wales and the black mountain

good couple of days driving all over wales, finally got to drive tiff's hairpin on the Black Mountain.

Highlights of the trip

The hairpins out of the Rhonda Valley - A4061 - Spectacular and I got them empty.

B4560/B4348/B4352 Bwlch - Telgarth - Hay on Wye - Hereford - Miles and miles of perfect sweeping twisties - and very quiet.
B4560 - Beaufort - Bwlch - Mini Black Mountain - awesome, open hairpins - blah blah blah - epic.

B4355 - Knighton - Delfor(A483) - Open Hilly fast epic, felt sorry for the copper manning the speed gun in Delfor cos they must have heard me coming from miles and miles away - glad I hit thirty at the signs!!!!

B4391 - Tanent Valley up to Pale - The run up the side of the stunning mountain valley is a bit special - wide enough to overtake....well his paint should come off the wing!

Lastly the Black Mountain road - Was a shit drive to the south end of it but once on it....well worth it - much better road than the butterbubs which I drove last month - and then there is Tiff's hairpin which he always drifts around on fifth gear. - We did the corner proud Shame it had finally dried out - you could go a long way up that hill using the side window! (LSD!)

Tiff's hairpin

Top of the mountain

Near Hay on Wye

B4560

sunny salty

lovely sunny day on the log at salty, decent ground swell too.

A7

hells mouth

Tue - Anglesea flat at 9am went to Hells. Was pumping well overhead on the sets with a direct offshore wind.
Can't say I enjoyed it that much, shifting peak with no obvious place to sit and the set waves closing out unless you happened into just the right spot. Battle into the wind to get into them as well. Kind of reconfirmed my opinion that hells cant really handle that size. rhiw was a smallish close out as well.

got a handfull of waves but nowt to write home about, thought I was going to get under the lip of the first one but not to be. Good to be out in some solid groundswell though - felt totally comfortable.

cromer

surfed cromer on wednesday afternoon - it was truely terrible, glad I got in just to say i did, but jesus, there was nothing there and the little beach reef I was trying to surf had the most godawful rip, i couldn't stay with the peak - all a bit sad really.

tiny anglesea

very small but relaxed day at Anglesea

binky