Region: French Alps
Climbing effort: 701 cep
Elevation meters: 1058
Steepest kilometer: 10.3%

Steepest 250 m: 11%
Foot: 314 m    Top: 1202 m
Mean slope: 3.6%
Length: 24.9 km

From: St-Laurent-en-Royans
Road conditions (2020): average
Other race bikers: 5-10 per hour
Motor vehicles: 30-60 per hour
Scenerie and road: (2/5)
Restaurant or bar near top: no

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This actually is a combination of the ascent to the Col de la Machine from St-Laurent-en-Royans and the continuation to the Col de Carri. Depending on your mood, the first part can be replaced by the parallel climb from St-Jean-en-Royans to the Col de la Machine, which on this website forms the first part of an ascent to the Col de Chaud Clapier. I was a little disappointed by this trip. The road, especially up to the Col de la Machine, is quiet but broad and virtually without a view of the lots of fantastic, steep and colored rock faces of the Vercors. During the first 11.5 kilometers from St-Laurent, 772 elevation meters are climbed, on a road that leads continuously upward, but with a strongly varying slope. The steepest kilometer (10.3%) begins about four kilometers after the start. After these first 11.5 kilometers of climbing, there is an alternation of up- and down-going sections until the Col de la Machine, which, strangely enough, is not a pass at all for cyclists. The remaining seven kilometers to the Col de Carri run through the forest and are definitely not steep (maximum 5%).