Day 3 of riding turned out to be pretty gloomy.
The weather was crazy, bursting the banks of many rivers in the area and flooding the gardens of many houses. The plan was to ride the 2nd highest mountain in the UK, but because of the crazy weather, we decided that we'd go for an easy ride today. Ouch on the wallet, but i was soon to be shocked...
We rode the bellegert Forest of North wales, a really empty forest. I was soon taken aback when we were riding towards enormous waterfalls accompanied by crazy awesome scenery. The ride was nothing technical except a few bits, nothing too exciting apart from several rocky drops and downhill bits. One thing was clear though, this ride was not about adrenaline packed riding. It was about mountain biking. Being in the woods, with your bike, the best scenery ever and a good riding buddy, my guide Bryan. This was what mountain biking is all about and sometimes, we forget that after riding too much.
Not to mention, this trail in the forest was the world cup track of EARLY Mountain biking back in the days. World cup racers really have beautiful tracks to race on !!
The ride soon brought us to a beautiful lake where my guide and i just sat down along the benches and talked. Oh yeah we talked. We enjoyed the sights and learnt more about each other. It was amazing.
We continued the ride and beforelong, we were hitting some long rock strewn-ed downhill sections, it was great fun!! We even rode down several amazing singletrack down Rstreams and rivers. It was crazy good.
The ride quickly came to an end, a mere 22km and that was it for the day. Bryan told me that most of the trails in the area would be crap given the weather. While i was not completely convinced, i was fine with the day coming to a quick end. i must say my heart kind of sank.
But it was nice, having half the day off where i visited a beautiful royal palace in caenarfan and did some good shopping before heading back to talk to a few friends.
the day came to an end ... Short, sweet and beautiful.
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