Day 10: In Grenoble - Southeast France: Mountains and Lakes - 2025 - CycleBlaze

May 23, 2025

Day 10: In Grenoble

Time for some normality and high time to get a bike ride in again. At least it wasn't due to sickness or an accident that Janos and I were off our bikes. But the inability to keep track of my belongings was rather unsettling.

Scott mapped out the ride for us. While Rachael went for a hike, Susan, Scott, Janos and I set out for a ride along the Drac river under blue skies. The day has been described in both Susan's and Scott's journals. I'll just show you Janos's video and my pictures. They tend to be rather redundant, but the ride was beautiful and I had a hard time paring down the choice.

Let's start with the video, here come the fields of poppies.

And now for the photo gallery

Crossing the Drac
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Dedicated bike path and hardly any bike traffic
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Can't get enough of these stone formations
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Looking downstream
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First view of the Pont de Claix
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A closer look at the bridge, a highlight of the day for me
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Kathleen JonesWow. what a bridge. And what a location.
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View from the bridge
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The Pont de Claix, built between 1608 and 1611, provided an easy way to cross the Drac and ensure regular communication between Grenoble and the surrounding countryside. Still looking medieval with its humpbacked roadway, its single arch, spanning 46 meters and 16 meters high, represented a real technical feat at the time. (Wiki)
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Mike AylingDid you ride across those cobbles?
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Bill ShaneyfeltSkull rock at the bottom
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Suzanne GibsonTo Mike AylingThank goodness our route dind't go that way!
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Bicycle portrait
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Looking back to the Pont de Claix
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Patrick O'HaraThat's quite a bridge for the time it was built...Impressive engineering.
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Just beautiful
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Amazing profiles
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Fine cycling
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Towards the end of the ride we had views to snowy peaks.
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Photo bomber coming through
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I'll close with this mural.
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Today's ride: 47 km (29 miles)
Total: 171 km (106 miles)

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Susan CarpenterGreat pics Suzanne and I loved the video
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Jacquie GaudetSusan said it!
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Kathleen JonesWhat a day! Great photos. Janos, your video! Wunderbar! Especially the poppies.
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Rachael AndersonI’m sorry I missed doing this ride but the photos and video made me feel like I was there!
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