Foel Frech Off-Road Pass

Cycling

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Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri

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Location: Ysbyty Ifan, Conwy, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom

Tips

January 30, 2021

Cycling

Completing this loop is impossible without this beautiful and very remote 3km off-road section between the head of Cwm Penanner and the village of Ysbyty Ifan. There's nothing overly technical but it requires a minimum of gravel/hybrid tyres and there is a very short rocky section ( 50-100m) that depending on the weather, your bike and your experience, you might prefer to push. Note that in the direction I did it, this bit is downhill.

Rowan

June 15, 2024

Cycling

This is a proper pass and a good challenge as well. Not ridiculously long but will test you if loaded up. The south face is easily rideable up or down on any bike short of a track bike but the north side is the interesting bit.

Mucky and loose after rain and looser and muckier as it goes down. Several gates make way to a ford crossing. Then another, and then another for good measure. The first is the most technical and rockiest, and the last is the longest.

Please close the gates!