I'm travelling to and from Orkney in a few weeks on a family trip and fancy a bit of a detour through the "Flow Country" en route either to or from the ferry. Likely to take a gravel bike and not looking for anything too epic in terms of distances as I'll have to coordinate with crossing times and family things either way.
Rough area = between Lairg/Bonar and Gills Bay/Scrabster, happy with cruisey links to Inverness if time permits. Probably roughly linear north/south or vice versa. Other interests = birding, headwinds and biting insects. Does anyone have any routes they could recommend?
there are some long estate roads that run inland and north from Dunbeath ( first on tarmac to breamore lodge??) on the A9 I have always wanted to investigate. Looks like you can use them for a loop onto the A9 south of Scrabster Never ridden them tho
Thanks TJ, I like the mysterious "phone box at the end of the world" marked on Google maps.
NO problem. If you do ride any of it report back please. Its been on my list for a while
You can check out the tracks on Geograph
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5795898
If you do ride any of it report back please. Its been on my list for a while
Will do @TJ. I've used geograph loads, and with that and Strava heat maps I've not come up with more than a couple of obvious options, neither of which likely fit with the timetable unless a very early start. But will keep scouring the maps...