Route Plan
We only have a very vague plan for our route and this is the way we want to keep it for the moment, because half the fun of this trip is the freedom to go wherever we want. Our plan currently consists of a list of places we would like to visit. Some of these places are listed below. If there is a place you would recommend then please add it using the form below and tell us what is so great about it that we should want to go there. The places listed below are also shown on the map.
Suggest a place
List of places suggested so far:
Badachro
Position: 57°42.11'N 6°17.04'W
Magnificent natural harbour, small pier. Pub with v good food. Need a lift or a long walk to Slioch?
Suggested By: Geoff
Bluemull Sound
Position: 60°40.7'N 1°1.11'W
Play tag with Orcas
Suggested By: Katie
Canna
Position: 57°4.86'N 7°28.78'W
Small new harbour
Suggested By: geoff
cape wrath
Position: 58°37.2'N 6°59.68'W
There are a couple of obscure and worthwhile sea stacks in the area and the beach and bothy there are supposed to be magic - so the rumour goes. Got a cool name as well.
Suggested By: Fat Belly
Corpach, canal basin near Fort William
Position: 56°50.54'N 6°52.66'W
Handy for Fort William and Ben Nevis.
Suggested By: geoff
Craighouse, Jura
Position: 55°50.03'N 6°2.98'W
6000 red deer. Also a shop, fine foooood from the Jura hotel, a distillery, 3 Paps and a small rusty school bus.
Suggested By: Katie
Da Bod Cafe, Hillswick
Position: 60°28.61'N 2°30.78'W
My favourite eatery in the world ever. Volunteer run veggie cafe-restaurant-seal sanctuary-organic kitchen garden-live music venue wonderfulness. Check they''re open beforehand tho!!
Suggested By: Katie
Diabaig
Position: 57°34.5'N 6°18.86'W
Diabaig Pillar- Scotlands answer to Left Wall (but not polished)!
Suggested By: Neil
Diabaig
Position: 57°34.51'N 6°18.88'W
Diabaig Pillar- Scotlands answer to Left Wall!
Suggested By: Neil
Dumbarton
Position: 55°56.24'N 5°26.11'W
Just tick off a few of the routes here, heard there is a good soft touch called Equilibrium.
Suggested By: Steve
Elgol, south Skye
Position: 57°8.04'N 7°54.07'W
Small jetty, near to red and black Cuillins
Suggested By: geoff
Fairhead
Position: 55°13.64'N 7°51'W
Derr!!!
Suggested By: Max
Idrigill Point, Skye
Position: 57°20.09'N 7°25.81'W
Interesting coastline that includes cliffs, sea stacks, natural arches and caves.
Suggested By: Dan vdL
Inverie, Loch Nevis
Position: 57°2.67'N 6°18.87'W
A new harbour with slipway. A pub with good food. Bunkhouse accomodation if needed. Only one road which is not connected to mainland roads. Surrounded by mountains. Exceptionally good. Near to Mallaig by sea - which has a chandlers and boatyard.
Suggested By: geoff
Islay
Position: 55°39.27'N 7°44.79'W
More single malt than you can shake an oar at. And if you''re still floating about in Oct it''ll be bursting with the joy of 20 thousand Greenland white-fronted and barnacle geese
Suggested By: Katie
Isle of Arran
Position: 55°38.14'N 6°46.15'W
Lots of good granite climbing
Suggested By:
Isle of Man
Position: 54°13.46'N 5°28.42'W
Because when else can you say you were just going past so stopped in.
Suggested By: Reg
Isle Ornsay, south east Skye
Position: 57°8.08'N 6°13.02'W
Small old pier, right next to pub and not much else. Try the Laphroig.
Suggested By: geoff
kerrera
Position: 56°23.45'N 6°27.11'W
there is an awesome tea shop on the south end of the island that you can moor off and stop in. it does great cake!
Suggested By: tp
Kyle of lochalsh
Position: 57°0'N 6°0'W
I know you have already been there but its great and will be even more great a week on Wednesday when Jen and I arrive back from our 10 days(!) off when we''ll be raring to go and in much need of fun times!! woo hoo!! Thats why i recommend it..lol.
