Monte Romano

Monte Romano, now also known as Monte Bikersorani, as it "should" be the first time a mtb descends from the summit. Starting behind Terracina on asphalt to Campo Soriano on a climb that is never hard, past the beautiful cathedral, a dirt road with an initial pedalable part, and a not-so-long push section, we arrive up at Case Murate. A not-too-difficult cart track to below Mount Romano from where, with an intense push section and short pedalable segments on stony trails, we reach the summit. The view takes in the entire Agro Pontino and the beautiful coastline. The descent, for a short part on the way up, in the very first meters must be done slowly because of the very stony sentierio, where only a few apt lines allow to ride it. A hilarious trail begins with steeps on dirt and stony segments on large slabs that are quite challenging.

Once on grassy areas the trail turns sharply left, marked white red, with a traverse and small climbs takes us to the 'entrance of the Ripa di Cascano valley. Don't trust the first slightly flowing part because a little further down the trail becomes bad: challenging passages on fixed rock, consecutive steep steps, series of endless hairpin bends graded at times with large drops and we are back at Campo Soriano.

A short asphalt ascent and we are about to descend the more famous Three Wells Trail, although shorter than the previous one always very challenging with beautiful passages and breathtaking views of the coast below. The trail ends on a short dirt road and after a few meters we are back at the starting point.

Do not be fooled by the low elevation of the mountain (we always start at sea level) because the ride is challenging and for experts, especially the first descent, which makes the second one look easy.