Completed the NC500 Friday night, finishing in Inverness at Midnight! Bike packed and wild camped (with the exception of two campsites) the whole route. It was challenging and the weather was almost certainly against me! Well worth doing but if ever I took the route again I would miss out most of Durness to John O Groats and John O Groats down to about Dunbeath, probably take the road down to Altnaharra instead, after Durness. Found it very bleak and uninteresting along the top and down the East Coast, until back into the scenery. It’s all about the West Coast. It was cold all week, never really above 6/7 degrees and only 3 or 4 in the rain and rain it did, last Tuesday was a write off weather wise, I have never seen so much water coming off the land but got a 78 mile stint in regardless. Managed 120 miles on the last day. I’m told February would have been much drier, if a little colder. No doubt about it though, some of the scenery up the West side is stunning, but the weather on that Tuesday…… If you are thinking of doing it and have any questions feel free to ask. Managed to raise £1300 for Cancer Research by completing it as well. Trevor.
