We are in Punto di Legno, a village at the bottom of Passo di Gavia, a must-do side-trip! We load the bikes, Stefan buys sun-protection for 18 Euros, oil the chains (we oiled ourselves with pizzoccheri and wine the evening before), and off we go. The Gavia gives us also a lesson: zig-zag this beast. For sure we do not use the tunnel but the old road on the outer side and immediatly get the next lesson: there is a good reason why they built the tunnel. We climb the remains of an avalanche and must enter the tunnel from the side.
On top they serve spaghetti pomodoro for us two veggies, we dress our decent descend kits and let our brakes scream bombing down. We find a room in Edolo, on local TV we see Stefan and remember the camera-guy on the roadside …
Annotation: following an easy lifestyle there is only one track for our remaining Giro days documented by Igor Stravansky, find it at the last stage.
