The road out of Amer narrows almost at once and hits its steepest pitch inside the first few hundred metres, so the opening decides how the rest of the day goes: 8.3 km averaging about 7.3%, with ramps near 11% and a steepest kilometre close to 10%, and it does not level off once. The surface is smooth asphalt all the way up, the woods are chestnut, oak and holm oak, and the valley keeps opening behind you into a long view back over Amer. Around five kilometres up, the Font de la Teula sits on the left of the road if you need water. The top at roughly 815 m is the hamlet of Sant Martí Sacalm: a church, a handful of houses and the Susqueda town hall on a broad upland plain, with the cliff of El Far and its sanctuary standing over the far side and the Pyrenees behind it on a clear day. There is a bar up there, a basic one, and riders report finding it shut.