Serfaus, Fiss… you either love it or you don’t. The fact is that the investment in summer tourism has been enormous in recent decades, and this is reflected in the visitor numbers. Around 2010, it was pleasantly crowded. By now, it appeals to me less and less. Every hiking trail is flattened to make way for the horde of tourists with strollers, and every piece of mountain is adorned with playgrounds, artworks, or fairground attractions. For me, it no longer has anything to do with the real mountain feeling. But those are the choices made there. You see it in more places in the Alps. In the Pitztal, where a café has been built on a mountain top at 3440 meters. In my opinion, it’s an absurd encroachment on the mountain and nature, but they are proud of it. Much (or everything?) has to give way for mass tourism.
But maybe I’m getting old and I’m getting too worked up. And maybe I should turn that frustration into watts! So, off to the Möseralm, sincerely, this must be one of the ugliest places in the Alps that I have seen. An amusement park in the middle of the Alm. But with a paved road from Fiss leading to it. And that makes the climb interesting. Let me give you the disclaimer again: cycle it in the morning before the cable cars open or just after closing time. In between, the road is crowded with large numbers of tourists, and it may not always be easy to pass them. The climb itself is too short to be interesting on its own. It’s a bit like the climb to Leithe Wirt from Serfaus, very similar in terms of distance and gradient. A nice addition to an existing climb. In this case, for example, you can climb from Ried to Fiss and then add this part afterward. But it’s also the icing on the cake because the statistics don’t lie. The climb itself, measured from the cable car, is 2.8 kilometers. You climb 350 meters up to 1810 meters. The corresponding gradient is 12.4%. And that makes this stretch even tougher and longer than the ‘sibling’ to Leithe Wirt in Serfaus.
Anyway, off we go again, and the road from the cable car rises smoothly in a large curve to the right. If you’re looking for peace here while climbing, you’ll be disappointed because the next part of the climb runs parallel to the ‘Fisser Flitzer’, a toboggan run that starts from the Möseralm, which is our destination today. After the left turn with the pirate ship (!?), it gradually becomes steeper and more challenging. A steep stretch under the gondola lift follows, after which a right turn after a few hundred meters introduces a flatter section through a piece of forest to catch your breath. The last two bends are the steepest of the climb. Once at the top, you will probably be looked at strangely by all the day-trippers who wouldn’t dream of cycling up here without motorized assistance. And that’s okay too. The descent is enjoyable, but with many people and children around, of course, one to be careful with.
