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Highlights
- The top of Carosello 3000 provides stunning views. Make sure you take a break at the top and enjoy the Alpine lanscapes.
- The park is all based on the concept of flowlines. These are tracks that are very flowy and fast, with many bumps and corners that will make the descent more interesting if you let go of the brakes – otherwise you will not even feel them. The track we enjoyed the most was the Roller Coaster , an endless section of corners with berms.
Useful info
- When to go: July till early September – check out here the cable car opening days.
- Food and Water: Nothing to worry about – you will ride by multiple resorts and when you get down to the bottom of the valley you have an entire village full of amenities.
- Recommended gears&bike: This is not the typical bike park that requires a downhill bike to shred the trails. All trails are flow lines and no particular technical skills are required to ride them. There are a few jumps here and there, but they won’t give you any air if you hit them slowly. You could ride these trails on a hardtail without risking to tear it down, but you would be much better off on a full suspension bike – all mountain style. You need your basic protections (helmet, kneepads) but you won’t need to gear up as if you were to go to a gnarliest bike park such as the Mottolino, right in front of Carosello.
- Starting point: Livigno, 3.5 hours by car from Milan.
Photostory
How can you beat a day in the bike park riding with your girlfriend? Carosello is the newest bike park in Livigno, with super flowy lines designed by pro riders such as Danny McAskill that guarantee good fun both for the beginners and the experience riders.
This is the first time in a bike park for Maria and I can tell from the morning that she is feeling cranky. True, this is not one of the toughest ones, but there are loads of riders along the trails who can watch her, put pressure on her, make her feel uneasy. Also I haven’t done a good job of setting the right expectations, and I have spent the dinner the day before just blabbing about lines, drops and bike geometry.
Also, Maria left her helmet somewhere in Switzerland, hence she has to wear my full-face helmet…not that she minds!
After the first tentative corners, she quickly gains confidence and gets better and better.
