BCF North Wales Trip [Picture Thread Link P12]

[-Matt-]

UPDATE
Will be doing this over August, 29th, 30th and 31st. Campsite will have essentially unlimited spaces available for any late arrivals who want to come along - post on here or PM me your mobile number if you want to come along/have shown interest and haven't already joined the whatsapp chat.
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ORIGINAL POST
The original plan has changed a lot due to peoples availability/costs/numbers - currently its just long-weekend of general biking and sight-seeing in North Wales.

Planning to arrange a camping trip near Snowdonia in Wales for sometime in June/July/August.

Its still early stages at the moment so open to input if people have any better ideas but the current plan is to leave early saturday and head up there - camp the night then leave late sunday so it fits around most peoples weekend. It may be worthwhile to throw the friday/monday into the plan if possible and camp there for second night, particularly for those who have further to travel. I went on a trip up there with Ws4936 a couple of months back and know a good quiet spot with plenty of space to camp off-road. Mountain stream nearby for washing/toilet requirements . See here.

On the Sunday I was hoping we can fit in some things for people to do depending on when people need to get home/if we can add in an extra spare day. Couple of people are interested in doing the Zipwire in the area, and theres a caving experience i'm interested in doing myself. Theres also various tours of the mountains, and generally great biking roads for anyone who just fancies an afternoon/day riding in the area. Hoping people can head off for a few hours to do whatever is of interest then meet back up to ride back until people head their seperate ways along the route.

Zipworld [The new Titan Zipwire should be open by July - Longest in the world ]
Europes longest and fastest Zipwire - £50 / 3-4 hours

Go Below
General caving and other underground stuff - £50 4-6 hours

Post/PM me if you're interested and we can try figure out what dates are best for people.

[-Monty-]

As stated in the Top Secret BCF EuroTrip ChatRoom, I am a definite for this pretty much whenever it ends up being (we could do a maybe/definite list like Marm did for the EuroTrip thread).

I am interested in the Zip Ride as your video of it looked really good seeing all the views from so high up. Although I'm absolutely terrified of roller coasters and other such fast things which I have no control over. Is the Zip Ride anything like that?
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[-Matt-]

To be totally honest - I was disappointed a bit. It was great fun and i'm glad I did it don't get me wrong, but I expected it to be more of a 'thrill'. Because of the angle you go down at for the most part and the wind buffering you feel relatively slow.

You aren't actually going slow at all, but the fact you're so high up makes the ground move very slowly which is all you have to measure your speed against. The main thing I remember was the noise - its extremely windy, it sounds like the video does through the drift

The only thing that might un-nerve you is if you're afraid of heights - at the beginning of both the zip descents [theres a small zip first], you have for a while in the air over a fairly high drop until they get confirmation its safe to release the slider. Once you're moving I doubt it will matter as you're looking around constantly.

I'll do a list as you suggested

[Aff]

As I said in the chat, stick me on the maybe.
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[-Monty-]

[-Matt-]

If we only go for the single night camping fitting both caving/zip into one day will be near-impossible I think unless you get extremely lucky with a late/early booking on each

If we don't make the trip before Euro though, in June they're opening a new wire - Zip-Titan, which will be the largest Zip-Line in the world. If we go after Euro then i'll probably join you at Zipworld and repeat it/ do the new one www.zipworld.co.uk/titan

[-Monty-]

[-Matt-]

Well noticed

Perhaps won't be available to us by the time we confirm bookings then - Seems to read as if its a 2 week pre-booking/opening to start with. So depending when we go it might be okay; although I expect it will be very busy even into July with that having just opened/the weather being good

[ws4936]

That camp site is perfect man, great location!
Heavily suggest an early leave to get there, especially if you take that gorgeous scenic route from Newport northbound.

I only have about 3-4 weeks when I get back before I'm touring again to Spain for 6 weeks, so it'll be a tight window, but would love to do that again! The road/ride/Zipline/camp was all fantastic, can't see why anyone wouldn't want to do it tbh.

I'll do what I can to squeeze it in, cept the caving! Done that once before, vowed never to do it again :p
I can't recall the one we done, but the level was pretty tough, and although not a claustrophobic sufferer....some of the positions I had to contort to to get out left me never wanting to repeat it.

I'll tag along for moral support though.
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[Dilyan]

I'll keep an eye on this one. Need solid dates so I can book it off. Zipwire looks awesome, would love to glue my phone on my head and shit myself
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[_Troy_]

I have every weekend free, so dates don't matter to me. However, money does. I have not long started my new job, so a couple of months without pay is going to be hitting me hard. I'll have to see how funds are when the time comes.

Oh and my brother wanted to come along to this. He doesn't have a bike, and wants to come pillion for the trip. Good idea of not? It means our luggage would need to be spread among others...
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[_Troy_]

As I typed the above I was handed my pay slip - so I am getting moneys this month. It's also the biggest pay packed I've ever had

So, I'm pretty much a definite, depending on brother passenger and bike condition.
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[-Matt-]

I can get an extra tent on the back of mine if needs be I expect - So long as you have a tank bag, or even Paris takes a backpack tbh should be fine

No chance he'll get a bike sorted out ?

[_Troy_]

[TheSmiler]

Very interesting, going keep an eye on this.
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[-Matt-]

Decided to delay the original plan and arrange this for June/July to fit it in after the BCF Euro trip as seems the majority are more likely/only able to come around then.

[-Monty-]

Awesome. I should still be able to come then
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[Paris2]

I'm on the list before I even read the thread!

I'm only a definite depending on dates, as I may have work.

And no, no chance of me getting a bike. We are saving for a house at the moment and a bike suddenly arriving in our garage would not go down too well

I'll ride bitch with Troy, I have done it many times and will amuse myself by poking him in the back of the head.
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[_Troy_]

[-Matt-]

Ah my bad, down-graded you to a maybe for now

[fatjames]

Stick me on as a maybe. Sounds like a good plan (except caving, I wont do that again! Aaaannd is there a b&b for the too posh to camp?? )

[-Matt-]

Theres a fair few villages in the surrounding area you should be able to find somewhere thats not too pricey, may need a bit of booking in advance being July but hopefully we'll have some potential dates a fair bit ahead of time so should be fine

[Marmalade]

[-Matt-]

Quite tempting for 15 quid although would ruin the whole point of it being a camping trip of we ALL went there i guess

You reckon you might be able to make it Marm or too tricky with work?

[Marmalade]