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Make it easier for future members to enter their collars

You've climbed some passes, perhaps even more than you think, because some don't have summit signs and you may have crossed them without knowing it.

Have you climbed at least 100 passes, including 5 over 2000m, or are you about to do so? Then it's time to think about joining the Club des Cent Cols!

Find out more about Rules of the game to make sure you're 'in the clear'; you'll see, for example, that you don't need to provide any proof of the passes you've climbed - your good faith is more than enough.

So here we go, all you have to do is put together your list of collars. In the what to do on the club's website, we'll explain how to draw up this list.

There are a number of tools you can use to find and list your passes, forgotten or otherwise.

On the club website (and accessible to non-members)

1- Using the CCway application

You can download a maximum of 100 passes in GPX or KLM data (when you become a club member, the number of downloadable passes will be unlimited).

The resulting file can be opened with mapping software or Google Earth to help you locate them.

It's handy for viewing your collars, but not enough for building the list, as you only get the collar code!

2- Using the "cols sur trace" application

If you have a GPX track, the application can find all the passes you have climbed, and list them with the code, full name and altitude (which may be different from the code).

At this stage, you have everything you need to compile your membership list.

The application also allows you to import the names and codes of the passes on the route so that you can view them in a mapping application, such as Land with a World Base Map:

Thanks to Openrunner

Openrunner is a mapping and route management website,
partner of the Club des Cent Cols

On the Club des Cent Cols website, go to JOIN US then HOW TO DO IT

Follow the tutorial on creating your list with Openrunner.

Pass by pass, you'll be able to keep track of the passes you've climbed and build up your list of passes.

And it will be much easier and quicker to do this if you use the gpx track obtained with the "passes on tracks" application (see § 1-1 above): all the passes will be marked on your track.

Thanks to veloenfrance

If you're a regular visitor to this website, Veloenfrance is a website of the French Cycling Federation

• Click on the club logo on each pass to see the name, altitude and category of the pass;
• A second click takes you to our pass "viewer", which provides additional information (code, maps, photos, documents). 

The only limitation is that veloenfrance only offers road passes and cycle routes (known as R1 and S1 in our jargon) in around ten European countries.

Any final questions?

Do you know, for example, where "Foce di Travo" is, or the "Col de la Bergère" or the "Col de l'Aire dei Masco" or other passes just as confidential?

No ? Our teams have scouted over 100,000 passes around the world, validated almost as many and we don't know them by heart.

So take the full name of the pass you're looking for, add centcols.orgin a query on a search engine such as Google or Qwant. For example, on Qwant :

Chances are, the search engine will find the pass you're looking for and give you all the information you need, plus photos and even a link to our pass viewer:

https://centcols.org/util/geo/visu.php?code=FR-2A-0050

This link will take you to our viewer page:

If, despite all these explanations, you still can't do it, there's no need to panic. Contact the person in charge of registrations at inscriptions@centcols.org. She's in charge of registering new members, and she'll be delighted to help you.