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Both of those I've been up in miserable weather in summer kit.
I think we rode the Galibier the day after or the day before people had to be carried off it during that Tdf stage sportive thing. It was snowing. CdF back in 2009 was pretty fucked - I was the only one that went up in a rain storm (obvs, I'm a fucking idiot) and, guess what? It's a LOT colder coming down than riding up. Something I didn't really think about as a fat flat track specialist with little experience in the mountains. I had borrowed someone's jacket/gilet but still had summer gloves, etc. That stands out as being properly grim descent but fun to think about because I didn't (quite) die. :D