Summer in the Alps

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Freezing your feckin nuts off................ :eek::eek:

Jockser, Padge, Jim & Pat are away on a 12 day ride in Europe in a Steptoe stylee, ie the plan is there is no plan. :cool:

These pics are from yesterday at Alpe d'Huez and the Furka Pass.

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Yes indeed, the pair of us exchanged text messages at the weekend,

he led me up a merry path thinking we might be of on a spin last Sunday, then the fecker text me that he was away:cool:


My own fault for posting the Speedo photo and hiding his keys on the fish dash:blast

Enjoy...........:aidan

Anyway I did manage a wee spin all the same on Sunday afternoon and had a great time along some of the Canal walk-ways:thumb
 

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Ravenbyrne said:
Yes indeed, the pair of us exchanged text messages at the weekend,

he led me up a merry path thinking we might be of on a spin last Sunday, then the fecker text me that he was away:cool:


My own fault for posting the Speedo photo and hiding his keys on the fish dash:blast

Enjoy...........:aidan

Anyway I did manage a wee spin all the same on Sunday afternoon and had a great time along some of the Canal walk-ways:thumb
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Brian, are those pics taken along the canal between Maynooth and Kilcock
 
Hi looks great - we were there in June once and there was an avalanche that blocked te Susstenpasse!

How has the weather been whilst over there in the swiss alpes/french alpes? Going over w/c 27th Sept this year.

:D
 
Is it normally that snowy at this time of the year???:nenau
 
We musta been the luckiest Cnuts on earth last weekend!

West of Scotland in Sunshine...............................

Pic One ....South Ballchuilish

Pic Two .....
 

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Pix sick

Commando memorial Spean Bridge

Loch Cluanie Kintail (?)

Kylerhea Ferry heading for Skye

Bealach Na Ba heading for the hairpins
 
Mide said:
Is it normally that snowy at this time of the year???:nenau
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Nope..

Michael R1150GS Adventure said:
Hi looks great - we were there in June once and there was an avalanche that blocked te Susstenpasse!

How has the weather been whilst over there in the swiss alpes/french alpes? Going over w/c 27th Sept this year.

:D
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the weather has been shite to be honest...... and as you can see the first snows have arrived.

it was 6C at an altitude of 400m on mon morning
 
swissrob said:
Nope..



the weather has been shite to be honest...... and as you can see the first snows have arrived.

it was 6C at an altitude of 400m on mon morning
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thanks for info - apart from at altitude has the weather been reasonable? ie not silly wet or daft cold? :type
 
Just back.
4000 + kms.
0 degrees at top of Furka pass, up to 27 other places.
France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Germany.
We were told in a few places that they'd recently had snow and how unusual it was at this time of year.

Jockser'll be along shortly with a photo or 500.
 
Michael R1150GS Adventure said:
thanks for info - apart from at altitude has the weather been reasonable? ie not silly wet or daft cold? :type
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Nope.... the weather has been crap this year, we had approx 1 month of decent normal summer and then the rest has been broken days of cloud/sun followed by days of rain etc.

i would bring your rain gear and somthing warm you can throw on.

At the moment its not bad, just cloudy in day and pissing down in the evening.
 
swissrob said:
Nope.... the weather has been crap this year, we had approx 1 month of decent normal summer and then the rest has been broken days of cloud/sun followed by days of rain etc.

i would bring your rain gear and somthing warm you can throw on.

At the moment its not bad, just cloudy in day and pissing down in the evening.
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yup - july was stonkingly hot .... august was damp and nasty. And today it is cold (13 degrees)
 
Michael R1150GS Adventure said:
How has the weather been whilst over there in the swiss alpes/french alpes? Going over w/c 27th Sept this year.

:D
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As Kamikaze has said we'd a fair mix of temperatures throughout the trip but it was (almost) always dry - it rained heavily during the ferry crossing but once we got to Roscoff it stopped & the roads dried rapidly. Then on the way back we had torrential rain for the last 60+ km into Cherbourg and again north of Wexford on the run home :(

But the rest of the time it was mainly warm & always sunny. The low lying places were generally 20 - 27 while in the mountains it was usually 10 - 20 with the exception of the Furka Pass where we dropped to 0 :eek:

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