Day 4 Final Leg Sevines le Lac- Tallard 63 kms

The most challenging 63 kms we’ve done since the start on our trip.

We started at 700 m by the lake, and progressively climbed to 1300 m to the top of the Col de Poncis. Fortunately it was cool after the storm the previous night.

A little house on an island. They were maybe the lucky ones who owned a place on a hill when the dam flooded the valley in the late 1950’s🥴 Taken from about 1000 m amsl.

Nearly at the top, looking down at the
27 km/sq reservoir

Now the fun downhill bit to the same lake on the other side of the peninsular.

A very small road. So many hairpins back to 700 m on the other side.

Now we had to head east, the wrong direction for 8 kms, before we could cross the bridge over the river, then climb the other side to 1100 m heading west again🥵

It was very pretty , but the second long climb was on a larger road with more traffic. There were so many motor bikes, many in big groups.

We spoke to a couple and found out that there was a big 4 day bike meeting at Barcelonnette. Very annoying when you’re pedalling up a hill and one by one they race by very close, creating noise in such a beautiful Alpine setting! 😡🥴

( I know, I hear you say; I was a biker once!🫢)

We finally found a little village off the main road and enjoyed a well earned pizza between us and a carafe if Rosé. We felt we earned it having climbed 1000m in total! The batteries were now half full after such a morning.