September 8 to 11, 2006 Jamie and Yours Truly Distance: 385 km Number of Cols: 10 Elevation Gain: 5850 m Where: Hautes Alpes and Alpes de Haute Provence Col number one: Monteynard (855m). Col number two:  Le Mollard (900m). Col number three: Col des Festreaux (1106m). Fresh corn for dinner! Camping in the fields. Col number four. Col number five: Lac de Serre-Poncon. Our hobo tent on night 2. Ants and shotguns were a good intro to an epic day 3... Easy morning warmup on the 1400m Col de la Cayolle in the Parc National du        Mercantour. Col number six: Col de la Cayolle (2326m). Anyone up for a 33km descent?  Yeeeeeehaw! Col number seven: Col de Valberg (1673m). Col number eight: Col de la Couillole (1678m). Anyone up for another 28km descent? And a nice solid 1000 metres of climbing and bonking to finish        the day off!  That's 4 cols and  2500m vertical in a single day.        Not to mention 64km of high speed car-passing downhill!  Oh        my legs!   Col number nine. Col number ten: fixing a busted chain near Levens (~400m). Nice!!!  Sporting the good old farmer's tan amongst the pasty tourists        and the well bronzed locals.  Saweet! Ha, yeah... 11 cracks in my rear wheel.  Rode this sucker for 250       km.  Thanks to Jamie for taking the weight!