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I did a wee bit of this (Aberfeldy to Glen Almond) earlier in the week on a bike packing trip. It was very nice. Can anyone offer any comment on the rest of it?
Ta.
Do it Eastbound or have a shitty push up from Aberfeldy.
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/rob-roy-way-winter-misery-rides/
Do it Eastbound or have a shitty push up from Aberfeldy.
Or just ride up the road?
Not the Rob Roy Way then?
I bet you'd get the ferry to miss the best bit of the WHW too.....
Not the Rob Roy Way then?
Wouldn't bother me in the slightest. If I'm out to have fun, and a section looks like not fun I'm happy to skip it.
I'm still waiting to hear how you got on with the SLNT the "wrong" way. I can sense a theme developing here 🤣
I actually got lost trying to follow some forest tracks instead of the SLNT so I missed some of the bit between Dores and Inverfarigaig. I'm still telling people I rode the SLNT though just to bug you... 😉
But seriously, thanks for the link about the RRW.
The ferry misses the best bit of the whw ?
Where is the ferry in Glencoe ?
Especially interested in the wee section between Lochan Breachlaich and Ardeonaig, there's a suspicious 2km 'gap' between the landrover track and the Activity Centre that the OS show as a single dotted line.
It's short enough that it wouldn't be a show stopper but I'd be unpopular if I led some roadie pals on a 'gravel' ride then dragged them down 2km of muddy hiking trail...
MattOAB must know that bit well.
As ever, geograph is your friend...  http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5195897
Fool me once Geograph, shame on you! Fool me seven or eight times, shame on me...
Fair enough actually, for a section that short those photos give you the jist of it, looks like it could be slippy and soggy underfoot and maybe a couple of burn crossings, so could be a bit tentative on slick tyres, but at least it's downhill...
I wimped out of that section to Ardeonaig on a recent ride (I had time constraints and it was a long ride) and did the NCN from Glen Ogle to killin then the road to Ardtalnaig. It was really ace.
If it was me I wouldn't bother with the south Loch Tay stuff.
Head into Killin, Glen Lochay, waterboard road to Loch Lyon and down Glen Lyon to Bridge of Balgie, Fortingall, Aberfeldy.
Single track roads with no traffic and stunning scenery. Been that way from Stirling to Pitlochry and back many times. Also took an experienced CTC (Cycling UK) touring group that way in a loop from Aberfeldy, including the Ben Lawers road, and they said it was the best day's cycling ever.
The bit behind Ardeonaig isn't *that* bad - mucky farm track becomes open grassy hill (aim for near the trees), a few hundred metres of boggier ground (don't use old sunken track bed) and then hydro road is a winner.
Can get really wet at end of winter or week of rain, but usually a Ziggy route sticking to slightly higher bits works.
My old offroad commute....
My description was Ardeonaig -> Breachlaich direction
Crispin makes a good point - there is better riding locally. If going West->East then drop down the side of Auchmore gorge for some fun single-track...then use the (lovely) loch road.
I've been wanting to climb the road climb to Lochan Breachlaich for a while now, but don't like out and backs, so the Ardeonaig extension seems natural, will just warn peeps well in advance of the 2km boggy section. We'll all have guards at least.
Matt, have you ever attempted to cross over to the Loch Lednock landy tracks from the summit of the hydro track? Looks like another 2km of heather bashing to then descend to Comrie...
Yes - and you are right it is quite a hump of boggy moorland up over the shoulder of Rhuadh Mheall (sp?), but not *that* far again. The track ends are accurate map vs reality. There are a couple of quad routes up Rhuadh Mheall area as well - just boggy though.