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Today @Cycliste and I decided to ride over the Col du Mittelberg. Leaving Vevey we headed up to Chatel St Denis via Blonay, and headed up to Bulle for coffee and cakes. Suitably fed and watered, we headed over to the Col du Mittelberg, past Gruyere, in warm and dry conditions but with ominous clouds ahead of us:
It started raining at the start of the main climb, and by the top of the Col it was properly wet. And cold - there's still plenty of snow around at that height (1600m) to the extent that the little cul-de-sac leading off from the top of the Col was still under a foot of snow.
By the time we got down the other side to Saanen we were both freezing cold and very squelchy, so rather than do the Col du Pillon and head to Aigle we decided to get the train from Saanen. There was an hour's wait until the next train, so we started off with a couple of beers, followed by a cheese fondu and a bottle of Fendant.
Not quite as long a ride as we'd hoped for, but still a decent afternoon's cycling. I've nearly dried out and warmed through too.
P.S. Bugger. Turns out the Tour de Romandie went through Bulle today, albeit quite a lot before us. No wonder all the cyclists were going in the other direction. Oh well. We had cake and coffee.