Finished a 11 day trip through the highlands

Hi there,

I just finished my 12 day trip through the highlands with mostly wild camping, 870 km, appr. 15k mtrs altitude.

I would highly recommend the tour and thought maybe it is of interest for anyone, as I tried to combine a few well known routes.

The tour offers mainly off road and a fair part of trail riding, amazing views, met a lot of lovely people and enjoyed the Scottish hospitality.

Basically followed Badger Divide up to Loch Rannoch then the path up behind Ben Alder looped into the Caingorms where I did a variation of the outer loop with a hike a bike up to Beein a Bhuird (without my stuff), continued back on the Badger Divide and followed Affric Kintail as of Drumnadochit (I rode road on the lower part up to the lochs as I wanted to speed up with respect to bad weather) then a loop on Skye via the Sligachan pass. I had pretty bad weather on Skye so I canceled my original plans to go over the fairy pools.

I think it may be more beneficial to do the Caingorms loop counter clockwise, as I climbed a lot on trails.

The pass on Skye is epic but the cars are annoying as hell.

I posted a few pictures and the route and will post a few more in Instagram (let me know if anyone is interested).

Open to questions.

Ride on ✌️