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Tunnel du Chambon replacement road

 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi all,

I'm looking to organise a Summer (June/July) trip to Les Deux Alpes for a bit of summer skiing and rock climbing, and need a bit of help from the experts here!

The climbing is around Briancon, but I'm not sure how easy it is to travel between the two following the tunnel collapse. There's a number of pages online stating the replacement road is open, but neither the Michelin website nor Google Maps are offering it as a possible route - both suggesting I travel about three hours the long way round.

Does anyone know for definite what the status of the road is? And if it is open, whether it's a sensible option or too congested to really be workable?

Thanks very much!
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@oc, there is a replacement road and it should be a reasonable option in summer, as long as you avoid Saturday traffic. It might be better to do it as a 2 centre trip though. Skiing first, then off to do the climbing?
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There's a whole thread about it already:

http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=120415
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@altis, thanks, I'd just gone off to find the link. Happy
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@Hells Bells @altis

Thanks! So from the other thread it looks like it's open, but I need to be in a car - i.e. nothing approaching a van - but it won't necessarily be signposted that there's a route there and the police might decide to stop tourists using it...

So sounds basically do-able, as long as I'm patient!

@Hells Bells: I don't mind a 40 mins-ish commute through the mountains each day's from LDA to Briancon, but do you think I'll be looking at more than that with the new road (avoiding Saturday's, as you suggest)? If so I can see two centres might be what I should go for.

Thanks again!
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@oc, I wouldn't have thought the new road would add too much extra time to the journey from what I've heard.
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@Hells Bells thanks! Looks like the trip is on...
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
@oc, L2A-SC is about an hour via the relief road Very Happy
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