When I inserted the trip data into the original Day 11 post it screwed everything up and I couldn't add any additional pics. Here are some more from that day.
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| Kitty from our hotel in Arette. |
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| Rain on the morning of Day 11. |
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| Larrau, France. The climb to Larrau was part of Tyler Hamilton's Stage 16 win in the 2003 Tour. |
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2003 Tour, Stage 16.
Here is the Relive.cc course overview. Remember that my ride ended at the snapshot of the hairpin. The remainder of the ride was my bike (and me) in the support van:
Day 11
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| Sign in Larrau pointing the way to Col de Bagargi. |
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| Up the Bagargui. |
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| Atop the brutal Bargargi. We ended up sitting around waiting for rain to dissipate--and it never did. Ate lunch at a little restaurant at the summit. Fell a few miles later. |
I was having a good day that day. Allan Reeves beat me to the top, but I was best of the rest (Allan's time shown was from 2015).
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| In my age group, though, top 5 all time!! Ha! Not many people ride the climb--it's not like Tourmalet, or Aubisque, or Galibier or l'Alpe d'Huez. It doesn't have the history. It's a little out of the way. It's tougher than those others though, even if it is shorter. |
Our hotel in Osses:
http://mendi.fr/ Nice enough place, had a leaky roof in the hallway where they'd placed a bunch of stuff on the floor to soak it up. Of course they didn't know I'd be injured, but my room was on the third floor, no elevator.
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