Tips for Afan please

Slow1
Slow1 Posts: 71
edited November 2011 in MTB rides
Going to Afan in December - any tips/guidance on the following welcome:
(i) clothes and pads
(ii) how to approach the different tracks
(iii) drink stops on longer routes
(iv) how muddy and what tyres
(v) how exposed the routes are to weather (wind in particular)?

Cheers
Norco Aurum 2 2012
Spec Stumpy Expert EVO 2011
Scott Scale 50 2011
Scott Speedster S30 2010