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[Closed] Hiraethog / Clocaenog Forest

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Anyone ridden either of the longer red routes there -"Tough at the Top" and "Two Lakes"?

Are they waymarked?

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Posted : 30/10/2014 2:51 pm
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Yes ridden both and yes they are signed


 
Posted : 30/10/2014 4:50 pm
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Are they any good?


 
Posted : 30/10/2014 5:06 pm
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Thats a great question Tim, anyone feedback would be useful.... - planning a weekend ride there (this weekend)


 
Posted : 30/10/2014 6:08 pm
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Also interested in people's opinions - I'd never heard of the place until now - I'm going to have to investigate.


 
Posted : 30/10/2014 10:19 pm
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Funnily enough back in the mid nineties there was a badly waymarked, completely unsurfaced trail in Clogaenog. Would be nice if they've sorted something new there.


 
Posted : 30/10/2014 10:36 pm
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Get the wind direction wrong and the two lakes will cripple you, get it right and you will go at warp speed. It's high up and exposed on both lakes, combine them with some of the trails down towards Cloceanog and you can have a good day out.


 
Posted : 30/10/2014 10:45 pm
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done round the two resevoirs, pretty flat & just a little bit of singletrack, more family trail type thing.
also done a slog round the forest trying to follow a bikefax route but before decent GPS so went a bit wrong, any singletrack was a bit blocked by trees, but we didn't know where we were going.

seems loads of potential there though & foel gasnach is there.

possibly some new stuff/waymarking gone up recently from Alwen

see [url= http://northwalesmtb.proboards.com/thread/11097/hiraethog ]here[/url]


 
Posted : 31/10/2014 10:02 pm
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The trails are pretty flat as mentioned above more family suited. Foel gasnach has dh trails that can be ridden on a trail bike although you need to join the club to ride there. The sign pictured in the link posted of the map the trails are all bridal way/ BOAT I have ridden the trail from betws y coed all the way to alwen it's 70% off road and the remaining is back lanes. The off road bits are just gravel road nothing hard.


 
Posted : 31/10/2014 10:11 pm
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Yes, we used to run the Cffylliog Challenge up in the woods until a few years ago. (NWMBA). From what i can remember the trails suffered in the wet, but there is some good stuff in there.


 
Posted : 31/10/2014 10:40 pm

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