Some of those rally names bring on a shudder of recognition and past expeditions - the two Elephants, the Dragon and a few others in particular. Every time I get back from a winter rally I say never again, and I never do until the next winter when I get bored. So, the 2019 Alt Elephant, I definitely won't be going, unless I have nothing else on that weekend. Maybe.
There's quite few I saw on the listings that are near me but I didn't know existed. The Hivernale du Vercors for example. That place is bleak in the middle of summer so January must be well up the miserable scale. I was down there - by bike - last January and had more snow than the height of the bike fall in two days. You need a pretty good tent and a big shovel to get through that without the tent collapsing.
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