Lake Bala Run - 14th August 2005 - Pics and Feedback time!!!

[lukeybabe]

I know it is a little late in the day and not much notice for a run, but we thought we would start a seoerate thread for this run, instead of the useual place on the North Wales MINI2 thread.

Run Details
90% of the run will be in Snowdonia National Park and will be starting from Welshpool before heading over to Bala via Lake Vyrnwy.

Once we leave Welshpool we head to Lake Vyrnwy, where we will have a breif stop on the dam for pics and what not.

After leaving here we head around the shouth shore of the lake until we reach the Hinant Pass at the north end of the lake, which will take us up and over the mountains and back down into Bala.

We will have a stop in Bala for lunch, where their are loads of pubs and what not to choose from.

After lunch we follow the south shore of Lake Bala before once again climbing back up into the surrounding mountains where we will have another quick stop for more pics and what not, before descending back downinto Dinas Mawddwy.

We now head through Dolgellau and over to Barmouth Bay before heading up the coast to Harlech, where we will have our final catch up stop and possibly a quick ice cream!!

From Harlech we head past Llyn Trawsfynydd and Llyn Celyn back to Bala, where the run will finish.

Those people that made the Lakes & mountains run back in January will recognise a few roads, and I hope you don't mind us using them Mr Goonery, but they are just too good to miss out!!

The run takes in some of the very best roads and scenery in North Wales, and there is a general mix of little single track lanes in very rural areas to A & B roads, so hopefully a bit of everything for everyone.


Meeting Point and Time
This will be the main car park in Welshpool, which is found just off Mill Lane/Church Street, below is a map and a Multimap Link, we will be aiming at leaving here at 10:00.

Multimap Link

There will also be a small convoy of us coming down from the chester area, if you coming down from the north then you are more then welcome to join us, we will be meeting at The Cheshire Cat Pub and will be leaving there at 08:30, just let me know if you plan on joining us here so we don't leave without you!!

Run Route

Pace Notes

http://northwalesmini2.com/BalaPaceNotes.doc

Confirmed Runners

1) Lukeybabe

2) Interceptor

3) Stelly

4) Wedi Mynd (+1)

5) Yorkie Blue (+1)

6) Beastmaster (+Peanut)

7) Boothy (+1)

8) Mendel Williams (+his gang!!)

9) LYD (+1)

10) Captain

11) MINImat (+1)

12) Restyle

13) A.J.

14) orb (+lil'orb)

[Wobert]

Me Me Me!

[Shorty]

Can you put me down as a maybe?

[lukeybabe]

Quote: Originally Posted by Shorty

Can you put me down as a maybe?

Sure can!

[captain]

looks good

i need another day out in wales i will try keep date free

[lukeybabe]

Quote: Originally Posted by captain

looks good
i need another day out in wales i will try keep date free

I will put you down as a maybe for now then, and hopefuly we will see you on the day.

[lukeybabe]

Heres a few pics I took today from a quick rece run.

As you can see the weather was great!!!

[stu2]

Maybe Maybe......

[yorkie blue]

Hi Luke
Long time since i was on Mini2
I agree with Captain a jolly out in wales is long over due
Put us on ya list for this one (Yorkie Blue+1) YEEEES PLEASE
Ps...
Luke do u have any of the mini2.com stickers left,the etched glass ones,(1 more required)
Yeeeees Please for a LADY i know
Thanks
Yorkie Blue

VW Why!!!!
Please think again

[lukeybabe]

Quote: Originally Posted by yorkie blue

Luke do u have any of the mini2.com stickers left,the etched glass ones,(1 more required)
Yeeeees Please for a LADY i know
VW Why!!!!
Please think again

Why Yeeeessssssssss!!!!
I am sure I can find another etched glass window sticker for a laaadddyyyy!!!

When things stop breaking & falling off the MINI, I will re-consider keeping it!!
At the moment something is going wrong every week, this weeks breakage is the alarm, which has delveloped the fault of going off at roughly 3am every morning, which has resulted in me having to clear out the garage keeping it locked up in there whilst leaving the car unlocked, just to stop the alarm going off and waking all the neighbours up.
God knows how many times it goes off during the day in the car park at work!!

I won't bore you with all the details, but I am now dealing personaly with the Corparate Customer Services Manager of the BMW Group UK trying to get things sorted.

So its Mk5 Golf GTI time come September/October!!!

[Ian Clark]

OMG I've just come back from Barmouth today . Drove a whole bunch of roads around Dolgellau and the other places mentioned below...

will see what I can do.

I can vouch that these roads ROCK !! having JUST driven 150 miles around them

[Wobert]

Luke,

Can I suggest you revert your font colour back to white on the first post......using the std M2 format, it's virtually unreadable!

Robert

[lukeybabe]

Quote: Originally Posted by wobert123

Luke,
Can I suggest you revert your font colour back to white on the first post......using the std M2 format, it's virtually unreadable!
Robert

Well don't know whats happening there, I use MINI2 Blue, you see and it was fine on that, so I have now chnaged the text to white and you can't read it in MINI2 blue now!!!
Its supposed to change the text color itself to match!

Never mind, those MINI2 Blue users will have to flick back to black for now!!

[lukeybabe]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ian Clark

OMG I've just come back from Barmouth today . Drove a whole bunch of roads around Dolgellau and the other places mentioned below...
will see what I can do.
I can vouch that these roads ROCK !! having JUST driven 150 miles around them

I will put you down as a maybe then Ian.

[oRb]

Hi Luke

Could you put me down as a maybe too. Pretty sure I'll be able to make it.

Rob