An easy day to start! It's a gentle roll down to the valley bottom, and our ride will take us round to Argelès-Gazost along Voie Vert – The Green Way – an old railway line with tarmac surface and an excellent place away from any traffic , to start the climb to the ski station of Hautacam a out and back climb but a tough and unrelenting.

Warm up for this one - it's one long climb! We'll start from the town of Luz St Sauveur, heading up the valley past the Pic du Bergons as we ride close to the edge of the Gave du Gavarnie. Heading towards the village of Gèdre this is the easy part: once into Gavarnie village we swing a right and head up the Port du Boucharo and the Spanish border - a total of 32 km.

This is the Tourmalet from Bagnères de Bigorre side. After descending the valley again, the route takes us past the bottom of Hautacam onto a small unknown climb of the Croix Blanche. This takes us through the picturesque valley of Castelloubon to Juncalas where we start the climb of the Croix Blanche, which is sometimes used in the Tour de France and is well used by cyclists, not by cars. We descend to Trébons where we start climbing all the way to the top of the Tourmalet - see you at the top!

We approach the Tourmalet from the reverse side we came down yesterday an run on to the last climb of the day the col d'Aspin. With a return ride through the rolling foothils of the pyrenees.

Another big day sees us tackling the Col d’Aubisque and the Col du Soulour from the hard north south ascent. After this, the hard side of the Col makes today’s ride a tough one and the support vehicle will there to support us in our ride returning over the Col du Soulor.

Today we climb to the ski station of Luz Ardiden. Its the last riding day and for all those that want a extra climb we can add in another climb to Cirque de Troumouse to make your week complete.