7 Endless Descents

When it comes to downhills, you can never have too much of a good thing. Here are seven amazing descents that just keep on giving.

- Dan Milner

Descents are like chip shops: everyone has their favourite and everyone’s favourite is better than your favourite. But in reality, descents are more like craft ales: each a complicated blend of interacting flavours with nuances that appeal to one person’s palate more than another’s, and for a multitude of reasons. After all, one rider’s heaven is fast loamy flow, while another’s is crammed full of rock gardens. Whether you roll straight off a chairlift, or earn your gravity rewards through sweating for hours up a steep climb, each descent has its loyal fans. But unlike mushy peas, the one thing that we are likely unanimous on, is that a longer descent is generally better than a short one. Though of course, ‘long’ depends on how fast you ride it.

In celebration of the sheer variety of gravity-assisted riding at our disposal, here are seven of the world’s longest, most rewarding descents you’ll definitely want to tick off before you die.

1. MADONNA DELLA GUARDIA, FINALE LIGURE, ITALY