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TOUR INFO GETTING THERE START CHARACTERISTICS VARIATIONS HISTORY ROADBOOK ALTITUDE PHOTO

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TOUR INFO GETTING THERE START CHARACTERISTICS VARIATIONS HISTORY ROADBOOK ALTITUDE PHOTOALTITUDE PHOTO

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ALPE DI SIUSI HUT TOUR

CHARACTERISTICS

The name says it all: the Seiser Alm/Alpe di Siusi, Europe’s largest high pas-tureland, off ers an extensive tour with a magnifi cent panorama of the Dolomites. While this can be admired from the sadd-le, it is even more enjoyable from one of the many huts along the way, whose diff ering characters entice hungry and thirsty cyclists to stop awhile. The tour is physically demanding but it is techni-cally not especially hard and therefore presents no problems for fi t bikers.From Wolkenstein/Selva you initially

take the quiet and beautiful hiking trail along the banks of the Grödner Bach/Rio Gardena to St. Christina/Saint Cristina, where a steep climb of 2 km and 240m of altitude takes you up to Monte Pana, an ideal opportunity to warm up befo-re the coming 20 km, which are mostly uphill.At the bottom of the Monte Pana lift, take a gravel road that fi rst climbs then descends into the Jender Valley, the ent-rance point to the Seiser Alm/Alpe di Si-usi. The tour does not proceed along the

RIDING TIME Riding time without pauses

Riding time at 10 km/h 4 hrs 25 min






TOUR INFO % of distance

Total distance 44,24 km 100%

Height variation uphill 1620 m

Height variation downhill 1620 m

Maximum altitude 2080 m

Tarmac 0,09 km 0,2%

Tarmac cycle path 8,44 km 19,1%

Gravel 30,73 km 69,5%

Hiking trail 4,83 km 10,9%

Single track 0,13 km 0,3%

Carrying / pushing 0,00 km 0,0%

Cable car / transfer 0,00 km 0,0%

PHYSICAL CONDITIONOverall condition 4,0

Total height variation 4,0

Total distance 4,0

Maximum altitude 4,0

RIDING TECHNIQUEOverall riding technique 3,0

Surface 2,9

Average climb gradient 3,0

Average descent gradient 3,0

EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCEPanorama 5,0

Riding fun 3,0

TOUR EVALUATIONOverall diffi culty 3,5

Climb diffi culty 3,6

Descent diffi culty 3,2

GETTING THERE AND STARTING POINT Getting there: Starting point:A22 motorway: coming from the north, take exit Innsbruck-Brennero; coming from the south, take exit Verona-Bolzano.We recommend you exit the A22 at Klausen/Chiusa – Grödner Tal/Val Gardena: after 20 minutes on a well-signposted Alpine road you reach St. Ulrich/Ortisei then, after a few km, St. Christina/Santa Cristina and Wolken-stein/Selva.

The tourism association is located on the left about 500 m after you enter the village of Wolkenstein.Parking is available at the the beginning of the village centre of Wolkenstein. Turn left before Nives Platz and then immediately left again into the Nives car park.The tour begins at the tourism association Wolkenstein.

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ALPE DI SIUSI HUT TOUR

direct route to Saltria, but takes a detour around the Wolfsbühel, a rise to the west of the Jender Valley. The beautiful pastu-reland represents the Seiser Alm/Alpe di Siusi at its fi nest.The Sanon Hut is the fi rst opportunity for refreshments, with the excellent food a fi tting reward for the short extension to the tour (250m to the right at waymarker 42). The next few kilometres off er four more huts – a diffi cult choice indeed!After a short stretch on the road towards

VARIATIONS1. More huts: a longer and more challen-ging tour is possible by heading straight for Compatsch/Compaccio at waymar-ker 46 instead of going sharp left to the Hotel Steger Dellai. Pass the Zorzi Hotel and the Jaggl Schwaige Hut to the Spitz-bühel car park, then up to Spitzbühel and via the Laurin Hut to the Alpenhotel Panorama where you rejoin the tour de-scribed above at waymarker 50.

2. Via the Dialer Church to the Zallin-ger Hut: a further climb is possible if, instead of taking a sharp left after the Mahlknecht Hut at waymarker 57, you go straight uphill to the Dialer Church where you bear left onto the high-level route and, after 1.5 km, take a sharp left in the direction of Saltria. After 1.4 km you rejoin the climb up to the Zallinger at waymarker 60.

3. More trails: do not bear right at the Almrosen Hut but rather bear left onto hiking trail 12 to Saltria, then take trail 12A for Tirler. You rejoin the tour descri-bed above at waymarker 58.

Compatsch/Compaccio, you turn off onto a wonderful high-level route with an idyllic view of the Schlern/Sciliar, allowing you to reach the Alpenhotel Panorama (380m from waymarker 50). Although a hotel should not, strictly speaking, form part of a “hut tour”, the short detour is a must as the hotel off ers a 360° view not just of the nearby sum-mits such as the Langkofel/Sassolungo, Plattkofel/Sassopiatto, Marmolada, Sel-la Group, Sas Rigais, the Geisler/Odle

peaks, Rosszähne/Denti di Terra Rossa and Schlern/Scili-ar with the Santner Spire, but on a clear day you can the Zillertal and Stubaier Alps or even the Ortler/Ortles!The climb continues, past the traditional Almrosen Hut and up to the highest point of the tour just before the Mahl-knecht Hut. You must decide which of the many huts you will visit: not for nothing is this called the “Hut Tour”.A fast descent of some 300m towards Tirler is followed by a climb on a gravel road in the direction of the Zallinger Hut, a real gem: the view from its terrace to the south-east reveals the “fl at” face of the Plattkofel/Sassopiatto, lit by the afternoon sun, while to the south-west is the panora-

ma of the Plattkofel/Sassopiatto Hut, Pa-latsch/Palacia, the Mahlknecht Hut and the Rosszähne/Denti di Terra Rossa.The next 12 kilometres are largely down-hill in full view of the Plattkofel/Sasso-piatto and Langkofel/Sassolungo until, tired but happy, you return to your star-ting point in Wolkenstein/Selva.

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