Sant'Antoni de Bolada
Description
The initial phase of the tour runs from Grono along the main road into the Calanca Valley. This section already gives you a first impression of how wild and rugged the valley is. Finally, you reach the village of Arvigo on the road with the cable car to Braggio. The cable car is usually unattended: insert two francs, push the bike through the turnstile and press the departure button - and off you go up to Braggio. But that's it for the comfort: the upcoming ascent to Sant'Antoni de Bolada is steep and exposed at times. The bike has to be carried a little over 300 meters in altitude here. The chapel forms the transition into the Misox and is the starting point of a sensational singletrail descent. This leads quickly and variedly to Santa Maria and from there on to Castaneda. The trail remains fast and flowing, but now becomes increasingly rough. At the very end, the trail rumbles again quite a bit, but ends directly in the center of Grono. All in all: a worthwhile tour off the beaten track in Ticino.
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Details of the tour
20 km
1020 m
1500 m
330 above sea level
1684 above sea level
1 day
Grono
Grono
1775
not suitable
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User comments (3)
About the author: Thomas Giger
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The tour would be great. From Grono to the cable car there would even be a post bus with a bike rack.
Unfortunately, a storm has destroyed large parts of the forest and many trees lie across the path. Both on the ascent and on the descent.
I rode the tour at Easter 2022. Locals warned me about the ice. I couldn't quite understand what they meant until I was on the ascent to St. Antonio. All the small streams that crossed the hiking trail had formed huge slabs of ice that covered the entire path. Once you slip, you never slip again. I held the bike in my right hand and with my left hand I held on to the grass and shrubs and with my hard bike shoes it was literally a tightrope walk. Don't do this tour until May.
We rode there today. There is still a lot of snow on the carrying section. We used the bikes as ice axes. Once you slip off there, you never slip off again. There's also a lot of storm wood. I would do it again in 4-6 weeks at the earliest.
The trail is cool again (even if there is some storm wood here and there). Technical in between (nice steps, rear wheel offset etc.). In the lower time, very ( ticino style) stair-heavy.