Home to one of the country’s most famous trail centres, Coed y Brenin. The trails here have all been recently regarded, but from what we could work out, there’s one particular section of hard trail and if a route included this its graded black, although it’s certainly not as challenging as blacks elsewhere. Basically there is the 40km Beast, and everything else is just a subset of this (e.g. the MBR trail which we did). Nevertheless, excellent fun and certainly deserving of its repuatation. Which sadly cannot be said for its companion over the road, the Tarw trail. Apparently the original trail centre, it now seems quite outdated and dull, except for the short bits that have been improved. Once the full upgrade is finished it will probably be worthwhile but for the meantime there are better trails in the vicinity! Nice café.
Penmachno is another trail centre. Built without FC assistance, and still without the full approval of the local population, the builders have certainly achieved a lot. It has two loops, with the second loop coming off the first one part way round. The second loop adds little climbing, but actually this means you have to pedal all the way round which is quite tiring! Good quality trail though.
This part of the country seems to have relatively little in the way of natural trail.
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