Any other "Club des Cingles"?
Any other "Club des Cingles"?
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Daveyraveygravey

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2,112 posts

214 months

Thursday 9th June 2016
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Mont Ventoux has this club for riders who have climbed the three ascents to the summit in a day. To join officially you have to pay, which gets a brevet card you need to have stamped and some kind of plate to attach to your bike. Are there any climbs that have anything similar? I'm trying to think of mountains that have more than 2 routes up that don't get muddled with ascents of other mountains close by.
It strikes me as a stepping stone to an Everesting attempt, something a fit cyclist/good climber could do without training for 6 months, and not requiring 18+ hours of continual riding.

JPJ

422 posts

279 months

Thursday 9th June 2016
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Not sure about other mountains with something similar to Ventoux.

However, there are technically four routes to the summit as there's also an offroad one which can just about be be ridden on a road bike (CX bike might be the better option).

anonymous-user

84 months

Thursday 9th June 2016
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I believe Leith Hill has numerous ascent routes and as we know, Surrey hills are very demanding wink

Daveyraveygravey

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2,112 posts

214 months

Thursday 9th June 2016
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There's an Octopus of Leith Hill, so possibly 8 routes up there?!

JPJ - the 4th route is on the Club des Cingles site, not many have attempted all 4.

richardxjr

7,561 posts

240 months

Friday 10th June 2016
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I'm up for a Galerians (4x) Dave :-)

There was talk of a PH outing, but Eurostar have made it impossible. Still, where there's a will there's a way...

idiotgap

2,113 posts

163 months

Friday 10th June 2016
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richardxjr said:
I'm up for a Galerians (4x) Dave :-)

There was talk of a PH outing, but Eurostar have made it impossible. Still, where there's a hill there's a way...

Madness60

634 posts

214 months

Friday 10th June 2016
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Tried this last month, did the climb from Malacene then Bedioun but 40 mph wind, rain, no feeling in fingers for first 10k of descent meant we didn't do the Sault (the easy one!) climb. Its a hard slog, 60+ kms of climbing but doable. Got to think about how much to eat and drink all the time.

JEA1K

2,747 posts

253 months

Friday 10th June 2016
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