Cima Comer, Eremo di San Valentino

This is one of my favorite rides on the #garda! We park on a clearing in the road we continue on asphalt on comfortable inclines to the locality Sasso. Protectors on we descend a nice S2 trail and then join the road from Gargnano to Muslone, from Gargnano we take a nice trail (easy S1) that skirts the lake initially downhill then with several raises to the finish.

When you get to Piovere (last water point) you continue on asphalt with challenging inclines on little-to-no paved road. At an altitude of about 1000 the road becomes a path with 4 short deadly steeps. We continue always on trail and after about 70 meters on the shoulder we finally reach the top. Here there is a spectacular 360° panorama.

For the descent we tell about a variant that should not be too extreme and descends from the ridge but in this track we continue from the normal variant, We retrace the section made on the shoulder (70 meters of S4, the most technical of the descent) and then towards the hermitage of St. Valentine by a very technical and rocky path S3 medium (pay particular attention to a short section near the river quite exposed off the trail) Arrived at the junction for the hermitage of St. Valentine, you can visit it (you reach it on foot).

Continue on a less technical but still very physical mule track to Sasso, water point. Last nice S2 descent with some passages on the final S3+ and after a short ascent we are at the car.

Trail style: AM

Personal rating: views 9/10; Descents 9/10

MTB: yes

EMTB: yes

Duration about 5h by mtb

Portage: 70m (avoidable by leaving bikes behind)

Difficulty ascent: very challenging in places

Difficulty descent: S3

Exposed: Short section on trail however very wide

Drainage: ND