cycling Plateau de Beille - Les Cabannes

This summer, I stayed on a camping in Oust nearby Saint Girons. At 7 oclock I started in Oust and fisrt climbed the Col dAgnes and Port de lers before climbing the plateau de Beille. It goes immediately very steep and above the average in the first part of the climb.With this mind you know then that the second part will be easier and it became very easy nearby the top. I was a little bit disappointed at the top because I saw no sign with the height. There is only one building and a lot of cows. The advantage: almost nobody goes to the top except bikers and walkers. I almost lost control during the descend because of small gaps in the road. I went back to Oust via the col de Port.

My personal climb rating: 5 stars

I am a cancer patient who climbed to rode to the top of Plateau de Beille in 2006. I have multiple myeloma and was treated with high dose chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant in 2004. In remission, having recovered about 80% of my strength levels, I wanted to see if I could do it. It was the second hardest thing Ive ever done next to the transplant - like nothing Ive seen anywhere else. But like every hill, if you keep plugging along - youll get there eventually - and youve the satisfaction of knowing that after youve done a hors categorie climb nothing else will intimidate you again. Best of all: theres a great restaurant at the summit, and you get to swoop down the mountain afterward.

My personal climb rating: 5 stars