A view of the ski resort village of Cortina D'Ampezzo where we had stayed in a hotel, the first for a few nights and a much deserved & needed one at that, given that yesterday had been the Queen Stage of the tour (basically for the non-cyclists among you, the day with the most climbing) on what had been a wet and somewhat miserable day.
A view of the scenery a few kilometres down the road, and a good excuse for me to take a brief rest stop, given that there were to be three fairly reasonable climbs on today's stage, even if it wasn't to be a particularly long ride from a distance perspective.
Oh, and the problem with riding at altitude, as if you couldn't have guessed it - It's bloody cold! Do not believe for one moment whatever the bike computer has recorded / shows you, the temperature was actually recorded at 3 degrees at the top of at least two of our mountain tops.
In other words, quite a fair bit of time today was spent with a view of snow on the mountain peaks and quit often by the side of the road. Very picturesque, but cold nonetheless. Today's route map profile - Cortina D'Ampezzo to Canazei
Team Red - At the highest (and final) peak for the day, showing off our purchases from the night before. Getting soaked to the bone yesterday had been no fun at all, hence the three of us had headed off into town to see what we could pick up that would be water as well as wind proof.
All three of us, Annie, Nicki and myself all tried on a multitude of jackets and it was by pure chance and I suppose a bit of "team building" that we all ended up buying the exact same colour & design of gortex jacket. My legs incidentially are not as pale as they might appear, it's just they were a tad cold.
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