I suspect everywhere will be busy... all the obscure places will be full of people trying to avoid the crowds...
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CCE Overnight Capables
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Posted 4 years ago #
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I would potentially be up for this. I might do a bit of a more distant loop around as there seems to be a loop of about 40km or so from Blair Athol. What would the actual campside location be so I can figure out plan?
Finally get a chance to use my fork mounted supply cage things.
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@ARobComp
Great news. I've never been up Glen Tilt so I dinnae ken where the best pitch is, but I'd suggest Bedford Bridge/Falls of Tarf? NN983795.
Great prize if you ride out to Braemar for beer.
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@fimm, indeed...
Angie Brown of Aunty Scotch Beeb gleefully reporting the hordes of glampers poised to descend on the countryside as soon as...
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Surge in post-lockdown bookings by 'staycationers'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-53177216
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Have taken this suggestion to e-mail. Post if you want in!
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IWRATS - add us in to the bantz please.
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Not against being added in but well need bike refit and tent I fink also lift up there unless I cycle up
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@gembo
Can sort you for a tent. Reminds me I need the ground sheet of the two man replaced - better get on it!
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I've got a little gelert solo if anyone wants to borrow it.
I expect I'll get the train unless there is an abundance of space in the convoy. Blair Athol isn't terribly well served but its not far from Pitlochry.
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if you're going as far as bedford bridge, i'd push on a bit further to bynack lodge
more pitches and wild rhubarb
https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/perthshire/blair-atholl-bynack.shtml
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@bax
A great suggestion. But only five miles from the Linn of Dee?
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true that iwrats, but its not a heavily frequented thru route
from linn o' dee abdy's headed for derry lodge
or if taking white bridge route, its mtb's heading on to the lairig via corrour
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I shall put it to the crew. It's a good idea.
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I've had some fun in that bothy. Never cycled there.
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1) Sadly, the kind of person who wants to go to a 'closed' bothy in these times is also the sort of person to trash it in the process, leading to more serious (locks, nails, boards) closures. Much chat on the bothycentric side of fb.
2) I am now a two-tent man these days so can lend. Also have various bits I'd be happy to lend.
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@Sheeptoucher
Come along? @unhurt will hook you up.
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bothies are the jewel in the crown of harsh winter stravaiging
at all other times they should be shunned as irrelevant
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Cuh mon Bax San -there’s even a Bible and various orthodoxies and heresies
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This fell sergeant @bax is strict in his arrest.
@gembo we must talk of sinners and elect, heathens, kāfirūna and goyim.
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Looks like travel for this outing will be legal.
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Subscribing to the Book of Bax.
Am I understanding mid august for a date?
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Aye 15th.
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How's it looking on WhatsApp? 22 views on Ride With GPS, eh?
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We've been discussing mice, not sure the whatsapp group functions that well :D
Route looks good to me, I'll probably not do the extension round the back way. I'll be quite content to go up and back down Glen Tilt.
Its only about 10k from Pitlochry to Old bridge of Tilt which opens up a couple of extra train options over the less frequent service to Blair Athol
https://www.komoot.com/tour/210436864?ref=wtdPosted 4 years ago # -
Yes, was thinking about the wee road through Killiecrankie as a warm-up.
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That is assuming trains will be allowed to run even semi normally, they're still restricted to "essential" journeys which I doubt covers a bikepacking trip.
A little discriminatory if you don't drive, I can (broadly) make all the non essential trips I like now as long as I don't stay out overnight(!) but if like many you don't have the option to drive then you're still playing in the area your can active travel too.
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The whole thing depends on the situation. We've agreed to put @gembo on a Father Jack type sofa on the roofrack of the IWARTSmobile.
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I love my brick
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