Gravel Union are telling me there is a gravel route from Glasgow to Cape Wrath. Book by David Wilson tells you where to go. Involves Obscura Mondo Cycling Club. They are also on Facebook the Obscura Mondo people. A Californian gives an account of the twelve days it took him to get to Cape Wrath. He packed heavy. But had meals in pouches that cost a fiver a go. Veers west of Inversnecky.
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His ride report mostly involved midges
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yes , quite a well know route with the bikepacking community , nice ride report here from last year
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It's more of a gpx file than an actual cycle route as I understand it. That's not a bad thing as long as folks know what they're up against.
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“It's more of a gpx file than an actual cycle route”
Presume someone has ridden it all(?)
Otherwise it’d be like planners/road engineers lines on maps which don’t always take topography into account!
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People have certainly travelled the line of it. Not sure if anyone has ridden a bike every metre of it.
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Thanks Grahamn, also the guy I was talking about on the Obscura Mondo. A califonian who swapped a moz net for a midge net in Callander. Did every metre. Think named Nimmie.
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@grahamn, your post gives Naomi’s account, she started at the top but knew she had failed in her setting of the fastest time as too wild to get ferry from Durness to Cape Wrath. Clearly she would have set the fastest time had the ferry been running. She also went in autumn so no mention of midge. A less rambling read as she did it in three days but was supported by her husband Charlie in the van. nimmie the Californian took the full 8 days then went home via Cairngorms moaning a bit about the inner loop,
At times both riders meet no one and suddenly they come across another cyclist also doing the route but in the other direction.
Naomi proof read her blog. One damn for dam but that might have been meant.
Is 90 per cent of our power now hydro?.
Maslov also mentioned by Naomi.
Both cyclists made use of the west highland way when there were no walkers on it
Route has highest road pass and highest train station and the church where the highlanders scratched their names on the glass after their villages were burnt in the clearances.
Nimmie mentioned the Bothie with the Pipe Kearvaig, see threads passim Naomi did not get onto Cape Wrath
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