Bike packing high above Drumochter
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- Опубликовано: 24 сен 2023
- Join me for a bikepacking trip into the Drumochter hills, the weather was a bit mixed but overall a successful autumnal trip out!
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‘A kind of hope’ by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
‘Adrift among infinite stars’ by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
Hi Tom, good to see you out and about again. I thoroughly enjoyed the video. Some very familiar terrain there for me, which encourages me to repeat my favourite loop again this coming winter. I can only agree it's been a bit of a weird summer. Mo and I have had a few challenges to deal with, which has impacted on our hill time. Give our best to your wife and hope you guys can get out and about again when she gets back from America. Stay safe and thanks as always for sharing the adventure, Dave
Thanks for the kind words Dave - its a great area as you well know - I hope you and Mo are doing ok, we will wait patiently for your return to the hills!!
Thanks for that Tom, good viewing for the soul.
It is... there's little better for the soul than being tucked away in mountain or glen .
Great to see you back out in another great video 🚴♀️ ⛰
All the best for you and Mrs HBS 👍
Thanks Tony!! Much appreciated!! ATB to you and yours as well.
@@hikebikescotland9121 cheers Tom!
Enjoyed your video,Cheers 👍
Cheers ubergeekable! - hoping to get out with a bit more regularly - fingers crossed!
Well done Tom, I enjoyed that, wishing you and your wife ATB, I've had a pretty tough year too, all the more reason to live the best life you can and do the things that take you to a happier place. Subbed 👍
Couldn't agree more vr_gamer, fingers crossed this year gets better for you from here on in..
Good to see another film Tom, my Fatbike mojo has been lacking this year with no small van for local stuff but we have been further afield in the bigger van that partner Glenda recently bought, but yeah you do a great job reporting on the ride as often just cycling is the main job to be doing! 😁👍
Cheers Bruce
Cheers Bruce!! Don't worry the mojo will return.. it always does... the snow and ice do it for me strangely enough!! - would love to get further afield but we only ever seem to find enough time for 1 night and the driving eats into the time significantly at times... maybe one day things will be a little less pressured timewise... ATB to you and Glenda
Excellent film and nice to see you out again. Best wishes to your wife. I’m yet to tackle the munros near Drumochter.
Thanks Glenda much appreciated - They say the Drumochter hills are boring!! - can't say I agree but then again we are limited with where we can go - evern with our fat bikes (as you well know!!) - ATB Tom
Hello Tom, enjoyed your trip very much as always. Love that area! And love the way you present it as you look almost bored cycling and pushing your bike high up but I know it had to be bloody hard work to make it up to that summit. Well done! Do you think it's doable to the bothy and then up north along the loch to A9 with dog trailer attached behind my bike? Thanks for another great film and all the best for more.🙂 Cheers Jonas
Jonas - Thanks for your comments! It is a tough old slog getting up these hills & mountains as you well know... I kinda enjoy that sometimes though :-) The section between Loch Garry and the bothy, ok a few things - there is 2 routes - a higher one that goes from a patch of land just a few meters from the 2 bridges slightly further up past the bothy and a lower option that goes past a house/building if you just go right and down after crossing the bridge. When we did it (from the loch Garry to bothy direction the wife did the lower route and I the higher one!! - so I haven't done both so not sure which one is best but they are both do-able. We did it in summer after a dry spell and I cycled the whole top route but there was still wet/boggy sections but managed on a fat bike ok. I think you would struggle on a normal MTB especially with the trailer but you would make it through eventually but I think you'd need to push a fair bit, additionally an extra challenge awaits at the loch Garry side with a small river crossing.. fairly straightforward with just a bike but I think you might need to take the trailer off.. shame as its only 5 meters from the road end!!, could be difficult in spate of course. All in all you could likely cross but I'd give yourself a full hour or so.. and it will be tough... but you three are used to that... There are bonus points available for taking the path 'less trodden' and not going via the bridges and straight pass the bothy, past a large old sheep pen and onto the road on the eastern side of Loch Garry, This does involve covering grassy ground (again was fine in the summer) and a largish river crossing, the advantage is then you have a road north straight to the A9 or head south and it loops upwards and round the back of Meall na Leitreach and then similarly back to the A9 and the cycle route (NC7) - we did this previously only at the highest point of the road left the track and summited the Corbett! not advisable for everyone but an option if you want to bag it (best on foot maybe and the return to the bike) - I'll paste a link from my komoot to see if you can see what I'm talking about.. www.komoot.com/tour/380456368 - as you say its a great area and I'll have to engineer another route or maybe redo the Corbett again!. Been enjoying your videos as well.. love the dogs and their very different personalities!! never watch one of your videos without laughing at somepoint :-) keep up the good work - ATB Tom
@@hikebikescotland9121 Thank you Tom very much. I have just studied the maps and your pictures and map you sent me in the link. If I go on my own with dogs I may do that more challenging option on east side of the loch. However I may drive first to Dalnaspidal and leave the trailer in there before driving down to Rannoch side to starting point. If we sleep in bothy dogs will be able to do the distance in two days and then I found the route on cycling routes and minor roads to cycle with trailer back to car, always tarmac and downhill most of it. That would mean I don't have to deal with trailer crossing tgose more difficult sections you mentioned. Thanks again and good luck with your MTB trips in the future🙂
Great video Tom. A fine camp and sunset. Good tae see ye back oot. Know what u mean about no getting out much. Weather has been gash this year. Impressive skyspace that. Think I've seen that before somewhere on the news or a documentary.
Aye is been a big bag opish weather wise... still I'm hoping to finish the year strong.. ever the optimist and all that!
Good stuff
Cheers Richmc.. it was a decent little outing... Hopefully not too long till the next one!!
Enjoyed that , new sub here 👍🏻🏕
Thanks OUTDOORALLY - much appreciated and may there be many more!
4:56 wouldn't mind playing classical guitar in there
Would be interesting acoustics for sure!!!
Would you say you needed a mountain bike or would a gravel bike have been an option?
I would say a mountain bike to be honest.. quite a lot of rocky bits and I think you'll need the low gears that an MTB usually has over a gravel bike... Having said that it's easier to push a lighter gravel bike so there is that!! Certainly there are bits you'll be able to cycle on a gravel bike.. I think it depends on what push to pedal ratio your happy with - ATB Tom