Italian gateway
The VLV alpine trip continued to the Lombarde Pass linking France to Italy.
1. Going up to Isola 2000, VivaLaVida crosses a small reach to reach a pretty picnic place.
2. Having good time…
3. Emile loves to be in the nature…
4. Over the pass under a rain shower.
5. Small lake going down to Italy.
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7. Switchback turns on the Italian side.
8. Arrival at the Tende Pass and its various abandoned fortress.
9. The view towards North is immense…
10. Some ruins are quite large.
11. We will spend the night in one of these abandonned fortress.
12. Inside one of those…
13. Sun is setting…
14. South side of the Tende Pass, in France.
15. Sunset behind the mountains…
16. Campfire under the stars. This will unfortunately be the only one of this vacation, the riss of wildfire being very high at the moment…
To be followed soon…
D5 Creation
Super la 7!!
Pour un pédaleur du dimanche que je suis , ça fait envie de grimper par là.
Il y de supers routes cyclistes effectivement !
Tente Pass moves me to imagine the ride upon my peddle Trek . Sheepishly I’d admit to the additional mind image of blasting up there on a great moto cycle .. or even my Vespa ! Thanks for sharing this voyage !!
Thanks Canyon. I admit that I was also surprised by this place. I want to go back and explore more trails in this area…
Sorry Canyoon, some bad manipulations revealed 3 updates in the English version while only one is published in French. So I deleted both updates published too soon. But I still answer your question about VLV lighting.
The front one is a GoLight. It’s a HID mobile headlight that I control from the dashboard. It turns 360° and is very convenient to look for a campsite when it’s already dark.
The rear one is a a wide angle Rigid LED light that I operate from inside, convenient to see behind when the vehicle is stopped. To backup, in addition to the stock reverse lights, there are two additionnal lights in the bumper.
The device located embeded in the side door is the diesel stove exhaust. The stove is installed on a cabinet attached to the door. It allows to cook outside when door is opened. You can see it on the 11th picture of this article: https://www.instants-choisis.ch/blog/?m=201309&lang=en 😉
Sublime le site du campement !
Oui, bel endroit, en plus bien abrité alors que ça soufflait fort. Il faudra qu’on y retourne, il y a plein d’autres pistes qui ont l’air sympas et d’autres forts à découvrir… 🙂