Sorry to jump the thread.. Has anyone done any of the Caledonia Way? http://www.sustrans.org.uk/ncn/map/route/route-78 I'm looking for a short trip (Friday to Sunday) to do with my mum in April/May. I recently bought her a second hand road/light tourer, and she's forever begging me to take her on my next trip, so I figured I'd plan one for her birthday.
I was thinking of getting the sleeper up from London on a Thursday evening, arriving on Friday morning to begin the route south. I don't intend on taking her the whole way down to Campbeltown, so we'd probably just follow the route from Inverness down to Oban, and hop on a train back to Glasgow from there. That's about 100 miles in total, which is probably enough for her, given that she hates hills, hasn't done much more than 60miles in one go, or ever ridden with kit..
Should we expect crazy hill climbing? And is it easy to find camping spots on that route without going too out of the way?
Sorry to jump the thread.. Has anyone done any of the Caledonia Way? http://www.sustrans.org.uk/ncn/map/route/route-78 I'm looking for a short trip (Friday to Sunday) to do with my mum in April/May. I recently bought her a second hand road/light tourer, and she's forever begging me to take her on my next trip, so I figured I'd plan one for her birthday.
I was thinking of getting the sleeper up from London on a Thursday evening, arriving on Friday morning to begin the route south. I don't intend on taking her the whole way down to Campbeltown, so we'd probably just follow the route from Inverness down to Oban, and hop on a train back to Glasgow from there. That's about 100 miles in total, which is probably enough for her, given that she hates hills, hasn't done much more than 60miles in one go, or ever ridden with kit..
Should we expect crazy hill climbing? And is it easy to find camping spots on that route without going too out of the way?