Vallter 2000, a not-so-known climb in the Pyrenees

Vallter 2000 is one of the gems of the spanish Pyrenees.

Reaching 2114 mts height, the total length of the climb is 11,2 km from Setcases with 7% average gradient and some full kilometers at 10%. Steep, very steep!

This climb has just one side, then when included in a race it has to be stage ending. This has been the case in Volta a Catalunya years 1986 (winner Juan Fernández), 1992 (winner Tony Rominger, ahead of A.Martin and a certain Indurain…), 2013 (Nairo Quintana) and 2014 (winner T. Van Garderen)

Here you can see the Strava segment for this climb. There is a certain Romain Bardet as KOM… A real climber, no doubt.