Goldsee Trail at the Stelvio Pass

For ambitious Alpine bikers, there are some tours that you absolutely have to do once in your life - and this tour is definitely one of them. In Bike Magazine 4/06, the tour (with a similar course and ascent over the Umbrail Pass) was published as the first of the Top 6 Panorama Tours. The tour can only be done in one day by well-trained bikers. If you don't like it quite so tough, there is also an overnight option at Gasthof Tibet or Rifugio Garibaldi on the Stilfser Joch. The busy Stilfser Joch pass road is not exactly the sole blissful mountain bike route, but it is still a beautiful ascent if you tackle it on days or at times when motorised traffic is not at its peak. Of course, you can also be driven up by car and concentrate on the descent if you are organised in a team. Alternatively, the ascent via Glurns - St. Maria im Münstertal and the Umbrail Pass is a good choice, a little further, but also a little less traffic. The moment you leave the asphalt road and the hustle and