WELCOME IN OUR WORLD
WE WILL TAKE YOU TO EXPLORE NATURE AND LOCAL CULTURE ONE RIDE AFTER ANOTHER
We are Cristina and Marino, mountain professionals
With Mountainstudio20, we want to share our passion for biking with you
The idea of creating a job from a great passion for the mountains began to take shape in 2020. Together we shared many adventures and trips in the mountains both in summer and winter, on rock, on snow and on two wheels.
United by this great passion for sport and the mountains, in 2020, we decided to get involved by creating MountainStudio20, a company aimed at offering a mountain bike guide service with daily mtb tours in the Dolomite Mountains.
Today, a few years after its birth, we continue to engage in this project with passion and dedication. Searching for new mtb tours, new destinations to explore and new ideas to propose creates great opportunities and thanks to this our mtb tours take place in the most spectaluar area of the Dolomites.
Marino Cardelli
MTB INSTRUCTOR
MTB GUIDE
Marino is nice, creative, available and stimulating, a real source of positive energy during outdoor activities. A nature and adventure lover in all its forms.
Rooted in the passion for sharing sport and the mountains
Since childhood, thanks to his parents, he has practiced outdoor activities in the Dolomites mountains like skiing, biking, hiking, climbing and via ferrata. From the age of 12 up to 23 he was part of the National Alpine Ski Team and boasts participation in international competitions such as the Olympics Winter Games , World Championships and the University. After graduating in Industrial Design, he works as a graphic designer … after a while he discovers that the office is not his habitat.
Now he dedicates himself entirely to bike courses and as a guide during the spring, summer and autumn and as a ski instructor during the winter. He is able to connect with various cultures and each person, ready to motivate and encourage his students, encouraging them to reach the goal. Attentive to detail and continuously looking for the perfect athletic gesture.
His passions are ski mountaineering, freeride, mtb, surfing and travel.
He speaks Italian, English and Portuguese.
Favorite tour: between Pelmo and Civetta
Cristina Santini
HIKING GUIDE – INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN LEADER
MTB GUIDE
Cristina was born in Faenza and started skiing at the age of 4 and from then Dolomites became her favourite place on earth. That is why on 2011 she bought a small house, “a den”, in San Tomaso Agordino just in front of Civetta. She thinks that everybody should visit this small mountain village once in a life, breathtaking views and magic nature.
She studied economics at the university and for years she divided her life between working as chartered accountant and tax advisor and escaping from that every Friday for finding in the mountauins her fullfilment. Now she teaches economy and during summer she lives and works in the Dolomites.
In 2019 she became hiking guide and in 2021 mtb guide. She loves, freeriding, alpine skiing, ski touring, Climbing, mtb, travelling.
She also loves nature, animals and writing… her first book, about a true story of an alpinist, has been recently published
Her smile is catching and she always manages to motivate people in order to push to overcome themselves.
“FUTURE IS NOW”
She speaks Italian, English and French.
Favorite tour: Lusia San Pellegrino
WHO IS THE MOUNTAIN BIKE GUIDE
The Mountain Bike Guide is a professional capable of knowing and making the most of mountain biking and in general the bicycle in all its aspects, with excellent knowledge of the territory, its culture and its hospitality: a sportsman capable to lead groups of people in complete safety. The Guide can operate, without limits and restrictions, throughout Italy, Europe and the rest of the world. The professional recognition (law n.4 of 14 January 2013 of the Ministry of Economic Development) makes the Mountain Bike Guide one of the main protagonists of cycle tourism and cycle excursions, in particular, but not exclusively, in the off-road discipline.
HIKING GUIDE – INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN LEADER
AMM is an Italian certification for “Accompagnatore di Media Montagna” (i.e., Mountain Leader). AMM guides are part of the professional register of the Italian alpine guides CONAGAI. Mountain leaders can guide clients in activities such as: Hiking Trekking Snowshoeing
An International Mountain Leader (IML) is a person that has been trained and assessed against the challenging requirements of UIMLA. These requirements are specified in a document called “A common platform standard” (UIMLA Standard).
The IML qualification lets the holder lead groups in different mountains all over the world, where the skills and equipment of alpinism are not required. IMLs cannot provide tours on glaciers and permanent snow, and where the planned use of a rope is necessary. However, IMLs can work with groups on high altitude treks as well as lead groups on snowshoes. IML’s, from every member country, have to maintain International Continuing Professional Development (ICPD) to ensure that members are kept up-to-date with the latest developments in mountain leadership.Only a qualified International Mountain Leader has the badge and the carnet of The UIMLA organization
MTB INSTRUCTOR
The TI2 First Level Technician of the Italian Cycling Federation is aimed at children who want to approach the sport of cycling such as mountain biking or road, learning the simplest things regarding the technique on the bicycle, to learn how to use it correctly, avoiding dangers to themselves and for others. The training of this figure is mainly focused on educational and psycho-pedagogical aspects. The First Level Technician also knows the objectives that can be achieved by children and the most suitable development methods for these age groups (5-12 years).
Our Style
Professional, organized, friendly and attentive.
Our pillars: attention towards our customers, research and planning every single e-bike tour down to the smallest detail. We try to make even a tiring climb as light as possible. Satisfaction is not enough for us, we want to inspire!
We offer the highest quality of service and customer friendliness. We try to outdo ourselves every day, always giving our best. We want to involve and interest the customer so he returns home with the mountains in his heart.
We truly want the hours spent with us, among unique views and scenarios, to be an indelible memory. We are attentive to everyone’s needs to try to create a tailor-made experience. Each of us has a favorite altitude in the mountains, a landscape that resembles it, where we feel good, we try to take you right there and if you still don’t know what it is, let’s try to find it together.
We are from the Romagna region, we have friendliness and hospitality in our blood, seeing the amazement and joy in the eyes of our customers makes us really happy.
Mission and values
Passion and attention for the mountains and the territory, love for life in the open air and outdoor sports.
We know we are dealing with a “common good” and for this reason, we believe that the only real possibility is to create something that goes beyond tourism,
It’s about transmitting a lifestyle, sensitivity and attention toward the territory and nature, to understand its beauty and importance. The mountain is not just snow, cliffs, ridges, streams, lakes, paths, woods, and pastures.
The mountains are a way of living life. The mountain knows how to teach, transmit, and regenerate.
As the Tibetan philosopher Milarepa said, “In the deserted stony slopes of the mountains you will find a strange market: there you can exchange the vortex of life for boundless bliss.
