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Black MTB Trails

Not for the faint hearted! These are technically difficult trails for experts.

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The black mountain bike trails in Val d'Isère bike park are split into two categories - Expert and Elite, and they're only to be ridden by the most competent of bikers, with the skills to handle them.

You need to head over to the Tignes side of the mountain if you really want to test yourself on some of the hardest MTB tracks.

Black Trails - Advanced / expert

  • Karmasutrail; The longest of the black trails at 3km with a drop of 340m. Start: Top of Toviere Finish: on Gypsy red trail.
  • Black Metal. Very steep, very loose full-on descent - strictly for expert level riders. Distance: 1km and descends 250m. Start: Top of Aeroski. Finish: Rosset.
  • Moustache A very tough black trail, with steep narrow and very technical sections which links onto Black Metal. 1km and descends 250m. Start: Top of Aeroski. Finish top of Black Metal.

Double Black trail - Elite

  • Scarefresse: The only Elite graded track in resort, and as the name suggests it's hard as nails. Start from part way down the Tarentaise Airline blue trail and finish above Val Claret, rejoining the red or blue trails back to the village. Expect huge gap jumps and really technical riding.

Find all the trails on the map here.

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