Guided Mountain Bike Holiday - Celtic Crossing

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Holiday Highlights

Challenging trails and epic riding through the Highlands
Relaxing at the end of each day whisky in hand
Following in the footsteps of Viking settlers
Riding mountain passes few bikers ever visit
Ascending the Corrieyairack Pass with views down to the Great Glen
Arriving tired but truimphant in the historic city of Stirling

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Day	Description	Distance	Ascent	Descent	Meals
1	Saturday - Arrival into Stirling and transfer to Bettyhill	Non Cycling Day
2	Sunday - Bettyhill to the Crask Inn	47 Miles / 76 Kms Approx.	1050 Metres		B L
3	Monday - Altnaharra to Invershin	39 Miles / 62 Kms Approx.	670 Metres		B L
4	Tuesday - Invershin to Beauly	59 Miles / 95 Kms Approx.	1550 Metres	1570 Metres	B L
5	Wednesday - Beauly to Fort Augustus	45 Miles / 73 Kms Approx.	1400 Metres		B L
6	Thursday - Fort Augustus to Dalwhinnie	33 Miles / 53 Kms Approx.	1280 Metres	970 Metres	B L
7	Friday - Dalwhinnie to Killin	54 Miles / 87 Kms Approx.	1530 Metres	1790 Metres	B L
8	Saturday - Killin to Stirling Castle	40 Miles / 63 Kms Approx.	750 Metres	850 Metres	B L

Meals: B = Breakfast L = Lunch D = Dinner | Please keep in mind the distances and ascent information provided are intended to be indicative and may vary from the actuals due to accommodation changes or when compared on different GPS devices and software

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Holiday Information

This ultimate place-to-place MTB trip is aimed squarely at fit and experienced riders. A mountain bike holiday of the very highest calibre, a truly epic Scottish Highlands journey stretching from the extreme north coast through glens and over mountain passes to arrive in the heart of Scotland at the Wallace monument in Stirling. You need to be comfortable riding difficult terrain in remote areas and spending long days in the saddle. If this sounds like you, this adventure will be a highlight of your mountain biking career!

This trip builds on years of experience guiding mountain bike groups in Scotland, so you can relax and concentrate on enjoying the scenery and biking. Our route stretches over 300 miles in total and uses a wide variety of trails. There will be challenging singletrack winding through the mountains, old drove roads following the valley floors and easy rolling forest tracks. This is wilderness riding at its very best, but wherever possible our support vehicle will be close by to provide snacks and drinks as well as our renowned picnic lunches.

On our first day's riding we work our way up from the coast to get to some proper mountain riding as we skirt the majestic munro Ben Klibreck. For our second day we head south through the forests of Strath Tirry and along Loch Shin to reach Bonar Bridge on the Dornoch Firth.

Once we are in to the swing of things the days and trails come thick and fast. We pedal further into the Highlands around Loch Ness and the Great Glen before tackling the spectacular Corrieyairack Pass. From this high point we drop down to the banks of the River Spey famous for salmon fishing and whisky distilleries.

We use some stunning tracks running around Loch Ericht and Loch Rannoch to get us through to our last overnight stop at Killin where we can celebrate with a dram or two. The last day is a relatively flat gentle spin along Glen Earn to reach the monument to William Wallace just outside Stirling.

The arrival point for the trip is Stirling train station and from there we transfer to your initial accommodation at Bettyhill. We'll ride all the way back to Stirling at the end of the trip where you can clean up before jumping on the train back home or collecting your car.

For more information download our trip notes

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Holiday Feedback

The guides as always go above and beyond!

The reason I keep returning to Skedaddle is that all I have to do each day is ride, eat and sleep. Everything else is taken care of! The guides as always go above and beyond all that is asked of them.

The whole team was excellent and they look after everybody very well. The long day from Glengarry to Killin is probably the best but closely followed by Beauly to Fort Augustus. The variety of riding on both these days is fantastic.

I have been on this holiday before but the riding was as good as ever and also there was a very nice group of people. As always on the Scotland trips the lunches provided by the guides were excellent.

Michael, Wakefield
Superb..

Really superb. A wonderful ride and the enthusiasm of the guides was perfect. Excellently planned and set up. Steve is a great character and a fantastic leader. Couldn’t ask for more. Can I do the Celtic Crossing again now, please?!

James, Bucks
Best cycling holidays available!

A fabulous holiday as always. It was great to ride with Steve again…. Tony was great fun and a superb guide as usual. Tom stepped in at short notice and did a brilliant job. I only go with Skedaddle as I know that I’m getting the best cycling holidays available.

Simon, Hereford
We were looked after very well!

As usual we were looked after very well. We only had to think about the biking. At the end of the day our bikes were racked/stored by the guides and in the morning the bikes were ready and lubed! Much appreciated. The journey from Bettyhill to Stirling we consider a huge achievement and both of us (me and Andrew) thoroughly enjoyed it.

Steve did a good job of keeping us going bearing in mind the timescales – Tony led us over some of the more wild and difficult terrain to Crask Inn and Ben Alder and we had complete confidence in him. Always calm, collected and cheerful and very good at instilling belief in the clients. A pleasure to be with. Anne always happy to help with anything and encouraged the last person (usually me) to make it to the end. Such a happy soul and her riding abilities are awesome.

Bridget, Yorkshire
A truly epic trip!

I have done a number of Skedaddle point to point trips in Scotland and abroad (including road). This is among the very hardest trips….A truly epic trip with a really wild adventure feel to it (I did not think this was still possible in Scotland having seen so much of it already), very quiet trails with days where we did not see another mountain biker. This should really appeal to people who have done the Scotland Highlands Coast to Coast with Saddle Skedaddle and who are looking for a fresh challenge.

Jim, Glasgow
A beautiful place to ride!

How Steve and Tony found some of these trails to put this new trip together is beyond me. A great team that ensures everything is taken care of.

Favorite days were…Beauly to Fort Augustus and Laggan to Killin. Both long days but great variety of tracks and surfaces. Some of the scenery is breathtaking – a beautiful place to ride.

There are cheaper companies than Skedaddle but they very rarely match the professional service of Skedaddle. To have a ratio of 1 guide per 3 guests speaks volumes. Nothing is ever too much trouble for the guides. They are a great team. Ann fitted in very well and was very helpful. A good addition to the team.

Mike, UK

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