One hundred road passes in the Vosges mountains
Presentation
An 840km route with a vertical drop of around 18,000m, including 100 mountain passes, all of them road, mapped out by Alain Brault (Cent Cols No. 3693).
Theme
The Club des Cent Cols, founded in 1972, is affiliated to the French Cycling Federation under No. 6384, offers you this permanent hike based on a simple theme: "One hundred passes". One hundred passes, either to enable you to join the Confrérie du Club des Cent Cols, or to enable you to progress up the Confrérie's "Tableau d'Honneur".
From Wissembourg on the German border to Cernay near Mulhouse, from the sandstone Vosges in the north to the crystalline Vosges in the south, in ten sections averaging 80km in length, it stretches across 3 regions (Alsace, Lorraine and Franche-Comté) using roads in 6 départements (Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Moselle, Vosges, Haute-Saône and Territoire de Belfort).
Controls
The ten checks will be carried out at points along the route chosen by the rider, with one check in each section.
- Wissembourg - Niederbronn
- Niederbronn - Saverne
- Saverne - Schirmeck
- Schirmeck - Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
- Saint-Dié-des-Vosges - Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines
- Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines - Gérardmer
- Gérardmer - Le Thillot
- Le Thillot - Oderen
- Oderen - Oderen
- Oderen - Cernay
Main passes
- Pottaschkopf Pass
- Saverne Pass
- Col du Champ du Feu
- Col du Donon
- Col des Bagenelles
- Col du Bonhomme
- Col de la Schlucht
- Col du Mont Fourche
- Passage de Vés
- Col d'Oderen
- Col du ballon d'Alsace
- Col du Haag
BCN and BPF sites on the route
- Philippsbourg
- Obersteinbach
- Le Haut-Barr
- Le Lac Blanc
- Le Grand Ballon
- Col de la Schlucht
- Gérardmer, Eloyes
- Val d'Ajol
- Ballon d'Alsace
Rules of the game for permanent walks
All participants in this permanent trail agree to respect the game rules governing it.
For further information
Contact the person in charge of permanent walks
Jean-Marc CLEMENT
10 rue de Normandie
31120 Portet sur Garonne
FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0)5 61 76 30 12
E-mail: [email]randos@centcols.org [/email]
Please note: Please send your roadmaps for homologation as well as your postcards and travelogues only to the current person in charge, whatever you find as old information (so do not write to Roger Colombo, Bernard Pommel, Jean-Marc Lefèvre or Roland Grimaud †).