For UK use Which filter my Sawyer is very slow, but is it the best for healthy water? What about https://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/equipment-c3/water-treatment-c24/water-filters-c165/katadyn-befree-water-filtration-system-0-6l-p7645 Of the MSR trailshot or stick with my Sawyer mini filter On ...

Happy Birthday Both

RIP wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 4:59 pm

Verena wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 12:45 pm

RIP wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 12:28 pm They sound like locations on an MTB Trail Centre course to me!

O forgot: Nice day for a white wedding - that one too on a trail centre?

Yep, done that one. The bit after it goes sharply downhill .

You know the old saying "Failing to prepare is preparing to fail"? Yep, that's me. I'd mentally already prepared to fail a few days ago after reading everyone's posts, decided that I'm not up to the whole thing in 36 hours, and didn't fancy getting caught, and most probably bailing in turn...

RIP wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 12:28 pm They sound like locations on an MTB Trail Centre course to me!

O forgot: Nice day for a white wedding - that one too on a trail centre?

idea about sleeping/living on a traffic island Excellent! You've broken cover now of course, so you're stuck with it :wink: . Ha ha, yes indeed, it shall be my festive December BAM, about as romantic as five years of Milton Keynes 😉 This one has taken my fancy....thinking maybe sooner rather than l...

Had to borrow my (20 year old) daughter's car this morning, so I thought I'd listen whatever music she had in there, to immerse myself in what the youf of today are into....: Relax; Sharp dressed man; Highway to the Danger Zone; Come as you are; Enter Sandman; something ACDC. WTF?!?

Nice

idea about sleeping/living on a traffic island Excellent! You've broken cover now of course, so you're stuck with it :wink: . An idea I had was to bivvy in each of Milton Keynes's "blocks". Trouble is there's about sixty of them, so that would use up 5 years of my BaM allocation. Needs a ...

Landslide wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:55 am My take on it:
https://advntr.cc/hiraeth-the-bear-bones-200/

Nice write up! I bivvied just off the spot where you took the photo under Hay Bluff in August , having come up and over from Gospel pass.

I like it! I know just the spot...nice slopey filed close to edge of town with a view over hopefully some fireworks in people's houses. Count me in. Speaking of stealth and urban bivvies, I've recently remembered that as a teenager, I used to have this idea about sleeping/living on a traffic island ...

The millennium bug non event was because people made a vast amount of effort to ensure it was a non-event. This was mostly done well in advance due to the doom and gloom message so by the time it happened the general public wondered what the fuss was all about. Just like now, some people made a min...

liamg wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 8:22 am

Verena wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 8:06 am I think I saw one of you yesterday morning near Libanus

I think that may have been me. You were stopped on the left hand side of the road?

Sounds about right . Don't know where you started from, but you were looking fresh as a daisy. Incredible time!

larsmars wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 12:14 pm @Richard - sorry to hear you cut it short, looking forward to the stories
@Landslide @Bob & Cath @Juliet assuming all finished now? - Well done!

Well done all, I lose track, bad about the dog bite, I think I saw one of you yesterday morning near Libanus

My god that was hard. I threw the towel in just after Talybont reservoir where I met the road again. Was just about warm enough when riding, but would have really struggled if I’d had to stop and bivy or walk any long sections. Given how rough some of the descents had been, I had my doubts about th...

Nice when are you off?

Tis all a mess. :sad: Edit - It should also be noted that Powys is now above the level of infections per 100k that the WAG locked down other areas for. Wouldn't be surprised to see it coming. O crap. I saw it was 43 per 100,000 this morning, or was it yesterday...on average...with a few hotter spot...

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 7:11 pm Fear not people, the BB200 window of opportunity will remain open for as long as need be ... probably Julember 32nd at this rate.

I filled from streams. No filter. No squits yet... Stopped for a pint at the pub in Llanygidr (sp?) with Trepid Explorer and filled up there too. Nice pub that, coach and horses? It was The Red Lion. Seemed pleasant enough and was very welcoming to a couple of properly filthy bikepackers. :-bd The ...

Travel ban just announced from 18:00 this Friday into Wales from high risk areas in rest of UK. Come now.

So what we need is a field or wood that straddles Wales and England, where we can all camp and keep our distance in our respective countries, and a marquee thingy in the middle with cake and an urn, right?!? No, my understanding is that we can't have more than 30 folk ... I could be completely wron...

In Reverse wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 12:59 pm I filled from streams. No filter. No squits yet...

Stopped for a pint at the pub in Llanygidr (sp?) with Trepid Explorer and filled up there too.

Nice pub that, coach and horses?

So what we need is a field or wood that straddles Wales and England, where we can all camp and keep our distance in our respective countries, and a marquee thingy in the middle with cake and an urn, right?!?

ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 3:06 pm Bollocks. That's not good. Hope you are both OK.

Thanks

:lol: seems to be alot of bloody grumpy farmers in this part of Wales so maybe we best get back up north next yr stu, as iv never had a farmer moan up your way... maybe its coz its closer to the borders and they are trying to keep us out :lol: Feel like I want to defend the Radnor farmers just a li...