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December 5 to 6, 2009
Yours Truly and Pilar
Distance: 101 km
From: Valence
To: Montelimar
Local species: horses, poneys, pigs, sheep, goats and hunters
Support vehicle: train!
Departement de l'Ardeche, FRANCE
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Chowing chicken in Valence before take off. |
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First climb out of Valence. Ahhh warm sunshine! |
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Climbing out of beautiful Toulaud on sweet double/single track and fantastic light. The weekend before we'd done the bump of a crest on the horizon after dark with our headlights. It's a sweet ridge overlooking Valence, with steep cliffs on the east side and castle ruins on one end. Pretty cool to do in the dark! |
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Cool single track down from Col des Ayes. |
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Following the GR! |
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Stream crossing. |
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Pilar and I both had the same rear rack setup. We had winter bags, tent and some spare clothes all stuffed in to our yellow waterproof bags. Sweet system, works well. |
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Rad downhill all the way into the valley, at the end of day 1, towards Saint Laurent du Pape. |
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Morning of day 2. |
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Near beautiful Saint-Cierge-la-Serre (600m). |
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Descending to Saint Julien en Saint Alban. Pilar is on the road at the left of this panorama. South of the Vercors in the background. |
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Yeehaw! |
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Following the GR. |
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The clouds 're starting to build! |
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Feeding some very stumpy poneys. |
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The wheat fields starting to sprout. |
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And some more local species. |
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Rad final technical descent from hunter's territory, down to Meysse and Montelimar. |
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Montelimar in the background. |
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Oouf!!! Climbing some steeeep stairs in Meysse. Cool trip! |
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