Passhöhen des TPBR2019

A few of the pass signs of this summers Three Peaks Bike Race I came across.

 

It might be called three peaks because it always looks for three special passes and makes them into obligatory Controll points where the riders have to pass and proof their passage in an otherwise individually planned route but even if you would try you of course summit many more passes on the way to the finish line. But why try to avoid when you can also collect them? 😄

 

So I counted 18 official passes (meaning somewhat meaningful crossings up one side and down another side of a significant hill or mountain and or with an official „Pass“, „Col“, „Collada“ etc. sign on top of it) and from these 18 passes lo and behold 15 were new for me.

 

Of course I’ve ridden the Stelvio, the Reschenpass or the Norbertshöhe quite a few times now. But since I was never in the Pyrenees before and I also never rode from Torino into France all the other Passes where new to me.

See the following list for the order of appearance of said passes:

 

Germany:

Steinpass (from Bad Reichenhall)

 

Italy:

Stilfserjoch / Passo dello Stelvio

 

Austria:

Norbertshöhe

 

Italy:

Reschenpass

Colle delle Finestre (from Susa)

Colle di Sestriere (from the Finestre)

 

France:

Col de Montgenèvre (from Cesena Torinese)

Col de Macuègne (from Séderon) (Drome Provençale)

Col de l'Homme Mort (from Col de Macuègne)

Col de Villerouge

Col de Bédos (from Félines Termenes) (Corbières)

Col du Paradis (from Albières)

Col de Coudans (from Campagne Sur Aude)

Col du Chioula (from Belcaire)

 

Andorre:

Port d’Envalira (from Ax-les-Thermes) (highest paved Pass of the Pyrenees)

Coll d’Ordino (from Canillo)

Ordino-Arcalis (from Ordino)

 

Spain:

Collade de Clarà

Done