Who needs pictures of Chris Froome looking like he’d be lost without Ritchie Porte when you come across something like this! We found these two guys about a third of the way up the Col de la Madeliene which, curiously, was about as far as we got up the mountain today. The plan had been to make a grand loop, but the weather forecast looked so bad that I gave serious thought to scrapping any riding at all. Fortunately when I got up, it didn’t look like the weather forecast was correct, so we drove out to La Chambre and got as high as we could before overtaken by the race. Lots of photos coming soon… probably get a chance to edit them on the plane coming home on Monday. –Mike–
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Scared of heights?
![We could have just ridden up Alpe d'Huez, but lots of people do that. For a good time, check out road D211A!](http://chainreactionblogs.com/diary/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/IMG_1995scared_of_heights.jpg)
We saw this road a couple years ago, when we were riding another cliff-hanging road on the other side of the valley. Said we’d have to check it out. So we did! And wow, what an amazing road. Not an easy ride; lots more climbing involved than “just” climbing Alpe d’Huez. More on today’s adventures soon, but yes, we took lots of photos, had a great time riding in the Alps, and met up with yet another rainstorm. –Mike–