Dim Dominant de toute sa masse le célèbre col du Galibier, cette montagne de plus de 3000 mètres, située à la charnière entre les Alpes du Nord et celles du Sud, offre l'un des plus sensationnels panorama des Alpes.
11 °C I was struggling. 8 °C
The 2645 high pass connects the Maurienne with the Briançonnais. La pente moyenne est alors 5.5 %. OBSERVATIONS GALIBIER 2559 m. A great day out!
14 °C 21 juil. jeu. After week spent on cycling in Alps that "col" still managed to make a big impresion on me. Jeu 8 as the most climbed climb in the world.I rode half way up the Col du Galibier in 2013, one week before the London Surrey 100 (my rest period). Download ERA5 reanalysis data for Col du Galibier with a atmospheric climate variables. METEO.
A click on a weather variable name in the legend below the chart hides the data series for better readability.All data will use the selected timezone. The last 2km are brutal, but the sense of magnitude once you reach the summit is beyond any other climb I have done. Does anyone know where i can buy a Galibier cycletop as i did`nt get one while i was there ? It is ranked No. Most beautiful climb I have done yet. We were utterly humbled and grovelled at the foot of this pass but I would do it again tomorrow. It''s highly likely you won''t give a dam about the fab scenery due to the sheer pain of climbing this monster. Le Col du Galibier se situe en Rhone-Alpes.
One of our guys hit one on the descent and ended up in the ditch with a broken clavicle.
The Galibier can only be reached from Valloire when you have already conquered the Col du Télégraphe, which makes the pass one of the toughest Alpine cols.The Col du Galibier has been climbed by 146 climbbybikers. Notre météogramme 5 jours pour Col du Galibier offre toutes les informations météorologiques synthétisés en 3 graphes : Graphe de température avec pictogrammes météorologiques. Never gets very steep, even the hairpins at the top can be ridden in the saddle. Tackled in July in searing heat it plays on you mentally as you leave the comfort of civilisation and rise up in to the mountains looking for a gap on the horizon. This inspired my more athletic wife and son to start riding. The descent on relatively clear roads was also fantastic. After a week of climbing in the Alps, I saved the Galibier for last.
I tried to go as slow as possible so as not to kill myself, but with a 42x26 as smallest gear, you cant go too slow either. I am not a light rider and I liked the fact that it wasnt that steep so that I could climg along side the lighter ones :) It takes a long time to finally see the top.
Data are either summer or winter-time.
Thank God the scenery was taking my mind off the pain. You have to ride this personally to appreciate how big a climb it is. This climb belongs to the Alps. Download ERA5 reanalysis data for Col du Galibier with a atmospheric climate variables. This is not much of a climb, more of a long false flat, rarely exceeding 5 percent. The Col du Galibier via Valloire is ranked number 231 of the Alps. Le marqueur de position est placé sur Col du Galibier. I could not say wether I was breaking or not - quite scary - hehe. Three riders pasted me : younger and living in Suisse & Jura.
Gives you that epic alp feeling. All diagrams show hourly data for Col du Galibier for 3 days. To me, ""humbled"" is also the first word that comes up to me when I think about my climb towards the top of Galibier. 5 °C
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I had cleats - they had trainers! I was glad to pass just one person on the climb.
Note : your arent the only on the top. PREVI Col du Galibier à 2500m.