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<\/center><\/p>\nThey’re calling it a legendary climb already. <\/p>\n
It took six years to build, but finished in 1934 the road connected the little village of Montvernier, high above on a plateau, with civilization below. There are 17 hairpins climbing just over 900 feet in 2.5 kilometers on a narrow road with an average eight percent incline. (Plenty steep for me.)<\/p>\n
Above is a picture of my television screen, of course. Here’s a shot from the Tour site<\/a>: <\/p>\n Magnificent. I include this here because, you never know, I may make it to that part of France one day. If I do I will find a bike to ride up that scenic goat track<\/a>. More of the beautiful views here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t talk about televised cycling here — and you’re welcome — but today’s stage of the Tour de France was a special one. I enjoy the racing, but I’m really watching for the scenery, particularly of the mountain stages, like today’s. And this road, Les Lacets de Montvernier, appearing in the race for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573888390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-friday","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573888390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573888393,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888390\/revisions\/573888393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573888390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573888390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573888390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july15\/lacets.jpg\")
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