CAMBRIAN WAY DAY 2
This is by far the hardest section of the 3 day route.
It crosses the Central Welsh Desert, so named due to the pathetic number of animals per hectare the area supports
This is high tussock grass moorland of around 330 metres altitude.
Happily there is a way through using old trackways, as goosestepping through it with a bike is exhausting . The army trained for the Falklands War up here. I remember them yomping around looking utterly shagged out.
TrackLogs Digital Mapping

If stream high use road

over bridge, turn L and back across stream via ford

turn L BEFORE bridge

Ford [bridge upstream]

Follow "route E" signs to Claerwen Dam

turn R into field before farmyard

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ESGAIR TRACK JUNCTION [turn L]
Take the left fork

BRYN DU TRACK JUNCTION
Turn right

BRYN DILIW FOREST GATE
After carefully negotiating the stream [ and again don't attempt it in flood] go through the bridleway gate and climb up the forest track to the forest road where you bear right and keep taking the right fork

R then L up grassy woodside lane
Right then left past the old homestead

L fork
Turn left and then pass the house and buildings on your left, uop the old grassy lane and turn left at the top

R fork
Go right

MINERS ARMS
Real Ale pub and B&B 4 day stopover
01974 282238

ROAD GATE
The commencement of tarmac, follow it

turn R in yard
Take the right lower track at the farm

ROAD JUNCTION
If you found the first day of 3 hard or you are doing it in 5 or 6 days you may consider heading straight on to Claerwen dam and missing this particular lump as there are no shops or anything else for that matter till you reach Pontrydygroes [Miners Arms 4 day stop] or the B&Bs near Llangurig[3 day option]
If you're feeling fine then go for it and turn left, it's a top route!

Follow cycle path
Through the sculpted gate on your left

CAMBRIAN WAY DAY 2
This is by far the hardest section of the 3 day route.
It crosses the Central Welsh Desert, so named due to the pathetic number of animals per hectare the area supports
This is high tussock grass moorland of around 330 metres altitude.
Happily there is a way through using old trackways, as goosestepping through it with a bike is exhausting . The army trained for the Falklands War up here. I remember them yomping around looking utterly shagged out.