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Another weekend, another trip away.
Made the most of the bank holiday in the company of @spotter and CH by tackling the Transcambrian Way, East to West across Wales with plenty of ups and down to rival the most hungry hillish appetites.
With the trail being marked as “moderate” I decided the 3 days allocated could be shortened to 2.5 days. Not so! The climbs are brutal and in the unexpected heat (20º!) we were soon gasping for an easier alternative. A swift bit of NCN cycleway routing took us along beautiful B-roads and gained a bit of time.
One more detour, to the beautiful Moel Prsygau Bothy, was to prove nearly too much for us. A simple 3-mile footpath disintegrated into a bed of tussocks, which after 70k of singletrack was the last thing we wanted to be pushing over. “One more mile to the forest” I chanted to my two downheartened companions, who thankfully didn’t stab me with their multiple titanium camp-food implements. Over and over, until it got dark, then completely dark, then we had to push underneath a forest of trees on their side, felled in a huge storm weeks earlier. At the bothy by 11pm and sat next to a roaring fire, all was well again.
If you take the time, I’m sure it’d be a great trail, and what we rode was gorgeous. Mid-Wales has a wild feeling that is unparalleled in my experiences anywhere apart from the Highlands. 4.5hrs on the train from London each way was absolutely worth it.