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At some point in the next few months I'm looking at riding from home in Inverness to Callander then back via the Badger Divide route. I've got great looking options from home to Tarfside but my knowledge runs out a bit after that. I'm not worried about how long it takes or how direct it is (within reason!) and I'd prefer it to be off-road as much as possible but I'm not averse to a bit of road if it makes more sense.
Any suggestions? Even just good bits of off-road that go in the right direction and can be linked up. Cheers.
You could do a bit of the Cateran trail which would take you to Blairgowrie. I’ve not ridden it but it looks a nice route.
Rob Roy Way is the obvious suggestion from Pitlochry.
I was looking at the RR way and thinking I might use it to pick up the BD at Killin rather than Callendar. It's the bit from Tarfside that's awkward but a bit of the Cateran might fill that.
It should be possible to cycle from Tarfside to Glen Isla, where you can pick up the Cateran trail.
Head along Glen Esk and cross the river at Dalbrack and head for Clash of Wirren, keep on into Glen Lethnot which is one of the nicer Angus Glens.
Ride west to the end of the tarmac road and aim for Birse Shades. The direct route via Mount Sned is rough singletrack. An alternative but longer route on LRT is via Hill of Berran, Ruragh and Hill of Glansie (older OS maps don't have the LRT's marked). From Birse Shades head south through Glen Ogil. My knowledge gets a bit more sketchy from here but I would suggest heading up Glen Prosen to Cermuir then cutting across via Drumshade, Glenmarkie to Kirton of Glenisla. I can provide GPX's of some of this if you like.
How you getting to tarfside - it's an odd place to get out of .
I assume your going fungle and not shoving over mt keen.
I'd be tempted to jump over 2 glens and get to glen muick and go over the bachnagairn and pick up enmacs route from there.
How you getting to tarfside – it’s an odd place to get out of .
Fungle Road from Aboyne just because I've never done it .
Fungle Road from Aboyne just because I’ve never done it
Wrong direction, I’d go the firmounth from Aboyne
Look for "the guard" in Birse. Go up from there.
Wrong direction, I’d go the firmounth from Aboyne
Well I've not done that either so that could work.
Thanks enmac that's just the kind of thing I was looking for. Wouldn't have worked it out myself as those landy tracks aren't on my OS maps