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Welcome to the Route des Grandes Alpes. The Route des Grandes Alpes is a spectacular and well-known mountain road in France that stretches for around 700 km from Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean. It winds through the heart of the French Alps and leads through breathtaking mountain landscapes

And over famous passes such as the Col du Galibier and the Col de l’Iseran. The Route des Grandes Alpes promises an unforgettable cycling trip, full of alpine charm, cycling flair and magnificent views. Good morning to day 6 on the Route des Grandes Alpes. Anne had actually filmed the intro that morning in Briançon

, but today is the day she will lose the GoPro. That’s why I’m standing here. We don’t even know where exactly it happened or how. We noticed it at the destination. We sat at a café, then went back to the bikes and then the GoPro was suddenly gone.

It may be that it was stolen from us there. Although I actually always had a look at the wheels. So that would be possible. Another thing that occurred to us: 10 km earlier there was a construction site with a glaring pothole. We both drove through there and there was a lot of rattling.

Maybe she fell out of the food pouch. Or it was completely different. I have no idea, we don’t know. And then to today’s sixth day. It’s the third day of driving in a row and I still seem a bit tired that morning. On the previous two days

We drove the Col de L’Iseran and the Col du Galibier. I think you can still notice that a little bit. Today there are two more real passes on the program and therefore the most meters in altitude per day of the trip. Here is the animation. Today’s route flashes red here

And in the close-up it looks like this. We start in Briançon and then we go straight up to the Col d’Izoard. Then down through the Casse Déserte and then we drive the Col de Vars. After 93 km and 2,410 meters of altitude, the day ends in Jausiers.

We were at the bikes at 6:30 a.m. and our favorite hotelier had enticed us to have breakfast. Here Anne explains again how a coffee machine works and then we cycled off from the hotel. After a few meters we went straight up to the Col d’Izoard. The climb is 19 km long

And the first 12 km are pleasantly flat, only becoming a little steeper in the last 6 to 7 kilometers. Yesterday just before Briançon we had a construction site and then everyone had to drive over fresh tar for 300 m. There was no other option. All cars, motorcyclists and cyclists.

Anne has no tar on her tires at all. But me. Maybe I chose the wrong line, or because of my heavy weight it pushed in more. I don’t know, I’ll have to see how it behaves in the curves. Whether I still have enough grip. So, we just had to stop for a moment.

Because the Gaviapass video just went online at 7 a.m. and then I have to make the Komoot route public and point out the video on Instagram. The videos always come with a delay. So even when you see this video, you will think back, when was the Gavia Pass? Today is September 9th.

That will have been a few months ago. A video like this now takes me a lot of time with scene selection, animation, voiceover, music, title, checking five times. I estimate up to 20 hours. Video like this is now quite complex. The climb was nice and quiet,

Because the traffic-related importance of the Col d’Izoard is zero. And it has a bicycle lane on the right, all the way up to the top. This is very rare given this size. We have already driven 6 km and so far everything is easy to drive. The actual climb from the Col d’Izoard

Only comes in the last 6 km of 18. While Anne is just putting on her arm warmers, after a few kilometers I see that the tar is significantly less or is actually completely gone at the back. There will also be significantly less at the front.

That makes me positive that it’s now possible to drive. Very good. Now we are at 2,030 m altitude. Things are pretty windy here right now. Serpentines left right. Not really a view. The forest is thinning out and we have made it straight away, another 1.4 km and 97 meters in altitude.

Refuge Napoleon here in the front left. But it’s still too early. What time is it? 9:18 a.m. We drive up to the top and I think the descent is going to be pretty nice. The last kilometer. There are still a few trees here,

But we are now about at the level of the tree line. 2,300 m or so it seems to me. It looks like the kind of car that foxfotos.com would be stuck on. And here is the route from Briançon to the Col d’Izoard , where we will arrive shortly.

So, we get to the top. We made it. Yes, let’s drive in here. Yes, that was easy. What should I make of it more than it is, right? We’ll have to see how we can take a photo here, because it’s like that up there. Let’s see. Anne, how was it? Okay, right?

Was good to drive. You have to now… Good. We’re heading down now. It’s gotten pretty crowded here now. The sun is here now. We also took a photo and I think, if I remember it correctly from yesterday, the descent will now be quite nice. The descent south to Guillestre

Is about 34 km long, but only the first 15 km are steep. The part after that is noticeably flatter and I think the Col d’Izoard is particularly known for the first part of this descent and the Casse Déserte. This is a dry, weathered landscape with ridges and rocky pinnacles.

