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Massive
down turn
This is really a bit of a beauty, built on the crest of a ridge top it's not steep but cuts dramatically in to solid rock, crossing the ridge itself twice in spectacular fashion. Fast and furious, we found it a bit pedally on the second lap, but it goes to show just how great a trail can be built without losing too much altitude. The middle section of the ride seems to have more forest road than average, there's room here for more singletrack descending if access rights and environmental constraints allow it. Remember that heinous climb at the beginning? Much of that height has been maintained so after a short singletrack climb the massive down turn begins.
Slippery
when wet
If you had any doubts about the caliber of this ride they will probably disappear on here. With humps, berms and jumps this is one amazing roller coaster ride and it goes on for a long time, very sweet. It does suffer with slippery mud when wet, we're not sure if the builders intend to add rock to the surface, good luck to them if they do it'll take forever! The course is pretty thirsty work, there are no caf' stops and on the day we were there the sun was taking no prisoners, we were truly glad of our chilled flasks and bottles of water when we got back to the car. Best advice is to take a cool box full of your favorite food and drinks and some of those dinky frozen brick things, you'll be thankful for it.
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The loop took us a little under 3 hours, the fit and less photographically challenged would make it in a little over two. So this is a two lap ride then, unless you brought the wife and kids along. We certainly managed it, even taking slightly less time for the second circuit than the first. As a bonus the somewhat slippery final descent had dried out nicely and we doubled our speed for even more high berming, aerial thrills.
Rumour has it that three local trails including the Gwydyr North we rode are to be linked in to one mega-trail, we'll be there!
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