The course continues with a wide descent over meadows with beautiful views to the hills over Bodiná. Btw. the saddle also offers a wonderful view in the opposite direction towards Súľov castle, Brada, Roháč… Many of you will breathe a sigh of relief that the feared climb through the meadows is now a descent… After a short asphalt section through Bodiná begins a pleasant ascent to the saddle over Vrchteplá. Just before the summit, the panorama of Bodiná hills opens in front of you for a while. The descent to Vrchteplá is short and fast. The feeding station (3.VOS 47.km) (1.VOS 13.km) (1.VOS 13.km) is situated in the usual place near the pub at the local square. The old asphalt road ends with the last houses and then you easily ride up the meadow to the Minarčíkovské saddle. After some 500 meters of descent in the forest you turn right onto a traverse that leads you to the meadows under Dubovec. Here you get the most beautiful views of Súľovské skaly. A fast descent through the meadow is followed by a field path ending near the camping site below the football pitch in Súľov.

A wide asphalt road leads you through the Súľov gorge and after some 2 km begins the most technical section of the whole course, the ascent to the Javor saddle. A field path leads you directly between fantastic rock formations. If time is not on your mind, you can take as many pictures as you wish…The ascent leads directly along the natural preserve border. Just take your right leg off the pedal and you are in there! You can find here 2 - half a meter deep rock stairs that our assistants help you to conquer.  Here is second. This exposed section is some 150 meters long. The rest is ridable. Few meters after the place where the green tourist marking turns to Súľov castle, you turn left onto a path that leads you up to the top of the climb. If this section does not melt your hearts then I really don’t know… Singletrail No.1! Then, there is a short but steep descent where you have to turn right sharply. After riding up a 20 meter steep bit you join a traverse that leads you above Jablonové with nice views of Veľký and Malý Manín and a gentle climb at its end takes you to Hrabové valley. This descent offers various types of surfaces - starts with a meadow, continues over smooth field path and finishes with short rocky sections. The last kilometer leads over a narrow asphalt road between the houses. Please be cautious here. Another feeding station is situated near the church in Hrabové (4.VOS 59.km) (2.VOS 25.km). You have some time for digestion before you get to the local agricultural farm but then comes a 300 meter steep bit over a meadow up to the saddle above Hlboké. It is not as steep as the “Bodiná wall” though… A beautiful traverse alongside the forest leads from the saddle just above Hlboké. However you won’t ride down to the main road in the village but from a narrow trail between the fields you will enjoy the views of rock pillars with Hlbocký waterfall. You get to the centre of Hlboké at the municipal office. After app. 500 meters of asphalt you get onto a macadam climb between the fields. It took us some time during the course inspection before we found this nice passage alternative to Hričovské Podhradie. The path passes by the Ostrý vrch along the forest traverse and the edge of the forest offers you the view towards Váh valley and Javorníky in the distance. You can also watch the highway construction site from here. When you cross the meadow you get onto a forest trail leading underneath the natural preserve – Hričov Rock Needle. A nice descent brings you to the centre of Hričovské Podhradie with the next feeding station near the pub (5.MOS 69.km) (3.MOS 34.km). From here you can spot the local dominating feature – the ruin of Hričov castle. Not even here does the course join the main road but leads over a parallel route – a narrow asphalted path near the fences gets you to the end of the village, directly to the Hričov gorge. Only 200 meters of wide asphalt are enough to bring you right underneath another delicacy, the passage over the top of Rôsoviny saddle. Already the initial part of the climb leaves no one in doubts that is the hardest part of the course – with an elevation of 375 meters. The first kilometer with gravel – rocky surface underneath the Hričov castle is tough but you can make it. Then it is going to be quite different. Easy climbing, beautiful views and a hard gravelly surface with sandy bits; that is the reward for ascended meters. There is one place though in the following descent over the wide gravel road where you will have to increase your attention – a “Mammoth hole”. You certainly won’t miss it…There will be a warning board in front of it just to make sure “!!!”.

Near the church you turn left onto a macadam road. The following 200 meters of climbing are really demanding. In the sharp right-hand corner you join the Educational trail along the Súľov castle. Some 100 meters behind the forester's lodge that is on the left hand side underneath the dolomite rock cliff, just to the left between the trees, you can find an interesting natural formation – mushroom rock Smrčok. And directly above, atop the rocks, you can spot another well known pair of rocks – The Owl and The Little Owl. The climb gets more moderate after a while and over your heads to the left you have the ruins of the Súľov castle and right in front of your eyes, the most significant rock formation with three summits – Brada (816 m.s.l.). The trail leads just meters from the natural preserve boundary along the forest edge. The educational trail splits to the left and you get an open view of the rock formation Roháč. The trail gently snakes itself up and down. You dive into the forest for a while, then a light descent shows up; you exit the forest and turn right on the way down before the wall of trees. Even though the path continues through the forest, it is already the natural preserve. After some 300 meters of downhill you get to a field road and turn left sharply.  For you stay Brada and Roháč. This road dives into the forest as well but it is directly on the boundary of the natural preserve. After another 300 meters, you get to a meadow with a fountain and then a beautiful scenery of the rock formation Roháč opens in front of you. Having a camera with you is really worth it. Then you continue with a steep climb that ends on the meadow where once the cottage from the movie Falconer Tomáš stood. The panorama of Súľovské skaly from this place is just…, you will see yourself. From the meadow, the course leads to the forest edge, after some 20 meters of sharp climbing you get onto a forest trail where you turn right and after 1 km the trail leads you towards the tourist path from Roháč saddle where you join the 95 km and 50 km courses. After exiting the forest you wobble over one meadow horizon and one might say that you just have to easily turn the pedals to the finish. Across the smooth meadow, where you can easily reach 70 km/h, you get to an asphalt road, brake a bit and after app. 10 meters you turn right onto a narrow path between the trees, the word tunnel would be suitable here, wade the creek, a beautiful grassy trail leads you to the main road and after some 500 meters you are at the finish. Congratulation !!!