Garmil
Description
From Sargans, you initially ride to Wangs and start the long ascent there. Follow the little road that always leads under the mountain railroad up to Maienberg. Eventually you reach the signposted bike route (number 471) and follow it uphill to the ridge. Now leave the official route again and continue up to the lower and upper Vermii-Alp. From here, the bike has to be pushed about 130 meters up to the summit of the Garmil. You will be rewarded with a magnificent view of Sargans and the St. Gallen Rhine Valley - and a crisp descent along the ridge to the lower Vermiialp. Less experienced mountain bikers can avoid this route and follow the ascent route to the Alp. Back on the 471 route, you can descend along this via the Gamidaur-Alp and the Alp Unterprecht back to Mels. The more challenging variant leads via Ebenwald over the Brandwald to the Schattenberg directly on the Seez stream. You then roll along a small road to Hienzi and follow the hiking trail to Mels. Return to Sargans on the Veloland route.
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Details of the tour
32 km
1580 m
1580 m
480 above sea level
1971 above sea level
1 day
Sargans
Sargans
1067
limited
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User comments (1)
About the author: Thomas Giger
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Unfortunately, an over-motivated tourism association has completely flattened the trail from the summit to Fürggli (first 250 vertical meters) and cleared it of every stone and root. As a result, this section of the route is now perfectly feasible for beginners who are on a bike for the first time, but unfortunately also totally boring for any halfway ambitious biker. From Fürrgli to Unter Vermii (200 vertical meters), you are treated to a first-class single trail. The rest of the tour (1000 vertical meters) consists of only a few meters of singletrail. Most of the route is on easy tarred, gravel or forest roads. Conclusion: The view on the tour is world class, the descent unfortunately rather mediocre.