Monti Motti

Unexpectedly cyclable route.

Start in Cugnasco and ride along the small paved road with several switchbacks and a steady gradient to the Motti Mountains. The last 2 km are practically flat. At the cave (refreshment point) you turn right and follow the paved road almost to the end. From here you take a path to the left, which at first glance seems too steep to climb, but if you have good legs you can pedal most of the way, apart from a few short ramps.

Thus you quickly reach below the abandoned Foppiana alpine hut, and from there begins the trail that takes us to the Gola Secca mountains: smooth but not obvious; when we rode it, it was very clean; in autumn there may be leaves.

Further on the trail becomes more challenging, with some uphill ramps and some exposed areas that require attention. You arrive at the Gana Mountains, a very scenic spot from which you ride first a few meters on a paved road, then on a dirt road and finally on another trail, very steep but well rideable in the saddle, to Curogna. You come to a dirt road, follow it to the left and take the continuation of the previous trail, also of the same type but with two short passages on hard rock (most people tackle them on foot).

At Ronchi di Natel you return to the road taken uphill, take another shortcut and follow it back to the starting point.