Mtb itinerari Pradleves ING

PRADLEVES – COLLE DEL GERBIDO – COLLE TRAVERSERA

km 33
Route: mixed (asphalt and dirt)
Gradients: 1.200 m
Difficulty level: difficult

We start from Pradleves immediately uphill from the church, up the right side in the direction of Borgata Teliè and the small Sanctuary of Madonna degli Angeli (1.132 m) from here you continue on a ups and downs in the woods until you meet the carriageable of the Gerbido Valley (1.090 m).
You come back on asphalt with a regular climb until Borgata Gerbido, here on the right you take the steep grassy ramp marked by red and white markings that passes between the houses and that shortly after it becomes harder to do with the mountain bike and force us to do sections on foot.

At the next fork instead to continue to climb you keep to the right pedalling along the hillside until you reach Colle del Gerbido (1.326 m), go down keeping the right on a path where you meet some light poles, about 300 meters after the Colle you should be careful to take a detour not much visible on the right, climb on foot for a few yards into the woods, then the road becomes almost flat, you go round Monte Lombernardo and descend towards Colletto Cime on a larger forest track avoiding all the smaller branches, once you reach the Colle at kilometer 11.5 (1.110 m) to advance in the vegetation, turn right across three villages, ignoring a deviation uphill to the right for to meet the asphalt near a votive pillar at km 14.5.

Turn right up the Vallone di Piossasco, it exceeds the Borgata Fatiga and keeping the left for all forks that you meet until the last houses of Biut where ends the dirt road, to cross the grassy bend to the right you keep the left side walking on foot the ramp and after a zigzag through the woods you get to km 19 km to the Colle Traversera (1.288 m) and then you face the hillside that leads to the Passo di Piatta, from here you follow the white-red markings on a hard climb that comes near to a repeater at 20.5 km (1.265 m).
Always following the white-red marks you get to the Village of Piatta Sottana where you descend on the asphalt road for about 800 meters, leaving the road near a notice board proceeding on a level road to the right without regard the first descent on the right, the dirt road again after 4 turns.

Get to Borgata Fontanette and start to rise again avoiding the hairpin bend that turn right, crossing Borgata Cortese Superiore (831 m) at km 24.
After 2 hard switchbacks takes a long cross in the pines, then take on the right a single-track at kilometer 24.8, you reach a forest track, where keeping to the right you find the asphalt near to Cortese Inferiore, turning left and go up to Levata and Pradleves.