Fans and competitors alike will once again descend on North Wales for the 2015 Wales Rally GB this November. The award winning event that just keeps getting better and better will see it’s third year of hosting the concluding round of FIA World Rally Championships. This isn’t just a motorsport spectacle taking in some of the world’s finest rally stages, ...
It’s Sunday in Autumn with surprisingly good weather. Not blue skies, but for Wales it was good enough for me. I’d like to say I got up at the crack of dawn, but that wasn’t the case either. It wasn’t just a case of getting the bike out (which I borrowed off my brother) and going for a ride either. ...
Nestled alongside the A5 near Cerrigydrudion is a hidden gem of North Wales attractions. In this adventure rich area, not too far from the likes of publicity laden attractions such as Zip World and Surf Snowdonia, sits Glan y Gors Park home of GYG Karting and we have to say it has us smitten. We’d been karting before of course, ...
James Hartley runs the North Sea divers page on Facebook and has 10 years experience as a Diver. His log book of UK dives is as varied as any for his experience level and he loves the North Wales coast. James was good enough to take time out to tell us a bit more about Wreck Diving and share some of ...
With North Wales being so diverse, it’s great to just browse through recent postings on social media sites taking a look at what different people are up to in the North Wales area. Every now and then a user will catch the eye and make for an interesting article on www.extremenorthwales.co.uk and that’s precisely how we stumbled across James Crook. ...
Back in early 2014 Chris Mayers and I (Kevin Merrey) started hatching ideas and plans for mini adventures that we could realistically achieve considering we both have young families and busy lives. Neither of us are unaccustomed to adventure and outdoor pursuits. Chris has been to Everest Base Camp and climbed Kilimanjaro, as well as completing the 3 Peaks Challenge ...
OpenCrag is a group of committed photographers who post photos and videos about their passion across a number of social media platforms. Their regular posts have caught our eye and so of course when we noticed their exploits in North Wales recently, we just had to get in touch with them. Andy Myers got back to us for the following ...
It’s an unlikely setting for a surfing spectacular. Sitting Approximately 7 miles in from the coastline, nestled amongst the grey slate hills and mountains of Snowdonia, Surf Snowdonia is about to welcome the most creative surfers from all over the world to it’s Red Bull Unleashed event. Red Bull have spotted what we all knew quite some time ago, that ...
Round 6 – September 19/20th Antur Stiniog, Gwynedd in Wales. Round 6 of the British Downhill series comes to Antur Stiniog, Gwynedd on the 19th and 20th of September. The final stage of the 2015 Series will see competitors from all age ranges pushing themselves to the limit to grab not just the glory of the prize money on offer ...
RUARIDH CUNNINGHAM WINS RED BULL HARDLINE Red Bull Hardline with Jeep returned to the hills of Mid-Wales this weekend to take on Dan Atherton’s beast of a course that proved to be bigger and more technical than anything ever seen before in downhill mountain biking. Progression was once again the word on everyone’s lips as the riders spent the majority ...