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Old 05-13-09 | 06:31 AM
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From: Montréal
Originally Posted by Erick L
There's a 2km 20% going to île-aux-Coudres but it's a small road and I missed it.
That's the old road descending to the île-aux-Coudres ferry. Here's the new road. There's a sharp turn where the 18% becomes 10%. I walked part of it... descending. It looks like a wall of pavement from the ferry. A bus tour fell off the cliff a few years ago, killing everyone (but one?). Île-aux-Coudres is a little cycling heaven but most people get there in a motor vehicule.



Further on the same road, a third of the way down a 3km at 11%. Then it goes up a narrow and twisty 18% through a village. I was grinding slowly in the rain and a little kid asked if I was training for something. I was breating too hard to talk so his mom answered I was just on vacation. What a vacation...



Looking back from the other side, after the 18% through the village:

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