Originally Posted by
rebayona
Sorry I missed this!
Letras challenge was past Sunday. I'll post about it later this week.
La Línea is another mythic destination everyone wants to conquer indeed, but not a great idea due to high and heavy traffic. I drive that route a couple times per year (I'm not living in Bogotá anymore, gotta update my bio) so I have to cross that to visit my family, and I'm always silently shouting each time I see a random cyclist in that route. There is no space for trucks in some curves, I wouldn't dare to do it under traffic and I've never seen it closed for a recreational event for cyclists, so it is a hard pass for me. It is not about how hard it is, it's about how dangerous it is with traffic on that route.
I was forbidden from cycling La Línea last year (heading towards Ibagué). No, nay, never.
I had to hitch a lift from a truck.
On the Ibagué side I did see posters advertising a closed day so that cyclists could attempt it.
Alto de Letras was a bit cold, damp and disappointing at the top