GPX (and KML) - St Bernard Circular route

[Wapping]

Here, as close as I can make it, is Yarkto’s loop route (minus the seasonal closures and without the ‘added value’ bits) cut into MyRoute.



It looks pretty much right, when compared to the version offered up by Pocket Earth, using the file attached to post #1. Ignore the purple bits, those are just the parts I used to trace over.





About the only thing of interest to note in the first screenshot, is that the shaping points are ordered numerically, along the line of travel. which keeps the route ‘on-track’ as it were.

 

[John Armstrong]

I'm off to Aosta in June and was wondering about doing this loop. Interesting to see that it guestimates the time at around 6 hours, like Basecamp does.

 

[Wapping]

An hour for lunch = 7

Two thirty minute stops for coffee and view gawping = 8

 

[Deleted account 250722001]

+ 30 minutes for prostate comfort breaks...

 

[Wapping]

I thought I had seen something pretty similar before.

This from Tourenfahrer magazine 9/2010

Tourenfahrer 9/2010 - Around Mont Blanc – Google My Maps

Tourenfahrer 9/2010 - Around Mont Blanc

www.google.com

Tour

www.tourenfahrer.de

Simon Wier, for a quid:

St Bernards loop | Simon Weir

France • Start/finish: Bourg St Maurice • Distance: 200 miles • Riding time: 6 hours • My version of the classic touring route, circling Mont Blanc and using both the Grand St Bernard and Petit St Bernard passes. Can be used as an extra-day ride to extend a trip along the Route des Grandes Alpes.

www.simonweir.co.uk

I guess there is a limited number of ways that you can go around a very big mountain, if you don’t want to go under it.