Col de la Llose

This amazing view made me hit my brakes instantly. This is basically the west side of the Col de la Llose. Coming from the east it’s a nice road but rather unspectacular and feels more like a middle mountain range road. The first part of the descent has nearly the same characteristic but made real fun to descent. In the small village of Ayguatébia-Talau I stopped to put on arm warmers and then continued… until this corner where this view opened. Wow! After a small climb along the stretch of the road you see at the lower left the loooong descent towards Olette continues. It felt endless! All the time running along the narrow and winding D4 alongside the gorge of the Cabril. Views galore but you better hold your eyes on the road since in this stretch there were frequent grit patches in some curves and barriers between you and the deep gorge not really that existent or high. The complete descend brought us 1.240 m nearer to the sea level from the top of the pass over 24 km of small and quite road.

Done