Grosina-Trail
Description
If you want to reach the great high-altitude trail and the excellent singletrail descent to Grosio, you first have to get to the furthest tip of Val Grosina. To do this, climb up from Grosotto to the San Sebastiano chapel and from there continue in the direction of Val Grosina Occidentale (western Val Grosina). As soon as you reach the entrance to the valley, you change sides and head into the main valley of Val Grosina. Continue uphill on a road, pass the reservoir and finally reach the village of Eita at the far end of Val Grosina. However, the highest point has not yet been reached. Instead, you climb up a gravel road on the opposite side of the valley to the Alps around the Baita dei Rossi. The singletrail branches off to the right up to Alp Bergamasco, the culmination point of the tour. You are at almost 2000 meters above sea level, the finish of the descent in Grosotto is 1400 meters below. A first-class singletrail descent now leads in serpentine mode past the village of Menarolo to San Giacomo above Grosio. The trail can easily keep up with the Tornantissima trail on the opposite side of the valley. On an old goods road, you finally roll down to the castle of Grosio and from there on a short stretch on the main road back to the starting point of Grosotto.
Note: At the group of houses at 1480 meters above sea level, there is a descent option by heading left onto a single trail and later with a short counter-climb on a gravel road to Alp Arzuga. A first-class and varied singletrail starts here and rides all the way to the first houses in Grosio.
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Details of the tour
37 km
1695 m
1695 m
596 above sea level
2025 above sea level
Grosotto
Grosotto
1883
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User comments (2)
About the author: Thomas Giger
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We rode the tour today. The shuttle to Fusino at the reservoir was quite pleasant in these temperatures. The ascent via the tarred road to Refugio Eita had a pleasant gradient and was completed in an hour. We had the misfortune that an outdoor mass was being held today and of course x 100 Italians rode up in their tanks.
After that, you have to fight your way up another 300m, with the last 70m only being manageable by pushing.
The trail in the upper part was rather disappointing: although there were a lot of hairpin bends, the whole path was covered in scree and branches and relatively wide. Further down, the hiking trail was more worthy of the name trail and there was a real flow between the countless hairpin bends.
The lower part was a bumpy ride on a Roman-style paved hiking trail up to the castle.
S2-S3, beautiful valley, moderate trail
The high-level trail is an arduous up and down. If you want, you can also take the asphalt road directly to the start of the descent. The descent is a little rough at the top (stones, branches, pine cones) and then it gets better.
The variant described is quite ok. More black than red in places (steep, narrow hairpin bends)
Generally enough vegetation...
The trail itself rides along the old route of a military road