I mentioned in my article on watching the Etape du Tour how I could probably stand at the finish line all day long, marveling in the variety of people (and their emotions) crossing the line. I am sure I could do the same thing on Ventoux on a busy day. The following 5 photos were taken withing a minute and a half of each other. This is what you get on this mountain.
The cotton-shirt bike walker
The bare-headed hot pants look
Just two old dudes
The nearly naked
The MTBer (more and more of these this year…it IS a mountain, I suppose)
And something new for 2015. The town of Bédoin has spruced up this abandoned hut, next to the fountain above Chalet Reynard, and turned it into a little mountain flower expo of sorts.
Which will now give me a cool photo op if I can ever get the timing right.
Finally, I think today was the craziest I’ve ever seen the top of Ol’ Baldy, and that’s saying something. You basically had to take a number to get yourself in front of the ‘1911 meters’ sign.
The Vicious Cycle 
easy does it sonny boy on the ‘old dudes’ caption….
They’re probably only a few years older than me. I should be careful what I say.
Old Dudes???? Look like callow youths to me!
I guess it’s all relative….
You’ll have to stop giving it all this publicity.
Yikes.
All you needed was a Belgian bus and a movie crew. I love the semi-circus and cafe atmosphere that is the top of so many climbs there.
Nearly naked dude… there ought to be a law… Of course, this probably the wrong forum to suggest that.
Chuckle.