|
|
Post by jon_2_flats on Apr 30, 2012 19:55:06 GMT
hi, planning on doing a bit of a recce ride on sunday from llandrillo, and wondered if anyone had any advice/experiance, this is what i am planning so far....... from llandrillo, up the wayfarer to the summit - no problem there from the summit on the map it shows a track heading south along the county line, following the ridges/summits untill it gets to the sumit of moel sych where it heads straight down to tyn-y-pystll/pystll rhaeader. - i have found i vague line on google maps but wondered if anyone has tried it? then over the tops to llangynog, and looping round back to llandrillo,i have attached a gpx file of the route.......(can also supply a mmo file if it helps anyone decipher my essay :lol any comments.suggestions appreciated, was thinking of a possible forum ride if its any good, works out at 21 miles, but will see what happens on the day Attachments:
|
|
|
|
Post by thistle on Apr 30, 2012 20:43:21 GMT
Dunno if you're allowed to ride the path along the ridge. It's not a public footpath and might be teaming with walkers at the weekend. Some of it has steps, but they might be on the downhill bit. If you go along the ridge, you miss the Wayfayrer descent which is pretty good, but it does save all those miles going down to Llanarmon DC. As you go from Pistyll Rhaedr to Llangynog, the path at the top of the hill was seriously wet when I last tried it. However I came from Llanrhaedr yM and the track from the waterfall might be better. The descent to Llangynnog is a bit mental ;D I had to climb over a fence at the bottom of the bridleway to follow it (might've taken a wrong turn somewhere), however someone (possibly Russ) said it's better to turn off left and go down the bridleway that brings you out further along the road. I went back from Llangynog to Llandrillo via Cwm Pennant, up the side of the spur and over the top. This is a BAD route, really steep, hard to follow on the top and quite wet. Might be better to go up the back road in the bottom of the Cwm Rhiwarth then you can take whichever way down to Llandrillo that you want. I'd come on the recce, if it was a week on Sunday  |
|
|
|
Post by jon_2_flats on Apr 30, 2012 21:09:27 GMT
thanks, i know the track along the ridge from the wayfarer is a permisive path, i had thought about starting up the wayfarer, then turning off on the bridleway that brings you onto the same track, but further along at cadair bronwen? maybe this would be a better idea, to try and avoid some walkers!
tp get to llangynog, i had planned on turning up the bridleway by tyn-y-wern lower along the road than the waterfall, and following over the top, and coming out below craig rhiwarth.
again i had also planned the track from llangynog via cwm pennant and up hafod hir, is this the same one that you did? if so i will re jig that, had then planed on going straight across the road at miltir gerrig, where the track ends and heading straight down to llandrillo want to try and stay off the road as much as possible,
i will try and re jig a bit
as far as a week on sunday goes, we will see, if the weather is to bad this sun then may well change plans and postpone this ride.
|
|
|
|
Post by monterosa on Apr 30, 2012 21:19:32 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by jon_2_flats on Apr 30, 2012 22:01:35 GMT
your welcome to merion, the second ride looks like it will be a bit of an epic!!!, did you go to cadair bronwen on the track along the ridge from the wayfarer sumit? did the track continue, where you turned off on the bridleway back to llandillo?
|
|
|
|
Post by thistle on May 1, 2012 7:26:12 GMT
Not tried that route from Ty'n y Wern either, but it looks alright as the map shows a track up the hill (quite steep though!). I've ridden down the bridleway from Cadair Bronwen to the Wayfayrer road, it wasn't a particularly exciting descent so it's probably OK as a climb. It's a bit wet in places but only as bad as the track from Moel Arthur to Llangwyfan was last week. I'll have to check my photos from when I went, but I think if you turn right from the bridleway towards Cadair Berwyn it might be steps for a while. The track up Cwm Pennant over Hafod Hir is the one I tried and failed to follow. I turned off the road near Vicarage farm and went that way but struggled to find the path. There's some photos on Flattyres' website of it going the other way. I had photos of it but fotopic deleted them  |
|
|
|
Post by oldgit on May 1, 2012 8:01:13 GMT
On the OS there is a bridleway at the bottom of the wayfarers, behind Dolwen farm (actually goes thru the farm) and joins the Pheasant Trail; but when I put it on google map the track seems to finish in a large field and re emergies the other side. I used it many years ago when I knew the farmer
Do you know anything about it Thistle?
|
|
|
|
Post by monterosa on May 1, 2012 9:15:30 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by summittoppler on May 1, 2012 9:55:44 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by thistle on May 1, 2012 17:41:23 GMT
Do you know anything about it Thistle? I can see where you mean, but I've not ridden it. It's on the to do list because there's lots of contours and it looks like it might be a nice descent. It's not very obvious on the aerial photo which isn't a good sign. The bridleway looks like it's meant to cut straight through that yellow/brown field, you can see it stop/start either side on the aerial photo. I know there's a couple of tracks up there that have outstanding claims on them for being byways but not sure exactly where they are. |
|
|
|
Post by jon_2_flats on May 1, 2012 19:56:01 GMT
merion thats the bridleway i was thinking of going up, either that one or the one just below it!
that looks like an epic ride back in january!!!!! i was watching your vid, at one point, i think on the wayfarer decent, you are in a boggy part with sleepers scatered about, has someone ripped up the sleepers that made up the track across the bog? not been up there for a good couple of years at least now
|
|
. 