Meirionnydd Round.

[RobW]

Out of interest what is the plan to get between Morfa Mawddach station and Garn Corllwyn ? As the only map of the area I have shows a railway bridge

Yep that's the one. Doubles as a footbridge. 60p toll, although no-one was collecting midday Sunday. Lots of folk using it - an easy way to experience the wonderfully scenic Mawddach estuary.

[mxhornet]

Best anyone doing the round has the right money ready lol

[Toffer]

Yes, do not under any circumstances forget your 60p's! Snowdon to Penyfan almost foundered because we had sent the minibus(with the money) round to the other side of the estuary(S) as it would be easier to park! We emerged from the Rhinogs section without a penny between us, fortunately the supporting Old Grey Beard had a very old fiver stashed in his bum-bag

[IainR]

Yes, do not under any circumstances forget your 60p's!

It's now 70p, inflation.

Anyway a great day, I was feeling it yesterday, hamstrings weren't in good form last night. Sat in the car at 8:00 am being battered by wind and rain I wasn't looking forwards to a long day out, but after the first hour where it was a bit of a blizzard it cleared and was a lovely day.

The forerunner worked it out as 24.5 miles and 2500m of ascent, after downloading through sporttracks, Memory map also provided a similar figure.

[Boy Wonder]

There seems to be a plan afoot for a group of us (including the forum's very own Dominion) to be out on the Rhinogydd on Friday... but I suspect it may be a bit shorter / slower than you guys managed - sounds like an epic time was had by all

[RobW]

There seems to be a plan afoot for a group of us (including the forum's very own Dominion) to be out on the Rhinogydd on Friday

If heading for Carn Gorllwyn, how about a spot of secateur work on that pesky gorse that's taking over the approach to the boulderfield (SH619161)

Have a great run

[Boy Wonder]

Judging by the calibre of the runners who are going to be there this weekend (Mike Hager - 58!!! FFS ran 32.31 for 10k this year, Seb Shepley, a youth of 41, ran 34.20, Steve Rose ran 34.21) I shall need to find them a considerable amount of gardening to do en route, just to keep them vaguely in sight

[molehill]

Have a good day out, I'm envious - not at that bloody speed though
Just drag them over some of the Rhinog rough stuff, that can slow a few of the racing snakes up
Have a great day you lucky beggars.

[RobW]

Anyway a great day, I was feeling it yesterday, hamstrings weren't in good form last night. Sat in the car at 8:00 am being battered by wind and rain I wasn't looking forwards to a long day out, but after the first hour where it was a bit of a blizzard it cleared and was a lovely day.

Hamstrings? Don't talk to me about hamstrings .

Coming off Diffwys I was kicking myself for leaving the camera behind. It's a gorgeous stretch, especially all aglow in that winter light.

Looking at our times, and allowing for stoppages, we were going slightly faster than YDT did on the Day, but only by 5mins or so on each section - even on the Arenig section which was his 4th. I reckon this thing is 3 hours longer than the BG - could even be a bit more.

The forerunner worked it out as 24.5 miles and 2500m of ascent, after downloading through sporttracks, Memory map also provided a similar figure.

Stats for the whole route based on a fairly precise mostly-reccied track currently stand at 73mi, 7964m (26,000 ft) using Anquet. NB this includes Maen Du in the Dyfi Forest section, although having time for extras (or even the "standard route") is still a bit of a distant dream. 3 months hard work ahead .

I am using Anquet v1 which doesn't do .gpx files, so a bit of fiddling (with GPS Utility) is required to get tracks from GPS onto desktop mapping. Don't suppose SportTracks deals with .arf format? Any tips welcome - I'm new to this GPS lark.

[Boy Wonder]

Have a good day out, I'm envious - not at that bloody speed though
Just drag them over some of the Rhinog rough stuff, that can slow a few of the racing snakes up
Have a great day you lucky beggars.

Well that was a fun weekend - Friday was grey, lots of clag so we abandonned ideas of the Rhinogs and ran from the north side of Llyn Celyn onto Carnedd Filiast and then off for miles on a fence (Moley would have been at home - just like Pumlumon!!) to Arennig Fach and back down to the cars. Dominion and the other speedsters left me for dead on the first two-mile steady uphill drag, but I came back into contention in the rough stuff.

Saturday was a circuit on Cadair coming up from the south, incredibly windy so we ended up cutting a bit short but still a two and a half hour run - life in the old boy yet.

Pruning on the Rhinogs now put on hold!