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 kerv
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Off to Talgarth for a weekend of mtb next weekend but the trails on the Brecon website (Grwyne Fawr etc) look like they involve a bit too much tarmac. Any advice?


 
Posted : 20/10/2010 9:34 pm
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Black Mountains killer loop?

The gap?

Blorenge!

mount Lord Herefords knob?


 
Posted : 20/10/2010 10:11 pm
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By "next weekend" do you mean this coming weekend 23rd and 24th?

If so, I'm staying near Brecon and looking to do a route probably on Sunday, probably an extended Gap.

Let me know if you're interested.


 
Posted : 20/10/2010 11:18 pm
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Sorry Royston will miss you by a week ๐Ÿ™
Mount Lord Herefords knob!!!!! it's not that sort of weekend dr Nick! Where can I get details of these trails though, incase Lord Herefords knob looks appealing.


 
Posted : 21/10/2010 8:22 am
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It's just south west of the most easterly point of [url= http://http://www.mtbbreconbeacons.co.uk/hubs/talgarth/foothills-of-the-black-mountains ]this[/url] route


 
Posted : 21/10/2010 9:03 am
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If you drive up to Pengenffordd, road from Talgarth to Abergavenny, you can do away with a lot of tarmac bits; you can ride across base Black Mtn (with section tarmac), pickup track up Y Das (big push up stoney rubbley steep track)> down to Grwynne Fawr, then work way up thro forest to get track out over Crug Mawr> descend to Llanbedr> section tarmac lane to north up to bridleway over Pan Trumau and back to car at Pengenffordd; limited parking at SO 176 303 or ask permission at Castle Inn on main road at Pengenfforrdd ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 21/10/2010 9:17 am
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You can cut a fair amount of road off the black route listed [url= http://www.mtbbreconbeacons.co.uk/hubs/talgarth/grwyne-fawr-reservoir ]here[/url] by going up through Mynydd Ddu forest and exiting at the southern corner onto a nice bridleway SO260231. Turn right on the road and head up the valley until the track turns into a bridleway again. At SO204286 don't follow the bridleway south as per the route, instead descend the bridleway called Rhiw Trumau - top drawer descent IMO.

Ian


 
Posted : 21/10/2010 9:17 am
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IanB and I are describing same alternative I believe.....


 
Posted : 21/10/2010 9:20 am
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Cheers for the advice, I shall take it on board and still get horribly lost. Probably.


 
Posted : 21/10/2010 11:51 am
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---just in the forestry section I would think! Take a good 1:25k map and if possible GPS to log out the route before


 
Posted : 21/10/2010 12:51 pm