Let’s see everything in a moment. Yes, then I would say see you down in Guillestre. The passage that comes now is probably the most famous of the Casse Déserte. I even greet the third one with my little finger when braking. From Brunnisar it gets flatter.

Here is the short passage through the beautiful town of Arvieux. I’ll go ahead, Anne! The descent to Guillestre. The descent is over. We took a short detour to Guillestre. Take a long break here. With a nice sandwich and pastry. And then we look forward to the last pass of the day

Before the break day comes tomorrow. Yes, we’re looking forward to that now too. Okay, we’re driving out of Guillestre and we’re already on the pass. For a change at lunchtime, just before 12 p.m. We have to go through that today. This is the climb to the Col de Vars. Almost 19 km long

And an altitude difference of 1112 meters. It is divided into two parts, first steeper, then there is a flat section and then it goes up a bit. When it comes to my cycling tour videos, one of the things I want to do is show the routes completely and comprehensibly.

That’s why we’re now looking at the stupidest pass of the entire trip. Maybe it’s nice to drive in the morning or evening, but at lunchtime with a lot of traffic it just wasn’t good. Beautiful, but also hard. Yes, here it goes now. But the beginning at the bottom isn’t quite as pleasant.

Just kind of street. the sweat is running. So what the Italians are doing here with their racing motorcycles, that’s unconfortable. Overtaking us twice, side by side. We run small races here. Very very cool. I don’t know if it’s really like that, but I could imagine

That the Italians drive here via the Colle dell’Agnello and a loop over the Vars and then back again. In any case, it wasn’t like that otherwise. So the tough half of the Col de Vars is done. We’re just rolling down a few kilometers.

And let’s see if we can get into the shade somewhere. I was just thinking, there must be a well here somewhere. I’ll keep my head down. The water is even drinkable. 100% Like a Duracell bunny. Okay, the second half of the Col de Vars, the easy one begins. 7.2 km, 439 m,

6% on average. We’re getting pretty cooked. Sun from above, the slope below us. Drink a lot. And then the break day tomorrow comes just right. Short break about 5 km before the pass. Yes, all in all not that great here. A year ago we met a couple in Barcelonnette. I remember

The woman saying that the Col de Vars wasn’t nice at all. I understand you, I know what you mean now. I may have only edited out the beautiful scenes in the video. but there were also passages… Pause! Cool down a bit. Maybe apply sunscreen again. Architectural style from a bygone era.

Yes, I think it is like that. Buildings are already more beautiful today. As long as it survives… it still seems to attract some. It’s a little nicer up here at the exit. Clearly, the last 3 km were just really nice. Here on the left is the Refuge Napoleon.

On the right is a beautifully landscaped lake. Splendid. I think here’s something. We then sat down there and wanted to have a quick cola. But that wasn’t there for us. Yes, we had now sat down in the refuge, but were not served and then we left again. I’m not complaining much about that.

If you have too much to do, that’s okay. Sometimes it’s not meant to be. One more kilometer and then the work for today is done. From above, the climb to the Col de Vars actually looks quite interesting. and then we get to the top now.

There’s the sign on the left, but let’s save that, right? Just take a photo like this. A few seconds later. That was here on the Col de Vars. We would have liked to have a drink up there, but there is no more room in the shade.

So now we make our way down the descent. Unfortunately the GoPro on my chest didn’t work here, so the first part of the descent is missing, it starts later and in total it’s 14 km and 800 meters downhill. Here we roll into the destination. We then went shopping in Jausiers

And made our way to the accommodation. That’s the white castle up there with the buildings around it. And here is the descent from the Col de Vars to Jausiers. Okay, here where it says welcome, I think we’re in. We arrive now heavily packed. We are in the building.

We have now arrived at the apartment. We’ve already showered. The rooms fit, the bed fits. We have a seating area and a kitchen. And otherwise we have a low mood right now. Anne lost her GoPro today. With all recordings. Yes, well, it wasn’t that much. She filmed me a few times,

Then she spoke the intro this morning. I’ll have to save that then. You may have noticed at the beginning that I had to save it using VoiceOver. That’s the current state of things. A slight low, but you can’t undo it. and yes, that’s how it is now. We live with it.

I’ll probably get it right in the videos. Yes, that was day 6. We are glad we made it this far. We’re looking forward to the break day tomorrow, and then we’ll continue on day 7 in the next video and then the world will definitely look a lot better again. So bye!