With 10 days to go, each updated rumour coming out of France suggests a route, that, if anything, is worse than last years!
The Jura provides this year's Vosges stage. Interesting, but ultimately irrelevant.
Morzine Avoriaz seems to have disappeared, in favour of the now, more familiar Morzine finish.
So, scratch one classic MTF from the Alpes.
That leaves Landis's Waterloo as, once again, the climb of choice, even though it's an ugly little mo fo, with hardly a ramp in sight.
Gap over the Izoard, probably. 2003 re-visited?
Trois Domaines is stiff, but short.
The Luchon stage has the leftover climbs.
A Pau finish will neutralise the "homage to 1910" stage, for the contenders.
That leaves the ITT up the Tourmalet to sort it all out.
The rest is flat or trialing.
It's a grim prospect, IMO.