The climb was really pretty nice, ad we went a few km past the ski area until the road started turning to gravel. I'm always up for riding off road, but since it was just an out and back, I didn't really see the need to proceed any further. 

After we got back and showered, we decided it was time to go back up the Les Deux Alpes and check in to going paragliding. Yup, we had heard it was only 45 Euros or so, so we took the Gondola up to the resort and had some lunch, then tried to find the paragliding. Turned out that it was actually 70 Euros, and I was also realizing that I am pretty scared of heights, so I was glad when everyone else said that the price was a little to steep. 

SO instead of paragliding, we headed over to the luge carts and did that about 4 times - racing each other and trying to catch one another cruising down the slide. After walking around a bit more, we found the Deval Karts! Holy Crap these were awesome. Basically go karts without motors - like soapbox derby cars, but with big fat tires. We all hopped in the karts and took the Poma lift up the mountain. All you really do with these things is cruise down the open slope, wherever you want. The karts turned for shit, and the grassy slopes were anything but smooth. We bought 6 rides for 10 Euros. There were 5 of us, so the first one down got to take the 6th ride. We lined up at the top of the slope side-by-side. I couldn't stop laughing, thinking how stupid and dangerous these things were. Kevin yelled go, and off he went. We all went. Kevin was far out front, bouncing all over the place, as were the rest of us. The steering wheel barely did anything at all, and the slope was filled with bumps and rocks and divots. I hadn't laughed that hard in a while. I could barely control the kart. I saw Kevin hit a dirt road that crossed the field and watched him pop up into the air. I am amazed that none of us got hurt. Kevin ended up winning, but gave Larry the last ticket to ride. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera this day, hopefully Toby or Gary will send me a picture of the Devil Karts. (The picture of the luge was from our first visit to Les Deux Alpes).

So this was our last day as a group. The next day we were heading to Grenoble, where Gary and I had a hotel for a night, then to Lyon for our flights. Kevin, Toby, and Larry were all driving to Paris to catch their flights. 

The trip is practically over. The only well known Cols in the Alpes that we missed were the Glandon (which ends up at the top of the Croix de Fer - and I hear has a 13% final few km), and the climb to Les Deux Alpes. Both look pretty fun, and someday I'll come back and do those, but I think we hit about as much as we could in the time that we had (without killing ourselves).

Vaujany's ride stats - 62km/38mi

1005m/3300ft of climbing