Crudcatcher Ride - Snowdon!!

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  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    Good call there!

    Apparently I've gone indecisive in my old age, I'd totally decided that if Antur Stiniog was closed I'd call off, and I was quite happy with that. Then you said it was open and I thought "Damn it, now I have to go". And it's taken til now to remember I actually want to go! What a spaz...
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  • Proutster
    Proutster Posts: 785
    Proutster wrote:
    Richie63 wrote:
    Proutster wrote:

    Coed-y-Brenin on Sat, Stiniog on Sunday sounds good to me :D

    We have the b n b in the wrong place then big drives from penny pass

    Right, after some discussions with Richie63, we've taken an excutive decision and - as we won't be going up Snowdon - have moved accommodation.

    We're now staying in the Glan Aber Hotel Bunk House in Betws y Coed. We have 6 places booked in the bunk house and 1 booked in the hotel.

    This place has secure bike storage (apparently a locked cellar - perhaps that will come in useful late on Saturday night?)

    The average cost, including breakfast, will be £54 each. After losing 10% of the HYA booking (tight gits), that means you all owe me £12 (cash-in-hand when we meet on Friday will be fine, I've paid for it). All of us non-YHA members were going to have to pay another £3/night upon arrival anyway, so that's not too much more.

    Decision on who gets the posh, hotel, room will be taken following a naked mud wrestle on the banks of the river Llugwy :wink:.

    This means were much closer to Coed y Brenin, Penmachno and Antur Stiniog now, so we can save ourselves some mileage.

    In addition we're now also in the same town as the other 6 splitters that were too good for a YHA :wink:, so we can all have a laugh and go out for a meal / drink together on the Saturday night.

    As soon as I receive an e-mailed confirmation of our booking, I'll send everyone a PM with the booking ref so that we can all check-in when we arrive.

    Oh, one last thing - we need to bring our own towels, the bunkhouse doesn't provide them. If you forget them, you can hire them there (don't know the cost).
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    But we don't need to bring a sleeping bag? The photos look like the bedding is provided.... Posh hostel!
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  • Proutster
    Proutster Posts: 785
    bails87 wrote:
    But we don't need to bring a sleeping bag? The photos look like the bedding is provided....

    Pretty sure no sleeping bag is needed, but I'll check today.
    Posh hostel!

    What do you expect of me? Wooden wigwams?
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Proutster wrote:
    Posh hostel!

    What do you expect of me? Wooden wigwams?
    Well, i'd rather that than watch you pitch a tent....
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  • Proutster
    Proutster Posts: 785
    bails87 wrote:
    Well, i'd rather that than watch you pitch a tent....

    Fair point, well put :oops:
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    What's the plan for Saturday's riding? Penmachno? Coed y brenin? Both?
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  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,981
    Proutster wrote:

    What do you expect of me? Wooden wigwams?

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  • Proutster
    Proutster Posts: 785
    bails87 wrote:
    What's the plan for Saturday's riding? Penmachno? Coed y brenin? Both?

    See the other thread that I posted earlier today.
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  • YeehaaMcgee
    YeehaaMcgee Posts: 5,740
    By the way, I'm going to be working this weekend now, so I definitely won't be having a last minute "f**k it, I'm coming" moment.
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  • Proutster
    Proutster Posts: 785
    YeehaaMcgee wrote:
    By the way, I'm going to be working this weekend now, so I definitely won't be having a last minute "f**k it, I'm coming" moment.

    Thanks for letting us know, at least we won't be sat around waiting for you to arrive.

    Enjoy the work :D
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  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    Northwind is out of the office... See y'all tomorrow.
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  • DodgeT
    DodgeT Posts: 2,255
    Looking like its going to be a nice weekend for this! Everybody camera'ing up???
  • Proutster
    Proutster Posts: 785
    DodgeT wrote:
    Looking like its going to be a nice weekend for this! Everybody camera'ing up???

    You'll be pleased to know that I have 4, fully charged, batteries for the GoPro!!

    I'd charged them all fully when we got back from skiing but just thought I'd check them yesterday - 3 of them were virtually flat!! But they hadn't been connected to anything???

