More Photos from La Foux

Jack and Sarah and the tower of Pisa

 Jack and Sarah

 Sarah enjoying the view

 Jack and Daddy

 Sarah and doudou

 Only Mummy missing

 Sarah and Jack in the mountains

 Sarah styling

Piste de luge

Horse Ride

First horse ride outside the stables for Jack and the first one for a few years for Sylvie.....

Summer Holiday in La Foux

Some Candy Floss - thats the kids hidden behind.

 Building a tower to the ceiling - with a bit of help

 Lac d'Allos

 Horse Show

 Sylvie needing some help to wade across the stream

 Jack playing in the stream

 The girls playing

 Sarah, Jack and Theo

 Panoramic view from the apartment

 Sarah and Polly

 Hiking

 Food break at 2400m

 Jacks archery competition

 Panorama

 Jack

 Hiking

 Col des Champs

Col de la Bonette

Looking back down into the valley.  About 8km from the cimes.

 Out of the saddle.

 And on the way down.

Photos from declicphoto.net

Mont Ventoux - July 2013

The 'Giant of Provence' as it is called.  This is taken from where I started from, Bedoin.

 This is the view after coming out of the forest, the first view of the end since the start, already done about 10-12km at 10% gradient.  It is as tough as they say.  Interestingly, there is a constant Stream of people cycling and running up, it does not seem to stop.

 The final 4-6km.

One photo taken on the way up by griffephotos.com

 

 The final 1-2km.  Note, I took all these photos on the way down, no stopping on the way up.  It was about here that I started to cramp in my right hamstring.

 The monument to Tom simpson, the English cyclist who died here during a Tour de France stage.

 The top was full of people (mostly Italians) on mobylettes and Fiat 500s, go figure.....

 Well I made it to the top, approx 21km, approx 1,500m of climbing, average gradient of 7,4% (it felt like more!) in 1h50 minutes, average speed of 11.7kph, the TdF guys do it in approx 21kph!  It was tough but ready to try again, really need to improve my cadence, most of the time sub 70 and even dropping to sub 60 when I should be closer to 80.  Thats my homework.....

On Strava, have the 1,268th time out of 3,579 people.

Sarah Dance 2013