Col du Galibier — Valloire Climb

The northern side of the Galibier, from Valloire up the Valléé des Rochilles. The road runs gently for the first half and then rears up at Plan Lachat, where it crosses the stream and starts the switchbacks to the col at 2,642 m. It has appeared in the Tour de France more than sixty times. [Route details] Start: Valloire (1,402 m) · End: Col du Galibier 18.16 km one way · climb 1,281 m · high point 2,623 m [Along the way] - Plan Lachat at 8 km, where the gradient changes for good - The last 8 km average about 8% [Good to know] - Open roughly June to October. A tunnel just below the summit lets cars skip the last 100 m of climb; the road over the top is the one to take. - The measured high point is 2,623 m against the 2,642 m on the col marker — the road passes a little below the saddle itself. - The southern side climbs from Col du Lautaret and is much shorter. - No cycle route relation covers this climb, so it is routed through the road network with motorways and the roads that ban bicycles left out. - Elevation is sampled from a terrain model, not recorded on the ground.