Game: Name that road!

[Ming the Merciless]

It is not the road to Lochan na Lairige

 

[ColinJ]

99% sure this is Dartmoor, but I'm helplessly rubbish at this game and am unable to find the exact road.

YES....






... the other 1% is right!

Can you really see mountains in the distance from Dartmoor?


PS It isn't in Scotland either!

 

[MontyVeda]

I've seen the Cumbrian Mountains from most angles and don't think it's those. Scotland has been discounted (and Dartmoor!), so I'm thinking a view of Brecon or maybe the Black Mountains. it looks like the sort of place they filmed the Yorkshire scenes for An American Werewolf in London.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I've seen the Cumbrian Mountains from most angles and don't think it's those. Scotland has been discounted (and Dartmoor!), so I'm thinking a view of Brecon or maybe the Black Mountains. it looks like the sort of place they filmed the Yorkshire scenes for An American Werewolf in London.

Too dramatic for the Black Mountains I think.

 

[Alex321]

Too dramatic for the Black Mountains I think.

Yeah, that doesn't look any view I've seen of either the Beacons or the Black Mountains.

 

[ColinJ]

Yeah, that doesn't look any view I've seen of either the Beacons or the Black Mountains.

I am not sure without checking what mountains they are...

 

[Aravis]

Here it is, in a part of North Wales I've never been to:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.8...4!1scD7MbCcfF58rTfN6F0mp5Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

So the mountains are the ones behind Harlech, and a little digging reveals them as the Rhinogydd range.

 

[MontyVeda]

At least i guessed the right country

 

[Aravis]

Am I waiting for the go-ahead @ColinJ?

 

[ColinJ]

Here it is, in a part of North Wales I've never been to:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.8...4!1scD7MbCcfF58rTfN6F0mp5Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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So the mountains are the ones behind Harlech, and a little digging reveals them as the Rhinogydd range.

Well done. Over to you again!

I went to that area on a MTB/walking holiday with a friend of mine. We stayed at the holiday village at Bronaber. She wanted a rest day so I left her sunbathing and reading a book, while I headed off up that climb. If I had been on a road bike I would have carried on and done a full loop, but it would have been a bit much on the MTB.

[PS Sorry - fish and chips arrived while I was typing and I forgot to post!]

 

[Aravis]

Thanks @ColinJ. That was quite a puzzle; it looked extremely Scottish and it was hard to imagine that it wasn't. The nearest match I could find up there was the Glen Quaich road heading towards Loch Tay, but the mountains were never the right shape. North from Bwlch-y-Groes also has the right sort of look in places.

While waiting I've almost changed my mind about what to post, but whenever I've done that it hasn't gone so well. So here is the next one; a fine spot which I don't have my own picture of, but Google has done it proud. I'm confident some of you will have ridden here:

 

[MontyVeda]

National Cycle Route 81 between two places I'll have to spend a moment carefully learning to spell, let alone pronounce!



between Cwmystwyth and Rhayader.

It looks like an absolutely blissful place to ride

 

[Dogtrousers]

Pretty sure I've ridden there, but I think I can be forgiven for not recognising it immediately as it would have been over 40 years ago.

 

[Aravis]

Well done @MontyVeda, over to you.

Blissful is a good adjective, although struggling westwards into a wind might make you think differently. And there's plenty of high drama close at hand.

Pretty sure I've ridden there, but I think I can be forgiven for not recognising it immediately as it would have been over 40 years ago.

Did your first century take you that way?

 

[MontyVeda]

Thanks @Aravis. I figured you'd follow suit and go with a Welsh road too.

This one should be easy, especially if you've been following this thread from the start for a couple of years.
I've chosen an old street view image as more recent ones were a bit too cloudy.