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Gwydir Mawr

Mountain Biking · Wales

400

XP

about 3 h 3 min riding

Difficult
24.8 km
Loop
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600 m

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Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.

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Steep ride

Some very steep ground — marked on the map.

Climb

641 m

Drop

645 m

Highest

318 m

Lowest

81 m

Which way round

Anticlockwise: Climbs 13% for 400 m early on, comes down 18% for 380 m midway.

Clockwise: Climbs 18% for 380 m midway, comes down 13% for 400 m near the end.

A loop climbs and descends the same ground either way round. Waymarked trails are signed one way — follow the signs on the ground.

Main climb: km 0.0–3.4, from 87 m to 276 m.

How the 24.8 km splits

Flat

7.5 km

Climbing

8.9 km

Steep climbing (10–15%)

0.4 km

Descending

7.0 km

Steep descending (10–15%)

0.5 km

Very steep descending (15%+)

0.4 km

Link it with other walks

Gwydir Bach

Starts here too · Shares 6.9 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 20.6

9.1 km

Llyn Parc trail

Shares 1.4 km of path · meets at km 0.8, 1.2, 1.9…

10.1 km

Hafna Miners trail

Shares 1.0 km of path · meets at km 4.1, 4.4, 5.3

3.4 km

Lady Mary's trail

Starts here too · Shares 0.6 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 0.8, 1.2

2 km

Forest Lakes Walk

Shares 0.5 km of path · meets at km 7.5, 8.3

4.2 km

Capel Curig community pink

Shares 0.2 km of path · meets at km 12.2

2.2 km

Pen yr allt trail

Shares 0.2 km of path · meets at km 15.8, 18.1, 18.5…

7.1 km

Marin link

Crosses at km 2.8, 20.5

0.1 km

Cyffty mine trail

Crosses at km 9.4

0.3 km

Swallow falls trail

Crosses at km 12.9, 13.9, 14.1

3.1 km

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