Col de Burdincurutcheta
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Col de Burdincurutcheta

A pass in three parts: a good warm up on 10 km almost flat; a 1st series of laces with wooded slopes often over 12%; a 2nd series of laces often 8 / 10% in the beech woods with an arrival on a balcony! The Tour has been there, will it come back?

A pass in three parts: a good warm up over 10 km almost flat in the middle of a bucolic

of a bucolic setting of typical Basque farms and meadows; then a 1st series of

then a first series of hairpin bends with wooded slopes often higher than 12%; and after the two middle passes of the climb offering beautiful open panoramas; a second series of hairpin bends often at 8/10% in the beech forest with a balcony finish!



How to get there

From Pau, exit n°7 Salies-de-Béarn, follow the D430 then the D933 past Salies, via Sauveterre-de-Béarn, St Palais and Larceveau. Keep straight on the D933 and 6 kms before St Jean Pied de Port, turn left on the D2933 to reach St Jean le Vieux, the starting point for the climb.