We wound our way up way onto the ridge with a bit of a stiff breeze and low clouds but the early rain had passed and we stayed dry. We made our way to Nant-y-moch and hooked up onto the Syfyrdin trail.
From there we headed across the moors into nant-yr-arian (where we met the abandoned child) unfortunately arriving after it shut so we set off to get to the pub instead.
We chanced across the most fantastic bit of singletrack into the Rheidol valley which led to the most evil push out to get to Hafod arms. Food and IPA meant we arrived at the bothy moments before we lost all the light and the rain started. The morning was bright sunshine and we were greeted to a wonderful view.
Afyer a lazy start we headed to the red kite cafe for 2nd breakfast. We then retraced our tracks before descending down Glyndwrs way back to Mach under bright blue skies.
Everything seemed to work and my MYOG kit survived but the experience was tainted by a oan unsavory incident as we got onto the moors on Saturday. We found a teenager lost having fallen off his bike and lost from the guided school ride. He'd been separated for about a hour, didn't know where the group started from and didn't have food, drink or waterproofs. We decided to call the police to see if he'd been reported missing, they didn't want a grid reference and seemed to need a post code but we finally got sorted where we were and what was going on when reception dropped out. We decided to take him to the centre as an easily located place but this was a good 10km away. We fed and watered the lad and rode out with him until we met the police 4x4 coming to find us. We left him in there care but we're told by the police the group hadn't noticed he was missing even once they'd got back to their bus parked in the forest. A bit later we bumped into them all and after telling them it was poor (I was biting my tongue) their leader explained it with these things happen! At this point I had to step away to avoid losing it completely, but joked about how it was a good job he got back then as they'd nearly eaten all the food! As the steam came out of my ears we just had to leave.
It was a good weekend, lots of good fun and riding with all the kit on the bike was a better approach for me, we're planning the next one now. But that incident really put a damper on things just thinking of how badly wrong it could have gone.
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