Larici secolari: la presa in giro trentina

This route is listed on the Val di Sole website as an official MTB tour with trail descent. Since we are in Trentino and all trails "narrower than a MTB put sideways" are forbidden by law, you know what to expect for the descent: a mule track passed off as a "technical and long single track."

You start from the parking lot of the Daolasa cable car, the Black Snake one for short. You follow the bike path until you cross State Road 42 and ascend toward Termenàgo-Ortisé-Menàs on a little-used asphalt road that passes the villages of Termenàgo, Ortisé, arriving at Menas (1517 meters) with a constant gradient.

Once past the village, take at a fork the dirt road to the right that first on the flat then uphill reaches the Malga del Monte Bassa. There I saw at least four nice aggressive dogs, fortunately all chained up. I dare not imagine at night when they are free to defend the flocks and cows.... One more stretch on a dirt road to reach the beginning of the path of the ancient larches, where initially you have to push the bike and then begins a nice traverse that passes these magnificent trees.

Thus begins the descent, the ugliest part of the tour: it is a mule track full of stones driven into the ground, very steep, with no difficulty whatsoever except for your brakes that will scream for mercy until you reach Mestriago, exactly on the opposite side of the river from where we started. We eat up all the elevation gain in no time and the fun is zero. You have been warned. If you have an ebike do the mule track uphill, at least you risk having fun.

Note that on the opposite side they have no problem giving permits to create an ecomoster in the name of snow that is not there.