The premise of Wilderness Scotland's Coast to Coast trip is simple enough: Cross the country on a mountain bike. On this weeklong, 249-mile journey, up to eight clients pedal west from Aberdeen. By the afternoon of day one, riders bank singletrack turns through ancient pine forests and fog-cloaked fields of purple heather. Nights are spent in century-old inns where dinners are capped with a choice of way too many locally distilled Scotches. Three 30-plus-mile days prep riders for the grind up 2,500-foot Corrieyairack Pass and, at journey's end, a long, gentle descent to a lighthouse overlooking the Island of Skye and the Inner Hebrides at Ardnamurchan Point. Departures in May, July, and September; $1,430; wildernessscotland.com
Abernethy National Nature Reserve in Cairngorms National Park, Scotland Photographer: Courtesy of Wilderness Scotland
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A great adventure indeed, by any standards. We rode across scotland Sept 2010 and throughly enjoyed it. It was everything we expected and then some. The scenery is magical, the riding was sublime and the locals friendly, often keen to entertain you for the evening. We travelled with www Scotland Mountain Biking com and would thoroughly recomend them, everything a guiding company should be.
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