Monadliath Military 200

[ScotRoutes]

My second attempt at this route, this time in company of metalheart and friend David, and starting/ending in Inverness rather than Aviemore

This is Flora Macdonald trying to look ahead down the route for us

P1050616 by Colin Cadden, on Flickr

Leaving the Wade road for a short diversion at the Slochd

P1050621 by Colin Cadden, on Flickr

Friday night bivvy spot at the Uath Lochan. THankfully, we managed to avoid all the campervans. Great spot though.

P1050632 by Colin Cadden, on Flickr

Essential sustenance at Laggan before the ride over the Corrieyairack.

P1050639 by Colin Cadden, on Flickr

One of the many old bridges

P1050647 by Colin Cadden, on Flickr

David almost at the top

P1050649 by Colin Cadden, on Flickr

Push out of Saturdays bivvy spot.

P1050652 by Colin Cadden, on Flickr

First sight of Loch Ness on day 3

P1050663 by Colin Cadden, on Flickr

And some pleasant woody stuff to drop us back in Inverness.

3 days, 215km, 3,380m of ascent


I'd changed chain and cassette prior to the ride and it all seemed fine but I was getting horrendous chainsuck under load when in the granny gear. As a result, I managed almost the whole trip in 36-42 and I'm having thoughts about 50T cassettes and 1x gears.

Lack of thought also had me not applying insect repellent and not using the bug net on my bivvy bag. As a result I had to remove 21 ticks on getting back home. Plus, possibly caused by dehydration (again my fault) I've been throwing up all day and feel crap.

[metalheart]

Here's some missing photo's to fill some gaps:

Waiting for Colin...


The Sluggan Bridge:


Some more Uath Lochans bivvies:


Approaching Ruthven Barracks:


The Centre of Scotland....


Laggan Stores:


Loch Tarff:


Loch Tarff Bivvy:




The hill out of Loch Tarff:


And Les himself...
Les revenants by Blakclaw, on Flickr

I spewed my ringer yesterday evening. I am a puker, but I guess its a bit of a coincidence. David thinks it was the S&V crisps what done it...

Total tick tally for the lunar solo boys: zero...

Oh, and I was 250km, don't know the total altitude but I was 3028m for Sat & Sun.

[fatbikephil]

Nice one chaps, that climb out of Loch Tarf is a cracker, especially if you've just ground your way up from Ft Augustus

Note to self, ride bicycle on south Loch Ness trail this year and ride motorcycle on road roughly parallel to same

[darbeze]

That looks ace. Although the tick count put me off a bit. I am going on holiday to the Cairngorms in May after the WRT and was planning on taking a bike...

Si