Wolfendorn – Brenner-Trail
Description
If you look to the east from the Brenner border ridge, you can see the caravans of cars rolling over the Brenner Pass to the south and north - and a decidedly jagged mountain personality: the Wolfendorn (Spina del Lupo). It's hard to believe that you can climb this 2776-metre-high guardian over the Brenner Pass by mountain bike! Thanks to an old military road with hardly any traffic. It starts within sight of the shopping mile at the top of the pass, more precisely at the ancient Wolf inn. From "Al Lupo", a hairpin bend-rich but sometimes quite steep gravel road leads to the Flatschjoch (Passo Vallaccia, 2395 m), also known as the "Brennermäuerl". Ultra-steep, but for strong bikers completely rideable up to about 100 meters in altitude, the path leads north from here, at the end over several narrow serpentines all the way up to the summit. At the summit cross, the views of the Brenner Pass, the Pfitschertal valley and the fat three-thousand-metre peaks of the Zillertal distract you from overly morbid thoughts - because even up here at almost 2,800 meters above sea level, the mountain war was raging. After work comes pleasure! But the descent - initially on the serpentines of the summit structure and then through desolate rocky fields along a ridge to dilapidated war huts - is only enjoyable for hardened downhill riders with plenty of suspension travel and confident riding technique. Normal riders will certainly spend an hour pushing downhill on the Wolfendorn. But consolation: there are only a few really life-threatening sections. In between, you have to carry about 100 Elevation loss downhill through a landslide, after which the remains of a military path, only half a meter wide, demand everything from man and machine once again, before you return to the "Lupo" and the Brenner - now back in the forest - in the S1 terrain.
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Details of the tour
18 km
1400 m
1400 m
1399 above sea level
2734 above sea level
1 day
Gossensass
Gossensass
1870
well suited
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User comments (1)
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Unfortunately, since the restoration of a formerly derelict alpine pasture this year, there have been massive problems with the new (very militantly MTB-hostile) alpine pasture tenants who - unfortunately partly justified - complain about the lasting destruction of the path by bikers in their leased area (increasing path damage due to shredding/shortcuts), and also raise liability issues. Unfortunately, at the end of the tour, the trail rides directly in front of the alpine pasture.
Apart from the fact that when the tenants are on site, you are insulted in the worst possible way (colleagues reported this, plus I experienced it myself), unfortunately the tenants are now deliberately placing some dangerous obstacles along the path, thus further exacerbating the situation.
Unfortunately, this tour, as well as other trails in the region, is prohibited by the municipality of Brenner due to the legal situation: "Off-limits area for mountain bikes. BLR No. 404 of 19.03.2012 -- Art. 2 of the implementing regulation for the landscape plan of the municipality of Brenner: 'in areas of scenic interest, cycling is prohibited in pathless terrain and on paths less than 1.5 m wide... The average width of the path is significantly less than 1.5 m and therefore riding on it is a violation according to Art. 47c of LG No. 9 / 2018. There is a risk of administrative penalties".
Otherwise, the tour description is poorly researched: there was no fighting along the entire Brenner border ridge. All the military roads, cart tracks and mule tracks there belong to the Valle Alpino del Littorio, which Mussolini had built between 1939 and 1942.