Suggested By: Laura (Venturer)
Loch Scavaig, Skye
Position: 57°11.87'N 7°50.14'W
Right under the Cuillin. Seals ashore and soaring granite straight up from the anchorage. Use two hooks. The downdraughts are ferocious.
Suggested By: David Rainsbury
Loch Torridon
Position: 57°31.72'N 6°20.93'W
Shieldaig - small village and pub. Possibly Inver Alligin in Upper loch Torridon too? Nearest to the Torridon hills.
Suggested By: Geoff
Machrihanish
Position: 55°25.53'N 6°15.87'W
Surfs up!!
Suggested By: Jenny
Mousa
Position: 60°0.01'N 2°49.52'W
RSPB reserve and home to Mousa broch - the finest preserved example of an Iron Age broch (or round tower) in Scotland, and is the tallest still standing in the world. Visit at midnight to see (and hear!) the Storm petrels come home. Also an Orca hotspot
Suggested By: Katie
Muckle Flugga
Position: 60°51.36'N 1°7.11'W
Most Northerly point in British Isles (well almost, Out Stack is really), big lighthouse, EPIC numbers of gannets, kittiwakes, skuas, auks, terns (trust me i had to count them!) and great fun to canoe around (or so i''m told)
Suggested By: Katie
Old Man of Hoy
Position: 58°53.29'N 4°33.92'W
Very famous sea stack with classic climbing routes.
Suggested By: Reg
Old Man of Stoer
Position: 58°15.74'N 6°37.06'W
Another classic sea stack
Suggested By: Reg
Pabbay
Position: 56°51.25'N 8°25.14'W
Awesome Rock Climbing
Suggested By: Reg
Portree
Position: 57°23.75'N 7°48.88'W
Main town on Skye. Buses in every direction. Near to Old Man of Storr, first climbed by Hamish MacInnes I think, very loose rock?
Suggested By: geoff
Rum
Position: 57°1.26'N 7°43.4'W
Small island belongs to SNH. Visit the big house which is sometimes open for visitors. Rum has fantastic hills called the Cuillins - miniature versions of Skye. Beautiful views. Hundreds of red deer. Shearwater - birds which roost at night in underground burrows! Bunkhouse accomodation.
Suggested By: geoff
Skye
Position: 57°12.18'N 7°42.74'W
Traverse of the Cuillin Ridge as well as rock climbing awesome scenery etc.
Suggested By: Reg
St Kilda
Position: 57°48.78'N 9°26.71'W
Awesome! No climbing allowed but the atmosphere of the place is unbelievable. The anchorage soon becomes untenable leaving you faced with a 50 mile run to the shelter of Taransay if it kicks up, but that only adds to the buzz. Like the site.
Suggested By: David Rainsbury
St Kilda
Position: 57°48.78'N 9°24.36'W
Isolated, uninhabited island - nice sailing passage there and back - do you recon there is any climbing to be had?
Suggested By: Reg
Strone Ulladale
Position: 58°0.8'N 7°3.23'W
Awesome crag containing routes such as The Scoop, the most difficult Hard Rock Tick in Scotland (if you free climb it...)
Suggested By: Reg
the herdsman
Position: 58°32.43'N 6°56.79'W
You should try the logical direct finish to The petebrough mountaineering club are yellow bellied lilly livered coward HS 4b, I reckon the direct will go at E9 4b. Its just a stroll along the beach, easy access craging really.
Suggested By: Fat Belly
The Wind Dog Cafe
Position: 60°40.24'N 1°0.05'W
The other best cafe in Shetland. Great food and great entertainment guaranteed
Suggested By: Katie
Tiree
Position: 56°29.95'N 7°7.85'W
Windsurfing capital of the Northern Hemisphere
Suggested By: Mike
ullapool and achiltibue
Position: 57°0'N 6°0'W
ullapool is a great small town with a nice small harbor at the end of loch broom. Achiltibue is an amazing area with access to the summer isles and Stac Pollaidh, Ben More Coigach., and the cliffs at Reiff.
Suggested By: tom armstrong
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