This has been promoted as one of the best and longest descents in an unpopulated valley – the Welschtobel mountainbike route. For a long time I’ve been trying to ride it, and now in early October 2023 was finally able to do it – and bring along Farkas.

We left the Davos hotel by car and stopped at a trailhead in Alvaneu, where we’d pick up the car tomorrow if all went well. From this side, the ascent is a long service road plus a steep scramble up to Furcletta, where we’d meet other bikers coming over from the Lenzerheide side.

Then a wonderful flow trail all the way back to Arosa. But here’s the catch: Given we felt still fit and recharged the batteries (literally!) at a restaurant, we rode from Arosa all the way back to Davos via Strelapass.