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Follow Mike's journey into bikepacking,blending hard-won lessons with practical advice. Along the way, he sharesstories from some of the UK's most iconic routes, including the Highland Trail550, the Trans Cambrian and the Lakeland 300. At its heart lies his CylchdaithCymru (Welsh 550) ride around his adopted home of Wales. A naturalist, mountaineer and educator, Mikeweaves observations on landscape, land management and nature throughout hisjourney. Grinding up hills on a laden bike, he develops an intimaterelationship with one of our last overlooked wild spaces, the roadside verge,capturing it in evocative detail. On Mike's Welsh 550 route he gives us abike-borne view of Wales: from the limestone-built Victorian resort ofLlandudno beneath the Great Orme, to the wild Worm's Head at the tip of theGower, just beyond Wales's second city, Swansea - and back again. The routeheads south down the west side of Walesbefore returning up the eastern side, taking in encounters with of slatequarrying, coal mining, forestry and agriculture. In the quiet expanses of central Wales, whereservices are few and far between, chance encounters become meaningful. Mikemeets few people, but each has a story to tell. This is a bikepackingtravelogue for our times. The book includes sketch maps, routesummaries, reflections on lessons learned, pen-and-ink illustrations, and anindex.