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Heading over that way next weekend and just wondered if Afan and Cwmcarn are both fully open (and that there's no enduro's on). Also FOD as we may stop there on the way?
Alternatively if anyone has some good natural (non trail centre) routes that they can point us too, that would be fantastic!
thanks
Think the haibike mini enduro was last weekend at Afan
More trails than you can shake a stick at here. What sort of thing are you after?
long days in the saddle, good views with a bit of tech would be great!
Cwmcarn and Afan are both fully open. Good views on both and can have nice long days. Lots of steep offpiste tech on the Risca side of Cwmcarn, and a couple of black runs at Afan off of Y Wal.
Most things in FOD (cannop) are open except one section of Verderers and all of Countdown and Launchpad. You could spend weeks here finding good tech, there is a LOT of it but if you don't know what you're looking for you'd have trouble finding it.
Thanks... that's what I thought. Just wondered if someone had a good route that we could load and follow.
long days in the saddle, good views with a bit of tech would be great
Get out the Strava heat map and find the packed squiggly bits where the bike park type trails are (e.g. Wylie). Then get out the OS map and link them up with the mountain tracks e.g. up from say Risca, climb the fire-road onto the Rhymney Valley Ridgeway then take that along to the top of the Wylie trails then down them. If you've got the legs, up 'murder mile' out of Wattsville to Mynyddislwyn, down the hillside to to Crosskeys then up to Cwmcarn or some of the nearby trails etc and down from the Twmbarlwm side. That'd be epic.
I rode Ywall Penhydd Ywall last Friday & apart from a diversion near the bike park that everyone was ignoring, all was good.
I rode all three trails at Cwmcarn on Saturday & all were running well.
Trailforks us useful for the non-trail centre trails around Cwmcarn and Afan.
Thanks… that’s what I thought. Just wondered if someone had a good route that we could load and follow.
This is a lot of good off piste Cwmcarn plus the Pedal Hounds DH track, the very top of Wacko Jacko is closed above the toilet block, but you can do the rest from the road.
https://strava.app.link/BjdJAjAHbhb
Big ride that ^^
Does anyone know what the situation will be with pedalling up and around Forest Drive once it opens to cars again on Monday?
Big ride that ^^
Bloody good it was too. Though the climb back up Darren road is brutal, it’s fast and direct.
You’ve got Wylie bike park, the other side from Cwmcarn, that’s also very good.
https://strava.app.link/38KCrTNRbhb
@jimmy748 some of the trails I've seen whilst travelling those fire-roads on the south of Cwmcarn look a bit terrifying. How are they?
@molegrips they are excellent, step, loose and with nice features, but nothing stupid, no holes are jumps etc, just hit everything at normal trail speed.
*after Jumps