Cwm yr Rhayader update.

Cwm yr Rhaeadr is one of my favourite trails but it was devastated by the storms two or three years ago. It wasn't just trees across the trail, it was the hanging death of hung-up trunks high above just waiting to drop. I was told that there's over a decade of work to sort Caio forest nearby so I had no hopes that Cwm yr Rhaeadr would've sorted anytime soon.

Anyway I took a spin up today. The lower section is still open and just as much fun as always although it is a bit slippy due to lack of traffic. 

As I pedalled up to the very top it was good to see new signage. 

There's a lot of forestry work going on at the top. Tillhill have a bunch of machines clear-felling so the tapes across the trail are there for very good reasons. If you do manage to get past the storage box the final single track climb is wholly clear all the way to the top of the descent. Logging is ongoing here, there's no sign of the trail under the carnage but at least work has started. 

So... TLDR

Things are looking up.