Why this ride
The stops in between: Fiag, Skinsdale and back through Fiag.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
A’Mhoine-Hope-Loyal and Skinsdale
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 188 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 20
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. A’Mhoine-Hope-Loyal
There is a particular silence on the A836 above Altnaharra, and this stretch of it is the best place to notice it. The road here is single track with passing places, running north from Lairg toward the Kyle of Tongue, with Loch Loyal laid out beside it and the four-peaked ridge of Ben Loyal standing over the water. Hope is the other half of the name, Ben Hope, the northernmost Munro, which you will have glimpsed already as a long flat-topped wall to the north-west.
Read the complete A’Mhoine-Hope-Loyal write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
A’Mhoine-Hope-Loyal is where the day begins. Next is Fiag.
2. Fiag
Fiag lies in the empty country of central Sutherland, in the far north of Scotland, where one road, the A836, runs between Lairg and the north coast through miles of peat bog, heather and lochs. Loch Fiag and its bridge are close, a small, quiet water set among low hills, and the ridge of Ben Klibreck rises to the north, a rounded mountain above nine hundred metres. This is part of the Flow Country, a vast blanket of peatland that is one of the largest in Europe, and the habitat is home to golden plovers, greenshank, red-throated divers and, now and then, an eagle overhead.
Read the complete Fiag write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Fiag comes up 35 km in. Next is Skinsdale.
3. Skinsdale
Nobody lives in Skinsdale to speak of, which is more or less the point. The glen lies in the east of Sutherland, an empty fold of moorland and burn between the coast at Brora and Helmsdale and the great open bog country to the north-west, and the nearest towns of any size, Golspie, Brora and Dornoch, are all over twenty kilometres away. A road passes through this part of the country, but the glen itself is a place you look into rather than ride through.
Read the complete Skinsdale write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
71 km in you reach Skinsdale. Next is back through Fiag.
4. back through Fiag
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fiag write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Fiag, late in the day. Next is A’Mhoine-Hope-Loyal.
5. A’Mhoine-Hope-Loyal
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete A’Mhoine-Hope-Loyal write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at A’Mhoine-Hope-Loyal. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
A’Mhoine-Hope-Loyal to Fiag
A’Mhoine-Hope-Loyal → Fiag is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fiag to Skinsdale
Fiag → Skinsdale is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Skinsdale to back through Fiag
Skinsdale → back through Fiag is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fiag to A’Mhoine-Hope-Loyal
back through Fiag → A’Mhoine-Hope-Loyal is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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