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First heavy snow on the Stelvio today.

Just a reminder when someone suggests running the 10CR on the same weekend as the RBRR in two years time.

By the way, we've had earlier snow on the Stelvio in the past.

Jim.

why couldnt we have gone in the snowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I love the snow.  

Yes love the snow too, but not the truck loads of salt they use to get it of the road  

Quoted from MWG445

... By the way, we've had earlier snow on the Stelvio in the past ...

Work started yesterday clearing the Stelvio Pass.

This morning, the progress is quite impressive given that the snow is between 8 and 10 feet deep.

Makes our efforts over the winter seem somewhat feeble.

Jim.

Halfway through May and it still looks like that!!

For those of us who haven't been over the Stelvio, is there and up dircetion and down direction or is it a question of up one side and down the other?  

It's not one way if that's what you mean Nick.

So you can do it from the Italian to the Austrian side and then come back again - either way is very very good with some saying Austria to Italy is the best

I'll be there myself this August

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I'll be there myself this August

No I didn't mean was it one way!    Is one direction predominantly uphill and the other downhill?

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Halfway through May and it still looks like that!!

Too tight for rain then McJim?

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Is one direction predominantly uphill and the other downhill?

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No I didn't mean was it one way!    Is one direction predominantly uphill and the other downhill?

Talking of snow, did anyone notice the snow on the top of High Peak, on the A57 Snake Pass, during the HCR? It was mini-glacier shaped, in a shadowy crevice on the left hand side just before you descend into Glossop.

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I'll be there myself this August

Well I am celebrating my 50th by visiting some great places - mainly in the Alps but also including the Nurburgring.

We will arrive at Lake Garda on the night of August 15th (my brithday), stay on a campsite for 3 nights so that we can do some Alpine passes in the vicinity and then return via Switzerland andd France

No further progress on the snow clearing.

June 1st before it's open?

From previous years, they bring all the snow in the adjacent areas down to the point where it has been dumped on the picture, then tip it over the edge with the face shovel.

June 1st may be optimistic although the slopes in the background are starting to clear.

I do hope the 2011 10CR goes back to the Stelvio.

It's like a pilgramage to go there and pay your respects to the builders of one of the most amazing roads in the world.

Wouldn't guess I was in civil engineering road construction, would you?

Jim.

Quoted from Freebird

So will I.

I tried in 2008, but didn't do my homework and went at the end of May. 836 miles and it was shut.
This year going in August to guarantee it's open (famous last words?). I expect to be there on the 11th. Doing my own 10CR, but taking 9 days. Call me a lightweight if you like! It's happened before.

UK
France
Belgium
Holland
Germany - do the 'ring hopefully
Luxembourg
Austria
Liechenstein
Switzerland
and Italy

Glen.

STELVIO!!!

Fun but ultimately dissapointing. This is what my co-driver Steve wrote about the Stelvio at the 2007 10CR. Note the reference to the Gavia Pass and the photo below where Triumph met Audi high on the Gavia.

"Seeing the odd Triumph here and there we managed to get on the road to Stelvio again and found that quite a bunch had started to arrive at Stelvio at the same time.  Unknowingly, we had found the Gavia Pass first which to my mind tested the nerve a lot more that the more popular and easier Stelvio. If you want White Knuckle then Gavia did it for me. Being a co driver you don Don Cook��
Manningtree, Essex

GT6 Mk3 Signal Red (Tomboy), in the past: Triumphs...Vitesse 1600, Toledo. Tiger Cub, Thunderbird.
Ten Countries Run 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015
Several Dutch Rallies.
Some La Carrera Caledonia.

Best trip ever: Ijsselmeer causeway then up through Germany, Denmark...over the two massive bridges of Slorebaeltbroen and Oresund to Ystad in Sweden where we got an overnight ferry to Poland, then on to Berlin etc.

That's Tim and I behind you!

Ah yes, I remember it like it was yesterday.

How we were held up by a red GT6 driven by a granny, I suppose, all the way up the Gavia!


jonnyk5614, check out:

http://www.alpineroads.com/alpmap.php

Best site around for Alpine pass information.

Jim