The route
Marmotte Granfondo Alpes
From Bourg-d'Oisans to Alpe d'Huez, 175.9 km and 5,000 m of climbing over the Glandon, Télégraphe and Galibier, then the 21 hairpins.
Drawn with a pen, line by line
- Distance
- 175.9 km
- Elevation gain
- 5,000 m
- Highest point
- 2,634 m
- Summits, passes and villages
- 75
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The route in numbers
Indicative figures computed by Plotrek on its illustrative route, with altitudes from a terrain model. They may differ from the organiser's.
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Reading the route
This cyclosportive starts at 6:30 a.m. in the center of Bourg-d'Oisans, at 722 m. The road climbs to the Col du Glandon, crossed at kilometer 36.7 at 1,920 m. A technical descent then leads to Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, at kilometer 79.8, at 712 m. The Col du Télégraphe follows, at kilometer 92.1 at 1,558 m, on the road to Valloire.
After Valloire, the route takes on the longest climb of the day: 1,230 m of elevation gain between kilometer 96.9 and kilometer 114.9, up to the Col du Galibier, the high point at 2,634 m. It then descends over the Col du Lautaret, passes La Grave, at kilometer 134.4, at 1,483 m, and reaches Mizoën, at kilometer 148.2, at 1,069 m.
The road returns to the valley floor at Bourg-d'Oisans, then tackles the 21 hairpins that climb to Alpe d'Huez. The foot of this last climb closes at 5:45 p.m. The finish is at Alpe d'Huez, at kilometer 175.9, at 1,812 m, after 5,000 m of climbing on paved alpine passes.
Paths and places: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Altitudes measured on the route.
03 · Your poster
The route, drawn with a pen
The relief of La Marmotte takes shape in contour lines on a poster drawn with a pen plotter, line by line, in A4, A3 or A2.
Shipped from our workshop in Le Bouscat
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Official information
- Illustrative route redrawn by Plotrek from public data: the course announced by the organiser and OpenStreetMap paths. It is not the official course of the event.
- Altitudes: terrain model AWS Terrain Tiles
- Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors
- Figures and text: Plotrek
- Plotrek is not a partner of, or affiliated with, the race organiser.