Beast of Burden - Climb - Bike Park Wales - 2021 BPW (Hardtail) 

Average Joe CLIMBS (!) the Beast of Burden on the Bird Zero 29er. A glorious summer Sunday at Bike Park Wales!! 29th Aug 2021 at BPW
About a 25-30 minute XC climb up! It was a very pleasant experience, birds singing me up, hardly a soul around as I set off up from the visitor centre around 9.00am. Just a few e-Bikers catching me up towards the top!
For the rest of the day I cut across to the firepaths about a third of the way, but as climbs go, it gets a thumbs up, especially for the reward of a great trail choice on the way down. Good job I have built my fitness up with a lot of big climbing XC days recently. Managed to get about 6 "up and downs" out of the day, which I would never have managed last year.
I have now done all of the non-Proline trails at Bike Park Wales.. (except for Enter the Dragon, which might as well be a proline to me!) Oh and bloody Popty Ping which ALWAYS seems to be closed (when i visit at least!!)