On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:31:50 +0100, Champ squeezed
out the following:

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:46:04 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

Off topic, but it's quiet... I'd like to do this kind of motorbike, sunny day,
dry road with walls of snow either side thing. I'd always imagined, that
after the lifts close down in val d'Isere they run a snow plough over the
top, though as it sometimes snows right through to May/June I guess
it's not really like that. Any ideas on fixed dates for opening the Col
d'Iseran, or ideas where freshly opened high passes might be the first
couple of weeks in may (within 3 hours of Geneva).

I can confirm that it's not open in mid-June:
http://www.champ.org.uk/bikes/images/mugellosnow.jpg

This was on the way back from the Italian GP at Mugello in 2001.

Nice!

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Colin Irvine