Crossing the pyrenees
 

Hi,

Family and work commitments seem to constantly thwart all my RTW travel plans so i've come up with a cunning plan to do it in 1 or 2 month segments interspersed with work and family devotion..:-) Part 1 of this plan consists of moving somewhere where i can access Africa and Europe quickly so ...........

.....I am planning to move my family to southern spain In the next few months, I will be riding my 640 adventure down there at some point over the next 6 months, And would like to go via Andorra, When do the mountians become unpassable by bike and when would they be passable again?

If you mean: when can you not cross the mountains to get to Spain? The answer is: never. The two coast roads are always open, as is the tunnel under the Col de Somport. Barring extremes of weather, of course.

If you mean: when can you cruise the high mountain passes? I don't really know... As in the alps it depends on the altitude and location. The French side is generally wetter, so I guess that more roads are closed by snow for longer. But I suppose that doesn't help you, either...

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Salut from Southern France, the bikers' paradise,

Peter.

the pass into Andorra is cleared whenever it snows cos otherwise the skiers wouldn't get in! I've been over Pas de la Case in a mid-winter blizzard on a KLR650. fun, but not difficult if you have reasonable tyres.