platypus-
Also interested as to the location of the gravel valley, it looks awesome.
I think I found the route on Strava, search for "nomad cycling" -
We stayed at Nant Rhys bothy. It’s basically in a valley adjacent to the A44. We headed west from Llanidloes and hung a left at Pant Mawr straight onto gravel tracks. It then took us around 2.5 hours and what felt like around 4-5000 ft of climbing to get to the damn thing. The whole area is a huge logging site, big double trucks are the only vehicles we saw there. Thats a lie actually, we bumped into a guy doing solo maintenance on a wind turbine up the top. He was very suprised to see is up there and was very interested in out setups. I don’t do Strava but my mate told me that the climbing to find the bothy actually took us to our highest point over the four days. In the morning we studied the map and managed to find out way out and came out about 5 miles above the Devils Bridge on the B4574, but again a lot of climbing. It was so much fun that we are going to go back and explore again at some point. Looking at the map there seems to be a whole load more routes out to the east. It was like a ready made gravel park with a free place to stay.
The route should be up on Nomad Cycling on Strava. This link mentions it also i believe.
https://aberoutdoor.co.uk/2018/04/26/nant-rhys-bothy-and-ystwyth-valley/
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We found an entire gravel valley earlier this week in wales, and a bothy.