    Will also be bringing my iPad so that we can watch some of the raw, unedited, vids on Saturday evening + in the pub after Stiniog.
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  • DodgeT
    DodgeT Posts: 2,255
    We might have to up our game a bit on sunday peeps, danny bloody hart will be there!
  • compo
    compo Posts: 1,370
    By all account he is as thick as pig sh!t but generally a nice guy.
    Might try and flog you a tshirt
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  • DodgeT
    DodgeT Posts: 2,255
    Good weekend that guys, hope you all had fun today at stiniog and of course on the little xc run yesterday.

    Good to put some faces to names.

    When's the next one!?

    Oh, can confirm Danny seems a genuinely nice guy, had a good chat with him and had my picture with him. Was nice on the double black to hear "rider" to pull over only to be overtaken by him going at what can only be described as an obscene speed!
  • Richie63
    Richie63 Posts: 2,132
    Ha I'm back in one piece with Fatfiend

    Cheers to a well run trip - Nice one Mark.

    Some Pictures Andrew First
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    Bails
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    What we were riding
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  • lawman
    lawman Posts: 6,868
    Fantastic weekend chaps!! :D Thoroughly enjoyed it and could not have asked for better weather either, superb all-round capped off by an awesome day at Antor, will definitely be going back with uni soon!! Just tried to show my dad some of the stuff we did, the videos don't do it justice so much fun to ride!

    Big thanks to those who organised it, was nice to meet all you new folks too!
  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Richie63 wrote:
    Ha I'm back in one piece with Fatfiend

    Cheers to a well run trip - Nice one Mark.

    Some Pictures Andrew First
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    That's a great shot! And thanks for the one of me with my wheels on the ground :wink:

    Thanks all for another brilliant Cruddy weekend, couldn't have asked for better weather, trails or company, just a shame we didn't get to do Snowdon.
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    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."
  • fatfiend
    fatfiend Posts: 36
    For he's a jolly good fello ....etc - cheers for the organisation Mark and Dodge, and thanks for the great company. For those of you who witnessed it - that was the start and end of my short downhill career. Great to meet the faces behind the names and lookingh forward to another one, but less steep perhaps.................?
  • Proutster
    Proutster Posts: 785
    +1 to all of the above, a great weekend with good riding and good company. Really good to meet you all (some again & some for the first time).

    I'll get some editing done and post a couple of vids up ASAP, especially mine with chase cam where - for some unknown reason - my back wheel appears in view followed, rapidly, by the sky and then some slate :oops: :oops: :oops:
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  • oodboo
    oodboo Posts: 2,171
    Gutted I missed this but I was on the wrong side of the country to get there. If I just nipped out for the day the misses would have killed me.

    Anyone crash into Danny Hart?
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  • thekickingmule
    thekickingmule Posts: 7,957
    He was sat next to Northwind on the uplift, and I didn't even realise! I never saw him riding, so I can only presume he was always behind me ;)

    It was a fantastic weekend. Thanks Prout and Dodge for organising it, and thanks to Richie for lending me the bike, it made an enormous difference to my riding! Also, it's made me realise how much training I need to do before September!
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  • DodgeT
    DodgeT Posts: 2,255
    Me and Danny

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  • angry_bird
    angry_bird Posts: 3,787
    Nice, gutted I couldn't have come, fecking placements, looks and sounds like you guys had a right good time.
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  • Richie63
    Richie63 Posts: 2,132
    Some more photos to put faces to memories
    Bails the right way round (sorry about chopping your head)
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    Kickingmule
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    Proutster
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    Fatfiend
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    Lawman
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    Lawman
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  • lawman
    lawman Posts: 6,868
    Jeeeez could I look anymore retarded in those photos?! :lol:
  • DodgeT
    DodgeT Posts: 2,255
    And just incase you forgot who I am..

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    Some good piccies of the day here http://wayneshakell.smugmug.com/Sports
  • Richie63
    Richie63 Posts: 2,132
    lawman wrote:
    Jeeeez could I look anymore retarded in those photos?! :lol:

    Only if you were riding side saddle..........Oh you were!!
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