Col du Télégraphe

Yeah.

We did the, we did the Alpe d'Huez, we did the Telegraph, the Galibier, we did the-

Saren

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... full gas.

It's just, yeah, it's incredible.

To do, we did, we did the Telegraph and the Galibier together, because they're, they're connected by a small little valley.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What was it? Yeah, Telegraph, Olivier Alpe d'Oise.

To go in the breakaway on that day, I think I got that right.

To go in the breakaway on that day, just, he jumped across to the break.

With its five wonderful villages, open plateau and reservoir, these all provide a striking contrast with the narrower valleys elsewhere on the route.

From the Haute-Maurienne and continuing towards Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, before climbing through the Col de Télégraphe to Valois, this is an area of the Moraine Valley I have come to know very well.

With the new international train station being built in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, a town commonly referred to as the road cycling capital of the world, The new train line being built between Lyon and Turin will revolutionise travel times to this part of the French Alps, once completed, in 2032-2033, ensuring journey times from Paris taking just three hours and from Milan only one hour.

Valois, which sits at an altitude of 1,450 metres, is an authentic, lively alpine village and ski resort, where during the winter 70% of its 160 kilometres of slopes that rise to 2,750 metres sit above 2,000 metres and are shared with its neighbouring resort, that of Valminiae.