Monte d’Alma Trail-Tour

Monte d'Alma Trail-Tour Toskana

The range of hills south of the seaside resort of Follonica in Tuscany is popular with enduro riders, but the single trails can also be combined into an attractive and extensive trail circuit. With the exception of a few climbs, you will be riding exclusively on trails.

Description

The port town of Puntone di Scarlino serves as the starting point for the tour. You leave it by driving past a housing estate and at the end of it you change to a short trail. Via country lanes and an up and down trail, you reach the road to Monte di Muro. First on asphalt, then after a barrier on gravel, follow the road to a junction and keep left. Soon after a bend to the right, a trail branches off to the left, which you follow, always keeping to the left. You reach another flat trail along the hill, follow this to the right and later downhill, where you reach a road. You pass the village of Scarlino high up on the hill below on a main road, but soon leave it again and cross field, forest and meadow paths to below the village of Gavorrano.

On the access road, you quickly gain height, climb a little higher and leave the asphalt road on a hill to take the gravel road to Monte Calvo. The terrain becomes more open and as the road rises steeply to the summit, you leave it via the singletrail on the left through the meadow. A crisp, partly blocked path leads only slightly downhill to the south and ends at a junction of forest roads. Keep heading in the same direction, climb a little and follow a super trail created by local mountain bikers along the slope. After a series of ups and downs, you reach the 31 trail, which is a traverse with some steep climbs below Monte d'Alma and Monte Stella. On a forest road, you reach the ruins of the Monte di Muro castle, turn right onto the Traverso trail and reach a firebreak with flowing ups and downs. At the top of a hill, the next singletrail on the left leads back towards Puntone. The trail known from the outward journey takes you back to the starting point.

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