Passo del San Bernardino/Bernhardinpass
	Height	Climbing height
	2065m Sign 2066m	1642m (Lostallo); 1805m (Arbedo-Castione) 453m (Hinterhein); 608m (Splügen)
	Difficulty	Beauty
	South 4 (5); North 1-2 (5)	3 (5)
How to get there	This is a very long (50 km) and sometimes hard climb from the south. It starts flat from Arbedo-Castione (260m) and starts to take off at Lostallo (423m) almost 20 km later. It is very steep around Mesocco (790m) and then actually drops a little to the village of San Bernardino. (It is a small pass at this point too, called simply Forcola (1616m).) From here it is an unusual and interesting climb to the pass. The north side is only a short and uninteresting climb from Hinterhein (1612m) which you reach via a partly cobblestoned road from Splügen (1457m). The big road that goes through a tunnel at Hinterhein (to San Bernardino) is not allowed for bicyclists.
Other comments	If it was not for the part above the tunnel from San Bernardino to the pass height I would have to give it a beauty rating of 1-2, but this part is quite nice and the undulating road gives you headache in trying to figure out where it may be leading you. You will tend to believe that you are close to the pass height several times before you actually are close (like on several other mountain passes). There are good views from the top. Bars at San Bernardino and others villages along the way. This pass really sets the italian Swiss apart from the more germanic Swiss on the northern side (similar to St. Gotthardpass). [CH-GR-2065a;o566]