1.Route des Grandes Alpes - Day One

<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: medium; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Kalimati, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">80km, 2310m gain, 2 cat. 1 cols</span>

&lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: small; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Kalimati, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"&gt;On the first day of this epic tour we have 30 km to warm up our legs before the big first ascent starts.&nbsp; Having been included in the Tour de France 20 times, the Col de la Colombiere is where this tour really starts.&nbsp; Wild and uninhabited, at 16.3km with a height gain of 1108m it is a climb of two halves with a gentler section in the middle. A fast descent down to Thones and we start to climb again, up through the ski resort of La Clusaz to the Col de Aravis.&nbsp; With a gain of 630m the col is a low point in the impressive high ridgeline of the Aravis chain.&nbsp; From here we head to Crest Voland at the foot of the following mornings climb.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: small; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Kalimati, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"&gt;Accommodation:&nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;H&ocirc;tel La Mollini&egrave;re,&nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;73590 Notre Dame de Bellecombe (Savoie &bull; France),&nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;T&eacute;l. 04 79 31 61 51&lt;/span&gt;