Mountain Biking

• Duration: sessions of 1.5, 3, or 6 hours
• Season: summer
• Fitness: four skill levels, from first-timers to experts; e-bikes welcome
• Group size: maximum six riders per guide
• Where: Arosa Bikeschool, Skill Center at the Hörnli-Express base station

The experience

There is something about seeing Arosa from a mountain bike saddle that changes how you experience the landscape. The trails climb through thick pine forests, break out onto open alpine meadows, and wind along ridgelines where the views stretch across the entire Schanfigg valley. This is not a spin class in the mountains. It is a proper ride through one of Switzerland's most rewarding bike regions.

Guided by the Arosa Bikeschool

Your group meets a local guide from the Arosa Bikeschool, the village's dedicated bike school operating from the Skill Center at the Hörnli-Express base station. The school's guides are qualified instructors who combine trail knowledge with structured technique coaching. After a short briefing at one of the school's meeting points in the village, you set off into the mountain trails that connect Arosa with the surrounding alpine terrain, from flowing singletrack through meadows to more technical forest descents.

Tailored to the group

The experience is tailored entirely to the group. The Arosa Bikeschool works across four skill levels, from complete beginners who have never ridden a trail to expert riders looking for rock gardens and steep technical passages. First-timers and those who prefer a gentler pace can ride on e-bikes, which are fully welcome and open up the higher-altitude trails without the grind. More confident riders get steeper terrain, tighter cornering, and the kind of descents that make you forget you are on a corporate outing. The guides keep groups small, a maximum of six, so they can coach technique along the way, whether that means body position on a descent, cornering through loose gravel, or specific skills like bunny hops and manual riding.

Beyond the standard tour

• Ride and technique: a session that blends guided riding with targeted technique training.
• Culinary route: the guide takes the group to the finest mountain huts around Arosa.
• Corporate formats: the school explicitly caters to corporate events and can structure the session around team dynamics rather than pure sport, with private lessons in blocks of 1.5, 3, or 6 hours.

Why it works for teams

This works well for groups looking for shared adventure with a genuine sense of achievement. By the time you roll back into the village, everyone has a story about the trail they conquered, the corner they nearly missed, or the view that stopped them mid-pedal.

Back at the hotel

The ride ends a few minutes from Hotel Altein, where the 950-square-metre spa deals with the legs and dinner deals with the stories.

Plan it into your retreat

Our events team co-ordinates the bike school, the bikes, and the timing around the rest of your day. Send us your retreat dates and group size, and we will build the ride into your programme.