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jonuxuk
@Brommers
Switzerland this weekend for me, and @Cycliste decided that we should go up and down the Dent de Morcles. You can't get all the way over the top of the pass on road bikes, so it would have to be a there and back ride, but there's a buvette at 1675m so we made that our destination.
The bottom part of the climb climbs up through the woods, basically up the side of a cliff with many, many hairpins. And some rather splendid scenery.
Once you get out of the woods it gets a bit flatter, but still many hairpins as you climb out of the village of Morcles.
For the last few kms before the buvette the road turns to gravel, with some mahoosive drainage channels running across it.
At the buvette there's a splended view of the Dent de Morcles itself in one direction.
And a view of the Rhone valley running into Lake Geneva on the other side.
Quick bit of food and some drinks, and it's time to head back to Bex train station. Not a long ride, but a good one, and the altimetry chart has a pleasing simplicity to it.