Mountain bike trails

Fantastic panorama, a treat for riding technique fans, more than 1,000m in altitude difference, varied descent and really good stops for refreshment and all that with hardly having to climb a metre in altitude! The Alpe di Siusi aerial cableway makes this possible. It takes over the bulk of the altitude difference for this tour. This makes the tour via the Marinzen hut perfectly suitable for less physically fit bikers or for a quick half-day excursion.

At the valley station of the Alpe di Siusi cable car you can push your bike easily into the spacious cabins of the aerial cableway that came into service in 2005. A short time later you get out at Compaccio, the highest point of the tour. Now it is almost only downhill! A short distance below Compaccio you turn onto a hiking trail at Gast­haus Zorzi in the direction of the car park at Spitzbühl. After Jaggl Hut this hiking trail becomes a fun trail that disgorges the now wide-awake biker onto the car park of the chair lift at Spitzbühel.

Now you follow the Alpe di Siusi road downhill for a few metres before the route runs into the gravel road that runs parallel on the right in the direction of Gstatsch. At waymarker 13 you have to decide. The following section of trail is a pleasure for riding technique fans. Bikers who are not so strong on riding technique should take the Alpe di Siusi road and roll down the three hairpin bends as far as Gstatsch.

At the Gasthaus Gstatsch the varied mountain trail to the Marinzen hut begins. After a short section of woodland you come to a mountain pasture. You should definitely stop here and look around. The view of the Sciliar/Schlern  with its characteristic Santner Peak is impressive.

After a lot of uphill and downhill you will reach the stunningly located Marinzen hut . It is unlikely that you will be on your own very often here. An old chair lift brings day-trippers up from Castelrotto. The beautiful mountain pastures with horses, goats and an idyllic small lake is a popular destination for excursions. You can have a fantastic rest on the sun terrace with its view of the Sciliar/Schlern.

Alternatively a kilometre further on you can stop for a bite in the much quieter Schafstall, a mountain hut in a remote location in rather shady woodland. From there a steep gravel road leads downhill Wasserebene. Finally, with a stunning view of Castelrotto you cruise along on a small tarmac road to the control point at San Valentino and back to Siusi to the valley station of the Alpe di Siusi aerial cableway.

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