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Cycling the wilds

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A week off and the weather took a break from torrential rain, rushing through a day of warm sunshine before the next attempt by autumn to steal the show early. Already, at the end of June, the bracken is on the turn but on this quiet Tuesday morning as I drove up the road to Attadale, the Longitude in the back, the clouds were preparing to settle down in a calm blue sky and take a welcome rest from the endless storms that seem to be a feature of the weather now.

Travels with Fatty

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Not a signal, not a sound, not a person save the unceasing roar of the sea.

applecross mtb loop

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

It seems the north west has inherited the weather from the Caribbean as we've had about a month of wall to wall sunshine and barely any precipitation, although it's been tempered by a bitingly cold east wind that's kept the Cuillin white. It was in these conditions that Penguin and I headed across the Bealach na Ba road which goes up to about 2000 feet and is a great candidate for a Matt Munro job. Not quite the same number of hairpins but you get the idea.

Our destination was Applecross and a fantastic romp cross country on manageable singletrack to Kenmore on the old coffin road and back by the coast road. So we parked just before the bridge across the River Applecross and cycled up Srath Maolchaluim on the landrover track. The Gaelic name for Applecross is A'Chomraich (ih-chom-a-reech) and means The Sanctuary, from the days when St. Maelrubha founded a monastery in 673 and had links with Ashaig on Skye.