Video: The Hidden Valley on Afan’s Penhydd trail, Wales
Here’s a piece of video of a great section of the Penhyyd trail in Afan. The section is called The Hidden Valley and is a lovely sweeping single track descent through tight switchbacks and tree lined trail. Great fun! Taken on my Oregon Scientific ATC5K, handlebar mounted. See video of the “Black Run” at Afan’s [...]
Video: Black Run on Afan’s Whites Level
Early start Saturday morning, headed over via North London to pick up Gavin on route to a day’s riding in the hills of Southern Wales at the Afan Forest Park, hosting what are arguably a handful of the best trails in Europe. With the Santa Cruz Blur and Spesh Enduro safely packed into the boot [...]
Trails: Penhydd, Afan, Wales
This is a very varied trail which combines forest road climbs with tight, technical, switchback trails through mixed woodland. The open, flowing singletrack also crosses young plantations opening up fantastic views. Big climbs followed by technical descents mean that this trail can be difficult and is exposed to bad weather on high ground.
Trails: Whites Level, Afan, Wales
My personal favourite, Whites Level is the most technical of all the trails in Afan Forest Park and is 90% purpose-built singletrack. A 6km sheep-track climb gives fantastic views of the Afan Valley, extreme exposure on tight singletrack means ultimate thrills and long, demanding descents with rocky steps to negotiate, all leading to one outrageous [...]
Trails: The Wall, Afan, Wales
Some of the best singletrack descents in the UK, this trail essentially traverses the North side of the Afan Valley on singletrack, varying from fast, open and flowing to tight, technical and rooty. Great views of the valley and coastline open out at different points, and in places the steep-sided slopes can feel exposed. The [...]
Trails: Skyline, Afan, Wales
Skyline is a giant of a ride. Ensure you and your equipment are fully prepared for an epic skyline ride. Sharing the same sheep-track ascent as White’s Level and continuing on long, forest road climbs with sweet, flowing technical singletrack descents you will be treated to stunning, skyline views of the Brecon Beacons, the Preselis, [...]
Video: The Black run at Whites Level, Afan
Although video can never do this trail justice, this should provide a good idea of how much fun this particular section of Whites Level is. Exhilarating! Thanks to Wooty22 on YouTube for making this video of the black run at Afan’s Whites Level trail.
London to Afan, Whites Level, Afan to London
All week, we anticipated the worst whilst we closely monitored the weather forecast for the Port Talbot area. As the week passed, the ambiguous reports suggested the conditions were improving, from “heavy snow” on Monday with midweek reports indicating “heavy rain”, “light rain”, “thick fog” until on Friday evening the oracle was telling us “sunny [...]
Looking forward to Afan. What’s your top trail?
So, I’m off to Afan, Wales in less than 2 weeks time. Four of us have planned a one-day dash to the Welsh hills for some awesome Afan trail fun – as long as it’s not hammering it down, believe me, a 3 hour drive followed by a wet and wild 3 hour ride, topped [...]
