I descended Galibier once when we had 8ft snow wall on the ascent from the Valloir side. I was doing about 80kph when I saw a Marmot over to the right and thought ‘aw that’s cute’ next thing the fat little f**ker is not stopping and heading for the road. Let’s just say it was ‘close’
We stopped at the cafe ran by the Irish lady at the junction of Galibier and Lautaret and had a huge lunch, then climbed back up Galibier and then over the back of Telegraphe, back to St Michel, then back up to Valmenier 1600.
Unfortunately, I didn’t take the pics of myself, the guy running our camp did. I posted them on the Aussie forum but just looked, and they were hosted on TinyPic and now gone forever
It does have that setting as well. You can link it to a HR monitor, so it ramps up in fan strength as your HR increases, or you can align it to speed, so as you recover downhill it blasts you in the face, and as you crawl uphill at a snails pace you get nearly zero cooling.
That latter setting is slated by all reviewers as pretty pointless, but if you truly wanted to simulate alpine climbing then I guess it gives you that! Fully aware of what hot alpine climbing entails … I’m a v.salty sweater!
Also went up the Galiber, I did have a very thin Montane featherlight jacket that slightly saved me from hyperthermia on the way down, although I think my hands struggled to work the brakes.
Half of them are Aussie. When we moved in here, there were very few power points on the wall. We totally re-did every room, changing singles to double USB and putting extra ones in. Don’t really need all those now.
Here’s a picture of the floor today. Much cleaning to do!
but the first few Q & A’s are great