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Myself and a few mates are doing a small welsh roadtrip this weekend and when we hit afan on sunday morning i was wondering about the w2 route i have heard a little about. We wanted to ride the old penhydd trail too as it has been a while since we rode that. Which centre should we start at to incorporate this, does the route come back to the start point or finish at the other centre? Does it include all the singletrack descents from the wall and whites level? Is the trail waymaked?
Any help welcome, please!
if you're feeling fit you can park at glyncorrwg, then ride w2 and penhydd in one shot
when you reach the bottom of the Wall descent, ride to the visitors centre (about 5 mins) where penhydd starts and ends. after than you can ride back up The Wall, down the Whites Level descent and finish off back at glyncorrwg
personally i don't like The Wall (one half of W2) - nasty climb and the descent is not as good as the other trails. Whites Level and Penhydd are really good though
the best centre if you want to do penhydd too would be afan argoed not glyncorrwg though I'm actually not sure if W2 is signposted from there. I presume it is but being local I never look at the signs
sorry didn't really answer your questions!
yep they are all waymarked
White's Level, July trail and Skyline all start from Glyncorrwg
Penhydd and The Wall start from the Afan Forest centre thing
W2 combines White's Level and The Wall via a few km of undulating fireroad. it's one big loop that you can start/finish from either carpark
petefromearth, would the ride then start on the usuall whites/skyline climb, or do you go to the wall first via the high level route from glyncorrwg?
colin@rush, by starting at afan ,would that mean riding penhydd first then going to the wall via the drop down the valley and across the bridge over the river and up the other side of the valley from penhydd?
get Penhydd in as it's closed as of Monday for tree felling!!
Have fun, you'll love it 
park at glyncorrwg, go up the white's level climb
at the top it branches off over to the next valley for The Wall (all signed)
then ride down wall
do penhydd if you want
back up wall (not fun)
ride down whites back to glyncorrwg carpark
jetwash to your heart's content
scran down some lasagne in the excellent cafe
you'll have a good day 🙂
that sounds like a plan, thanks. I only hope the legs and lungs hold out after the saturday will be spent at coed trallwm and brechfa!!!
As above, Penhydd is closed from next week so make sure you ride it!!