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West Alpes 2022 Tour Videos

cramer — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 19:41:54 +0000

I finally took the time to cut all the video material I have taken during my tour this summer. It was a tremendous amount of video material. So I split it apart and made one video per day. All just short of 15 minutes.

Day 1 – Colle del Colombardo / Colle de le Finestre

Day 2 – Assietta Road / Lago Nero

Day 3 – Col de Valbelle / Col de Parpaillon

Day 4 – Maria-Stura Ridge Road

Day 5 – Alta via del Sale / Nord + South

Last day

cramer — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 19:48:50 +0000

The adventurous journey omes to an end. Today Istarted reay early and was on top of the Tende pass at sunrise. There I visited the Frort Central before the Alta Via del Sale Track opened at 8:00.

I was the first on the gate and could start after a few minutes waiting because I was early. The Northern part of the track has stunning landscapes. The number of vehcles per day is limmited and you have to pay a entry fee.

The southern track is free but also in not a suck great shape. I found driving there a lot more challenging. Also the landscape is not that stunning but nevertheless quite nice.

Don’t drive into that tunnel. It goes nowhere!

I will post some additional videos and images of my GoPro and Drone as soon as I have more Infrastructure available. Stay tuned.

Day five

cramer — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:29:17 +0000

Today I made the short but very beautiful Passo della Gardetta. The track is only about 19km. The main part of the height on both sides is a normal street. The view from the track is stunning.

Now I am near Limone Piemonte to start the Alta Via del Sale tomorow.

The fourth day

cramer — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:08:59 +0000

Col de Valbelle

Very nice and relaxing. First part is mainly in the Ski area of Risoul. The view is great up there. Later it goes on in steep forests.

Col de Parpaillon

The highlight of the day. Quite demanding track. It gets realy rock as soon as you leave the Forest area. I think the Northern part is easier then the part on the south side. The tunnel is Fantasic. In the middle section it is bare rock. The ground is over longer parts verry wet, muddy and quite slippery.

Great adventure so far

cramer — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 20:15:09 +0000

Two days have passed since my last post. I’ve done around 100km Offroad. On the first day Colle del Colombardo and Colle delle Finestre. Then I slept at the small Camping ground just at the entrance for the Strada Assietta. Today I drove the Assietta streat which crosses several passes and is nearly 50km long. And because I woke up early the steat was empty in the early hours. I finished the road before midday and thougth I have time for the next Adventure and Drove to the Lago Nero. The older described roundtour seams no longer possible, because there is a driving ban just above the Lake. The last part uf the uphill path was so steap and troublesome, my Tiger had to go to sleep two times.

After that I drove the same way down again and searched an other way over the mountens to the next valley.

Im now in Risoul, France in a small Hotel, ready for the next day to come.

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The journey started

cramer — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 16:59:30 +0000

Today in the morning i packed my bike and hit the road. It was a long day. Drove about 500km and climbed many hils.

Now i found a nice Agriturismo where I stay for the night.

Summer Tour 2022 – Westalpes

cramer — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 19:38:57 +0000

I plan to go to the West Alps (Border between Italy and France). All without Highways and when there as much as I can off of the main roads, on gravel and dirt.

Starting at home passing Switzerland trough the central Switzerland, passing Lake Thun and crossing to Italy over the Great St Bernard Pass. Trough the Aosta Valley traversing north of Turin towards the West Alps where the offroad region starts.

The travel from there is to a great extend away from main roads ending on the meridian sea near Sanremo.