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riders who made it onto the Strada dell'Assietta the night before me got caught in snow
I got caught in a hailstorm on the Agnel. Ended up spending the night up there... that's me sheltering with the guys on the Stone King Rally until their van came to get them and I defrosted enough to roll down about 1.5km to the refuge.
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I believe Via de Sale, etc is all open again. At least to bikes.
All good advice.
I got lucky and barely any rain/bad weather, but riders who made it onto the Strada dell'Assietta the night before me got caught in snow. I did it the next day in sunshine (after staying at the particularly great Rifugio over the top of the Finestre).
Would echo not eating a bad meal on whole trip, EXCEPT Italians are rigid on mealtimes and if you turn up at the wrong time you will often not get fed. Some places also very firm on booking for meals, I think because they'd rather serve no food than bad food.
If/when I do it again I'd try for the leaving a bike box in Turin. You can buy a flimsy cardboard bike box at Nice airport easily, but it still wasn't a very fun experience. I think James was keen to make it a no-fly ride, but not sure this became official policy - partly just because it's so time consuming to get there any other way.
I pointlessly made a food collage for an article I wrote about it (which then didn't get used), should further inspiration be required.