30-Jun-2011
Category : Alpe d'Huez, Featured, Hiking
Sometimes it’s hard to remember why we’re here. During the holiday season we get caught up with work, trying to ensure visitors have such a great experience they’ll want to return to the area again and again. And during the inter-season, the empty town and empty schedule rock me to my core.
09-Jun-2011
Category : Alpe d'Huez, Cycling, Events
Today is the fifth annual Alpe d’HuZes, a purely Dutch event that sees amateur cyclists riding up and down Alpe d’Huez’s 21 bends in aid of cancer charities.
The stats for this event are staggering: 4300 cyclists riding the bends six times to (hopefully) raise 20m€. And let’s not forget the stats of the course: the access road to Alpe d’Huez from Bourg d’Oisans is 14km long, rising over 1000m. An accomplished and fit cyclist would generally make the ascent in just over an hour, and Marco Pantani set the record for the Tour de France in 1997 with a time of 37 minutes and 35 seconds.
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