, September 15
This was a very strange day. We awoke to clouds, moist and cool, but no rain. Then we got lost in Chambery for 45 minutes, until we finally made it out on a main road (which we weren’t planning to take due to traffic). We found that the traffic wasn’t that bad and - WE WEREN’T LOST! We took a major road all the way to St. Jean-de Maurienne without any problems. GREAT!
We were actually traveling up a major river valley to the Haute Alps region which has many high Cols and is one of the routes to Italy. It was pretty but congested . There just seem to be so many people in France. You just never get completely away from them. Nevertheless, it was a very smooth and easy ride with a gradual climb after getting out of Chambery.
St. Jean-de-Maurienne is a delightful, little town and the Hotel St. George where we stayed had a locked garage just for bikes. Cyclists from all over come here to ride up to the various Col’s as the sign shows above. We were the only ones at the hotel on since its near the end of the season.
Scene as we rode up the valley toward the Haute Alps.
How about that Castle?! Wonder when that was built?
Our route is open over the Col du Galibier.
Our first look at the mountains over which we will climbing.
Looks intimidating!
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