I noticed a brand new “black” descent whilst I was riding the Zig Zag section, although I can’t find any mention of it on mbwales or the Afan Forest facebook page. Anyone ridden it yet? Good enough to skip the awesome final section of zig zags?

is that the downhill section labelled for competition only

I saw the sign a few weeks ago. Didn’t notice any “competition only” notes on it, Just signed “Black”.

It was the descent used on the gravity enduro stage.

Yes if you like a challenge! – completely different to riding the zig zags descent. With tight steep turns, off camber roots and rocks!

As above it was used as a stage on one of the national enduro’s- although it has been modified slightly to make some of the turns easier to make since that race.

Yea, been there a while and is known locally as S4, steep and techy. Probably a bit too steep for a lot of visitors.