MTB Riding in Pennal Woods
Pennal Woods MTB Route
For a change from our usual Ystwyth-MTB weekly evening ride we headed off to Pennal Woods last night for a little guided ride by Shem.
Shem, martyn, Dave, Simon, Dan and I met in Pennal (which was looking a little grey) and headed off into the woods where we met up with Tegid and Andy. A little climb and then it was onto some slippery grassy downhill where Simon managed to snap his deraileur hanger so had to end his ride prematurely.
We then had a relaxed ride doing the usual fire road climb followed by grassy or muddy descents. I saw Martyn go over the bars once and then it was my turn on a dark, root descent my front wheel went into a dip and didn’t come back out again so I had a little excursion of the handlebars too.
Shem had built a couple of little wooden jumps on the final descent so we played around there for a bit before heading out of the clouds and back down to Pennal. It was a nice change from the usual trails at Nant yr Arian, Angler’s Retreat or ClimachX, and I’m sure we’ll be back for some more soon.
Click here for a Google Earth file of our route in Pennal Woods.
