If weather is more favourable than not I plan at Easter to head up to Tyndrum to ride last years Highland Trail 440 route.

Plan is to set off on Good Friday morning and take roughly 4 ish days .. maybe 5 if weather is nice or photo opportunities plentiful.

Would be great to have some company for some if not all of it :)

I had Cairngorm loop planned with a friend at Easter, now you're putting ideas in my head...!

well I just hope weather is dry ish :)

I wish I could do that - Easter is also wife's birthday and our wedding anniversary so little or no chance of being allowed out then. However I suspect your pace is a bit beyond mine anyway...

What does the Highland Trail 440 route look like?

About 20% shorter than this one :)


http://www.highlandtrail.net/

Cheers

I am shooting for a finish not a record so if anyone is interested don't worry about the pace .. worst thing that can happen is it takes a little longer than expected and I have to spend more time on my bike than in an office ... i'll cope

RobMac - I've got the route and PDF maps for the HTR430 if you want them - just send me a PM for the link. I'd rather not share openly as it's from Memory Map so I don't know the licencing restrictions.

However, in simple terms, cut the top loop out of the HTR550 and you're pretty much there.

I just had to check when Easter was, but I'm definitely interested.

Plan is to travel up Thursday night or early Friday morning and can pick anyone up between Newcastle and Tyndrum if on the way

Well I'm in Leeds so probably would have to drive up. What time were you thinking of setting off Friday morning?

Would be good to be moving by 10am so adjust time needed to leave home accordingly :)

... alternate is to get there Thursday night and start straight away bivi down the trail after a few hours riding

Look out for my bike tracks as ill be heading up around the 7th April to ride the route shame im not off later in month i would of joined u.

Look out for my bike tracks

Reckon they might have been scoured from the surface of the earth by then ... or even by the following day

Anyone interested ?

paul78 wrote:Anyone interested ?

Yeah, I'm sticking with cairngorm loop as that's what I agreed to first with my friend; otherwise I reckon I would have swapped plans. Enjoy yourself!

Postponed due to deciding to go to Israel instead :)