Airolo tour

Departing from the convenient and large parking lot of the cable car that serves the bike-park ( or ski slopes ), you descend toward the village until you take the ascent of the Tremola valley, which is always fascinating; having reached the St. Gotthard pass, you must go to cross the big road, to take the dirt road that skirts the last section of the road covered uphill from Airolo. This is a quasi-mule track that leads to join, via a short push section, the Banchi-weg, a beautiful scenic path, comfortable and never difficult, but with very exposed sections. From this you enter the Bedretto valley on the high road, a dirt road a few km long with views towards Nufenenpass, Gries and various peaks in the area, well known to ski mountaineers/climbers etc., (great environment) you follow it to the entrance of a splendid singletrack that will lead in 600m of elevation gain, between rocky-edged passages (watch out for derailleurs!), some steep and a pine needle forest with a few exposed S3 hairpin bends, to the village of Bedretto. From here we ascend to take the Alpi road that leads us, in still beautiful surroundings, to the village of Pescium where some descents of the bike-park start. Our choice was for Bosco trail variant + Runcasc. The ride was done with e-mtb on 7/10/2023.