Testa Grigia

Itinerary for Ciclodisagiati IncuRabili: the climb from Gressoney la Trinitè is totally on the shoulder...but what an environment and what a descent !

I chose to go up in the afternoon and sleep at the Lateltin bivouac to enjoy sunset and sunrise and to take it "easy."

I started from Trinitè because I was with the kids on foot but it would be preferable to ride from Saint Jean to avoid having to retrieve the 'car on the way back. It is approx. 250 D+ more.

Start from Trinitè and if you park outside the village you can pedal to the 'beginning of the trail, in fact you can even do the first 30 mt. of it !

Then bike on your shoulders and follow the signs for trail 10 which will then become 10 C. The slope gradient is always important, at one point you also have to do a section equipped with metal cable that with the bulk of the bike is not very easy (ocio), I recommend Hook-a-bike or similar.

After a less steep section, where there are the remains of the basement of the former Cozzi bivouac, the trail ramps up again into an ocean of stones.

Eventually you come out on the ridge between Pinter Peak and Testa Grigia: in 10 minutes you will reach the bivouac, if you instead do it in the day in approx. half an hour or so you will be at the top.

You can take your bike until just below a passage with chain, the summit is just above and the ledge and subsequent ferratina that leads to the summit are not cyclable unless you are a Martian. TOP views of the entire M.te Rosa group and Matterhorn.

The descent begins with a technical section until you reach the col then easier up the entire large plateau below the bivouac. Finished the little steep section the music changes dramatically: the next 300 D- are really tough. Here the cyclability definitely drops depending on ability and especially the desire to risk your feathers !

Some phenomena might even make it all or almost all the way.

Toward the pass things get easier and we can take off the diaper.

We take to Gressoney and past the first little piece below the pass, quite technical but without danger, the trail becomes more relaxing until the first alpine pastures.

Then it goes back to being the typical alpine trail, easier sections alternate with others slower and more driving, but still all doable.

We pass the pastures of Montil and arrive at Alpenzù Grande.

The last 350 D- will be quite a challenge...after all, beer must be earned !

From the summit to Gressoney S. Jean will be 1900 D- of pure adrenaline mixed with fatigue.

Have fun !

P.s. to retrieve the car in Trinitè you can pedal since you will have done it little !

Here the video of the climb:

..and here the one of the descent: