Bear Bones Winter Bivvy
I had many great weekend trips during the first half of last year and have a lot of images that I didn't get around to posting online, aside from Instagram. So here's the first of a few quick posts to get those photos off my hard drive and into the world.
As well as the possibly better known Welsh Ride Thing (WRT) event in May, Stu at Bear Bones organises a similar but shorter and generally significantly colder and wetter event, in January - the Winter Bivvy. Graham and I decided to get the year off to a good start and so met up in a community centre car park in Llanbrynmair in mid-Wales... That's not as random as it sounds - thats where the event starts. Obviously.
With the WRT there is no fixed destination or route - you just navigate yourself around as many or as few of the 30-ish grid references that Stu provides as you want. The winter event is slightly different in that there is a fixed destination, but I think that we pretty much ignored that and didn't ride all that far at all.
Excuses were made about not having ridden much in the past few months, but it really didn't matter. We got to explore beautiful Welsh forest roads, camp on a riverbank and 'enjoy' the tussock trampling that always seems to be obligatory on a ride in mid Wales.
Next time, Matty's North York Moors overnighter.