Touring Scotland

Talking of Scottish rain, I added a weekend of touring onto the end of a family holiday and did the top half of the Drovers trail last weekend, cutting across at Strathtay to rejoin the route there. I'd highly recommend it, though as it got wetter it became more character building than actual fun. But there are some great sections on there. Camped next to an old stone circle above Pitlochry on the first night. Second night I stumbled across the Allt Scheicheachan bothy just as I was despairing of finding a flat/dry enough camping spot. Midges were horrendous by this point too, so was a good choice.
It's such a pleasure touring in Scotland where wild camping is encouraged and people seem generally to accept that being outdoors doing stuff is a good thing (done a lot of riding on the South Downs lately where this very much isn't the case).
Anyway, some photos which don't really convey how hard the wet bits were - was less inclined to get camera out while manhandling bike across a stream while being attacked by midges.
There was a point where I spent half an hour looking for a footpath, before realising it had turned into a stream and that was why I couldn't see it.

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