Mountain biker on approach to the ‘Wayfarer’ pass in the Berwyn Mountains Wales

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Walter MacGregor Robinson was a cyclist and writer known as ‘Wayfarer’. One of his best-known exploits was a crossing of the bare and lonely Berwyn Mountains in north-east Wales in March 1919. Wayfarer and his companions crossed in deep snow, pushing their heavy fixed-gear bikes far more than they could ride and taking four hours to cover ten miles. On a modern mountain bike, and without the snow, it’s possible in an hour or less. The pass itself is now widely known, and not solely by cyclists, as ‘The Wayfarer’ and there’s a memorial to him at the top.

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