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Hi folks can anyone confirm whether all the trails are open or not please, as looking to do the black in the morning? Thanks
Black? There isn't one, check NRW website for status
My "mate" has convinced me to do the Syfydrin trail there tomorrow - after 2 1/2 hour drive it better be good or he will die a painful death on a lonley Welsh hillside
Especially if it's not even open!
Its a great trail well worth the drive and the cafe does a good choice in cakes .
Love the trails there, superb
Pmsl tops 5 u fat b@stard
Most of the Syfydrin is not a trail in the built or designed sense, it's just farm tracks through the hills with some orange trail markers stuck on gate posts. Very nice and remote feeling, but you could do the same ride by drawing a random square on any mid-Wales OS map.
You do get a bit of trail centre action on the way back, v nice singletrack descent (mark of zorro), a grim winch back up, then another blast back to the carpark.
Oh that climb, forgot about that, sends you into a wooded section at one point where you think it's over and done with 🙂
We went last weekend and did Summit twice rather than Syfydrin. Possibly my favourite trail centre ride, although High as a Kite isn't quite the same without the trees.
Just to be clear, the Syfydrin trail incorporates all the of the Summit trail and bits of the shorter one (which name escapes me but includes Hippety-Hop) plus some nice remote-feeling riding on double-track into one big loop. Worth a punt in decent weather - if it's pissing down, maybe not so much.
Tbh I was hugely disappointed by it. It definately gives you the miles from anywhere feeling, no noticeable descents, a few big climbs. The final descent back to the cafe would if been good if they hadn't cut all the trees down.
I've been riding there for 20 years- way before it was a way marked trail centre, and I still love the place.
Obviously it has changed, but there is still the wilderness feel to the place.
The recent tree felling has definitely had an effect though, and the cafe is now piss poor and overpriced.
Depends if you like trail centres to be short with designed singletrack, table tops, berms etc.
Syfydrin is very different to that, double track Land Rover tracks, open hillsides, remote paths, water...(fair bit of water)
The trails nearer the centre have the berms etc but the most of it is just very nice open remote riding.
As everyone has said, the Syfydrin is basically the Summit and the Pendam linked to some seriously out there but not at all technical jeep tracks. It's an odd one. For really great riding, combine the Pendam and the Summit and perhaps even ride twice to get a decent half-day's worth.
High as a Kite isn't quite the same without the trees.
I....I don't know what to say.
I was going to travel home soon, one of the main reasons to blast the summit trail and....
No trees on High as a Kite?
****ing Forestry Commission.
My favorite track in wales.
Also I would just do two loops of summit but jumping out to include hippity hop and drunken druid.
Frankly though without the trees on HAAK... I wouldn't bother going to NYA.
Frankly though without the trees on HAAK... I wouldn't bother going to NYA
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HAAK - high as a kite
nya - nant yr arian
i.e. it's the best track there and that ruined it and that makes me a bit sad.
Er, I understood what you said, I didn't understand why the trees missing on one short section of trail would stop you coming to NYA and as for it being the 'best track' there..........
Unless I'm forgetting something, trees make up almost all of HAAK - it's all tight singletrack winding past them with lovely bar clipping overhangs e.t.c.
Unless you're into big long 'wild' (i.e. about a mile from civilisation) doubletrack descents that is.
Or badly made "hidden" (i.e. known about by anyone ever, even more given strava) downhill routes.
I mean you could be, I don't know.
I thought it was gleeful.
Mark of zorro is better imho .
No trees on High as a Kite?**** Forestry Commission.
Not their fault, there's a fungal infection (Phytophthora ramorum) sweeping across larch trees in the UK and a legal requirement to remove infected trees. Although the infection hadn't reached NyA it was going to happen so they took the vulnerable ones out to limit the spread.