Alpine Break

This circuit starts off down at the hot springs at Plan de Phazy and initially there is a couple of klicks on tarmac before hitting the 4×4 track. This takes you up past La Traverse and Languieu where there are a lot of nice houses dotted around before hitting one of the steepest sections of 4×4 climbing that I have ever done before levelling out at les Quatre Chemins.

From here there is about 400m of sigletrack descent through the Bois de Barbein to the little hamlet of Barbein.

After Barbein there was another 300m of technical descent interspersed with bits of 4×4 track

That brought us nicely back to where we had parked the van.

Here is a map of the ride

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Filed under: Photo on May 19th, 2007