"Dr Einer" is what insiders call the mountain bike route from Maighelstal in Graubünden over the pass of the same name down to Andermatt. The reason: this tour is number one in the Swiss mountain bike route network. The route is equally popular with hikers and mountain bikers, which is surprising, as the difficulty of the single trail in particular is far beyond the ability of the average biker.

The rough and bumpy trail is also due to the precipitation and the fact that it has not been maintained for some time. The aim of the trail camps, organized by Disentis Sedrun Tourism, was to make it a little smoother again and provide the water with sufficient drainage.

Without German workers, Switzerland would have been at a loss in this case too. Well over half of the trail camp participants came from the neighboring country to the north. The 24 trail camp participants worked in two teams. One took on the Grisons side of the Maighel Pass, the other the Uri section. From the top of the pass, they worked their way down the popular trail to the huts where they spent the night - the team from Graubünden in the Maighelshütte, the crew from Uri in the Vermigelhütte.

Those who feared that the single trail, notorious for its tricky steps and blocked hairpin bends, had been transformed into a flow trail can rest assured. The crews broke the roughest edges of the trail, but by no means pulled out the teeth. This was not the aim of the camp, nor would it have been possible in three days of pure manual work. 

Wouldn't that be a reason to take the Einer under the studs once again.

Maighelspass in the Ride Tour Database