Route de l'Esperou

Route de l'Esperou is a long, mostly runnable climb above Arphy in Occitanie. Its steepest 500 metres run at 22.8% and come almost at once, before your legs have settled. Its 2.4 TEP puts it in the easier half of the catalogue. Expect 45 to 76 minutes. The nearest named summit, Serre de Roulon at 875 m, is 592 m away. It faces south and gets hot in summer, so an early start helps.