Millau is calling at the end of March 2016 for myself and a chum. The womenfolk are flying down to meet us there for a few days so this looks like a great thread from Monseur Le Moto, as usual.
Merci bien mon petit croissant.
Tarn gorge is cracking if going to Milau. Good area in general.
As to snow, we had snow in 2014 over the St Bernard pass coming from (hot) Italy to (cold and wet) Bourge st Maurice in France. That was in July!
General rule of thump for high passes is June for them to be open. May some still closed.
Has anyone done this ride route... thinking of doing it end of july with the wife over 10 days?
I have now looked at Ride's suggested return route in full.
It's fine. You could make some changes but they would be near enough cosmetic, driven more by where anyone might want to stay as much as anything else.
My alternatives in green.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14126843/Ride magazine RN & Gorges ride out.GPX.zip
This Dropbox file is also not found :
Aha, that's because I changed my Dropbox account since the post was first created. It happens.
Here's a fresh link to the route:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/25nqc0dwb... magazine RN & Gorges ride out.GPX 2.GPX?dl=0
I have now updated the link in post 7, too.