The road runs out at Setcases, about 1,260 m up the Ter valley, and everything above the village is a single dead end to the ski station car park at roughly 2,145 m. The first kilometres are honest but manageable; from around kilometre three to kilometre eight it turns mean, with over 25 ramps steeper than 10% and pitches into the 14–15% range. A short easing near kilometre eight is the only real breather, and then five switchbacks stack up a near-vertical slate wall to gain some 300 m. The last eleven hairpins are painted with the names of the sport's big races, the Giro's bend in pink, the Tour's in yellow, the rest red, and the final one before the finish given to the Volta a Catalunya. Above the treeline it is limestone crag, grass and, in summer, brown longhorn cattle grazing the high pasture with their bells audible from the road; the French border is only a couple of kilometres away, and the whole upper valley sits inside the Parc Natural de les Capçaleres del Ter i el Freser. The top is the station itself, six car parks and lift buildings, where between 20 July and 15 September the resort runs a summer information desk and posts riders' Strava times.