Frontera Technical Support

by **Postfinder** on Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:16 pm

Wild Welsh Camping Weekend March 20th -22nd

Our Phil aka Sir Doris, has yet again foolishly, ahem, kindly agreed to lead a group around the lanes surrounding the Machynlleth area.
Camping will cost £4.50 per person, per night, showers cost 0.20p, or more depending how dirty you are. :lol:

There is a good pub/hotel just down the road :party:

But I think we may need a couple of designated drivers to get us all back safely :roll:

For those of you that cant travel down on the Friday night, please arrive early on the Saturday as we will be leaving the campsite by 10.00am
If there is enough interest in this weekend we will obviously split the group.
Please add your name to the lists below.
This should be a good one :wink:

Graeme.

Those confirmed so far:
Sir Doris
Postfinder
Weave & Co
Alex
Trugga
FrontyDan & Frontycustoms: Fri-Sat
Drift
Colley
DamRabbit
Cheekychick

Unconfirmed:
Fuddy Mucker
Erkos
Nitromotor
Ryan

DIRECTIONS AND LOCATION OF CAMPSITE

Wild Welsh Campsite Location (Google Maps)

Wild Welsh Campsite Location (Ordnance Survey)

For those of you with Sat Nav the postcode is: LL36 9AJ

Price is £4.50 per person per night with a tent.
Showers are 20P, has the usual campsite facilities, toilets, washing machines, electrical hookup for caravans etc.

Small Camp-Fires (IE. Not Bonfires ;-)

) will be allowed.
Dogs on leads will be allowed.

3 separate routes have been marked out.

They are:
Machynlleth and surrounds. Potentially scratchy and possible damage but unlikely. Some lanes weather dependent.
Dollgellau and surrounds. Easy lanes, possible light scratches, excellent views,
West of Aberystwyth and surrounds. Easy to moderate lanes, some nice rock and grass climbs, possible light scratches, excellent views.

(Edited by Sir-Doris to include camp-site and lane details)

by **andysd1** on Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:30 pm

drift as unconfirmed

by **nitromotor** on Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:33 pm

Im unconfirmed

by **Trugga** on Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:35 pm

Ooo, I better put my name then - will be a change to sit in the middle and not have to open gates

Lawrence

by **Postfinder** on Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:43 pm

Trugga wrote:Ooo, I better put my name then - will be a change to sit in the middle and not have to open gates

Lawrence

Guess who's just come to mind for leading the Sunday Run :lol:

G.

by **frontydan** on Sat Feb 28, 2009 2:32 pm

I'll come for the Friday and the Saturday but as it's mothers day on the Sunday i would get shot if i'm not at home.
Cheers
Dan

by **alex** on Sat Feb 28, 2009 4:25 pm

Send flowers like I do. Come back to all smiles.

by **Trugga** on Sat Feb 28, 2009 4:29 pm

Postfinder wrote:
Trugga wrote:Ooo, I better put my name then - will be a change to sit in the middle and not have to open gates

Lawrence

Guess who's just come to mind for leading the Sunday Run
G.

Passenger seat is going spare

Lawrence

by **Sir-Doris** on Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:26 am

If 2 groups Il be nominating/requesting a 2nd leader. Im working on the routes as we speak and will email the overlay to whomever wants the job.

So far day 1 looks to be about 30KM of lanes. Some of the lanes are fairly close together, others are a few miles apart. Either way a full day's laning is involved. those of you with road biased tires may need a tug or 2 at some point but nothing extreme. Generally the surface will be rocky/shale with a few muddy sections.

Day 2 Depends on how people are feeling after Saturday night ;-)

Plenty of other lanes within spitting distance and I have a rather nice, intermediate route West of Aberystwyth, nothing too challenging but I have to run it beforehand as someone has told me that a farmer/s has locked a couple of the gates on it. The lanes are much closer together on this one but with stops etc it should still take the better part of a day to complete. Should be easily done on standard road tires as most of the surfaces on this one are rocky/shale with a few possibly muddy sections.
If any parts of this route are blocked off I will try and find alternatives.

Maps will be provided on the day, although I can only print in A4 so may be a little small but its nice to see where you have been.

I will at some point be checking out the B*****d lane to check suitability, I do however recommend this time round if we do attempt it that we do it first rather then last ;-)