After the heavy snowfall in mid-April, the effects on the bike infrastructure in Valais are very different. While the Lower Valais is already off to a good start to the season, clean-up work is still ongoing in other regions. Shuttle providers such as Trail Taxi are providing valuable support in assessing the damage and are already making safe bike tours possible again in some areas.

Here is an overview of the newly recorded ride tours in March and April 2025. 41 researched routes have been added. The focus was on Lake Garda, the Ligurian coast around Genoa and Valais

In April 2011, a forest fire destroyed 110 hectares of protective forest above the Valais municipality of Visp. One of the most beautiful single trails down into the valley was also covered in ash and closed. The trail was rebuilt and reopened in mid-June 2024 under the name "Phoenix from the Ashes". Ride took the resurrected trail under its wheels and shows the video report on its construction.

When it comes to mountain biking, Valais isn't just going all out in racing. From summer 2024, the mountain railroads of the Aletsch Arena, Belalp, Bellwald, the Hohsaas mountain railroads and the Grächen tourist company will be jointly offering a new bike ticket. The Upper Valais BikePass is available as a season ticket at four age-dependent rates and is valid during the respective summer opening times of the participating destinations.

13 years ago, a major forest fire raged in Visp in Valais. One of the most beautiful single trails in the area was closed as a result. On the descent from Visperterminen to Visp, the once burnt section now rises like a phoenix from the ashes. The renovated and partially rebuilt trail rides for three kilometers through an impressive landscape with dead trees and great views. It will be completed in summer 2024 and is set to significantly upgrade the previous trail.

The Swiss Enduro Series ended its exciting 2023 season with an adrenaline-charged climax in the canton of Valais, in the enchanting Lötschental. With its steep and rough stages, this round proved to be the ultimate test of concentration and skill for mountain bikers from Switzerland and the surrounding countries. Franca Rudolf and Tim Bratschi mastered this test best of all.

After around five months of construction, the Lötschental has one more trail: the 1.6-kilometre-long Loichitrail on the Lauchernalp. Five months sounds like a quick time, but the preparatory work for this flow trail was much longer.

At 4,153 meters above sea level, the Bishorn is probably one of the highest Alpine peaks ever conquered on a mountain bike. David Nüesch and Sandro Schmid were recently on the four-thousand-meter peak in the Valais Alps and captured their summit attempt on video with impressive images. Really worth seeing.

In exactly three years, Valais will host the 2025 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, bringing together seven mountain bike disciplines for the first time in the history of the UCI. On Tuesday morning, the "CM MTB Valais 2025" association presented the project in the company of the host destinations and world-class athletes Jolanda Neff and Camille Balanche. A fresco of the event logo was inaugurated in front of the town hall in Sion.

Because Bellwald is building a new chairlift, the bike park will remain closed for the entire 2022 season. However, the bike school will continue to offer lessons. The bike park will open in 2023 with three new trails.

At the first Swiss Enduro Championships on the occasion of the Swiss Enduro Series in Lötschental, Lisa Baumann surprises the favorites and takes the gold medal ahead of Anita Gehrig and Sidonie Jolidon. In the men's race, Gusti Wildhaber had to surrender his lead to Patrick Lüthi on the last stage. The bronze medal goes to Stefan Peter.

In Belalp, the almost six-kilometre Häxu Trail, which rides to Blatten, has been opened. The descent consists of new sections and existing trails that have been optimized as part of the maintenance work. The IBR planning office and the newly founded trail construction company "vast trails GmbH" were involved in the implementation of the blue-red trail in collaboration with Forst Massa.

At last! Swiss Cycling announces the first Swiss Enduro Championships in the Lötschental. And it's high time, because since the introduction of the Enduro World Series eight years ago, national championships have been held in almost every country. Only in Switzerland has it been difficult. The premiere will take place on October 9/10 in Wiler, on the occasion of the Swiss Enduro Series.

The newly founded "Swiss Enduro Series powered by Subaru" announces the second race of the 2021 season. After the first edition in Lenzerheide, the race series will travel to the Lötschental on October 9-10, where many efforts have been made in recent years and are currently being made to create an accurate mountain bike infrastructure. The registration portal for the race in Lötschental will open at the beginning of June.

After the Nagens Trail in Laax, the company Velosolutions is building the second bike trail in Valais, using only electrically powered construction machinery. The almost three-kilometre-long, flowing but natural descent from Wurzenbord to Bettmeralp is set to open at the end of August 2021.

The weekend is approaching and with it perhaps the first visit to Valais? With the increasing breeze, it will be rather chilly. In Valais, on the other hand, it will remain pleasant and at its most stable, with temperatures of up to 16 degrees on the valley floor. The Jeizinen trails above Gampel are top class and the entire region offers some alternative options.

The Bellwald bike park is being expanded as part of Vision 2024. The first stage of expansion is a four-kilometre flow trail from the Fleschen middle station with a planned opening in June 2021. In 2022, bike park operations will be suspended due to the construction of the new chairlift, but another trail will be built in the meantime. The expansion is set to continue at this pace until the end of 2024.

In October, high alpine tours in the Alps are usually no longer possible. This is the time to reminisce about the beautiful summer with films. For example, the Barrhorn. SRF has now put the film back online after the controversy surrounding the sequences on the Üetliberg.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has entrusted Valais with the organization of the combined UCI Mountain Bike World Championships 2025, which will take place in September 2025. For the first time in the history of the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, all seven mountain bike disciplines will be held in a single region.

Valais has submitted a bid to the UCI for the organization of the 2025 Mountain Bike World Championships. If the bid is successful, Crans-Montana, the Dents du Midi region, Grächen, Leukerbad, Verbier and Val d'Anniviers, Monthey and Zermatt have been confirmed as the venues. The first combined mountain bike world championships will be awarded in September.

Rushing downhill by mountain bike for 10,000 meters in one day and never on the same trail - that's what the Bahnentour Davos stands for. Remo Thommen and Damian Ineichen were convinced that this is also possible in Valais. Their 100-kilometre trail journey took them from the Illhorn to Zermatt, not quite efficiently, but on the best trails. Did they still manage the 10'000?

Ride has prepared the route of the 2019 Marathon World Championships in Grächen in its tour database. Conclusion: The route of the 2019 Marathon World Championships is possibly the most attractive race course the sport of marathoning has ever seen. The route can now be downloaded from the Ride tour database.

The Breithorn Trail in the Lötschental was opened last weekend. The first part of the comprehensive trail development project was built, adapted and modernized by Marti apprentices under the supervision of Trailworks as part of the "martifuture camp". Now there is the first camera ride on it and the construction result of this "everyman trail" is impressive.

The Lötschental is focusing on mountain biking and opened its first mountain bike trail on June 22, 2019. The trail was renovated and modernized on the basis of existing hiking trails. However, the Breithorn Trail, which is almost ten kilometers long and easily accessible thanks to the mountain railroad, is just one part of a comprehensive expansion project.

The first Singletrail Books were launched a year ago - a total of five books for the canton of Graubünden. Now three more volumes are being added for Valais and the Aosta Valley. They will be launched next weekend at the Bike Days in Solothurn.

The "Stoneman" has come to Valais this summer. Because what works in the Dolomites and the Ore Mountains also works in the Aletsch region. The concept is simple: whoever masters the 127-kilometre and 4700-metre elevation gain in one day receives the golden Stoneman award. For two days it is silver, for three days bronze. However, the focus is not primarily on performance but on the nature and trail experience.