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Planning a MTB themed holiday with the Family at the end of next May finishing up in Fort William to watch the World cup. I quite fancy a day of guiding riding around Torridon. Has anyone used a guide that they would recommend?
Can I ask what the guide is for. Is it:
1) TO choose a route for you.
2) To navigate you around that route.
3) To pick up the pieces if you have an accident
If it's number 1 then I'd recommend doing the Annat achnashellach route yourself. No need for a guide IMHO.
If it's number 3 then fair enough, get a guide.
A bit of all three mostly 2 as though not so worried about number 3 unless all of us crash at the same time.
Its mostly I don't know the area, the trail or how well marked out it is etc. I have Never been on a guided ride before and fancied just turning up and following someone without spending to much time looking at a map and a GPS etc.
I probably could do it myself and may end up doing so depending on what the cost is.
I'd recommend Tom Hutton at https://mtbguiding.co.uk/ if he happens to be in the vicinity. He's based in Wales but is often up in Torridon and is very knowledgable about the area.
I would have thought that hiring a guide for a day in such a remote place could work out pretty expensive . The Annat Achnashellac route is pretty easy to follow but you are out in some remote areas where you can't always get a phone signal and the weather can be very challenging . A fairly straightforward ride is to drive to Kenmore and take the old coffin road to Applecross , lunch in the walled garden then do the same route in reverse to get back to the van . A brief search on line will give you all the route info that you need .
Wildbike are up there too occasionally
Navs not hard but I don't like being up on my todd in case my talent runs out.... and it's not got far to run either
Nav in the area is quite easy tbh you can't really go wrong for long, the remoteness in the case of injury or breakage is more of a concern, assuming you don't head out in foul weather. You could try Jules Fincham at Cyclewild.
http://www.cyclewildscotland.co.uk/
I'd also recommend Tom Hutton. Had a great two days with him and Steph I'm the peaks this summer.
Thanks for the responses given me a bit to think about.