{"id":1006,"date":"2017-03-11T15:47:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T15:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress208\/the-best-unknown-scale-in-france-with-regard-to-cyclists.html"},"modified":"2017-03-11T15:47:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T15:47:31","slug":"the-best-unknown-scale-in-france-with-regard-to-cyclists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"The best unknown scale in France with regard to cyclists!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless you are a local bike owner, you have probably never read about Mont Colombis (1734m)?! Not many people have, however ?for those in the ‘recognize ‘ and the connoisseurs?from the French cycling world, it has?earned your reputation of being among the list of toughest road climbs in France, or even ?THE? toughest.<\/p>\n

It is often a?pretty mountain tucked within the Southern France Alps decorated with telephony masts on it’s peak?and it?is thanks to these masts there is a road! The climb can be?short but sharp at 12km long?by having an average gradient with 9%. It is?the perfect struggle for hill going up the cyclists and the reward at the top is?an incredible panoramic view covering the Ecrins National Park, a Durance Valley and the amazing turquoise waters within the Serre Poncon lake.<\/p>\n

\"Cycling<\/p>\n

It is a unremitting climb and it’azines straight in, from the village with Remollon at around 674m of height. The first section walks you through the vines in addition to orchards and with a incline of ?8% to get up you up! After this you arrive at the quaint and very alpine, perched village of Theus (910m) where them steepens quite sharply to around 10% gradient. You can end for some fresh off-road water at the feature here.<\/p>\n

\"Village<\/p>\n

As you proceed you will pass the actual famous geological site on the ?desmoiselles coiff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unless you are a local bike owner, you have probably never read about Mont Colombis (1734m)?! Not many people have, however ?for those in the ‘recognize ‘ and the connoisseurs?from the French cycling world, it has?earned your reputation of being among the list of toughest road climbs in France, or even ?THE? toughest. It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[61,66,48,97,52],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-western-europe","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-regions","tag-road-travel","tag-speciality-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}