On sunday morning 6 of us set off from thurso for the drive down to Dingwall and along the ullapool road to a small place called Aultguish....our aim for the day was to cycle our MTBs to the top of a munro called Am Faochagach (dont ask me how to pronounce it!). Our group leader Allan Sutherland had scoped out the OS map and it looked possible to follow a landrover track up to around 800m and then scramble/ride up to the summit at 950m. After parking up and a few easy miles along an access road we were met with our "landrover" track which turned out to be more of a sheep trail ridden over by a couple of quads:)
Anyway to cut a long story short after 3 hours of pushing, carrying and some riding we made it to the summit and bagged the munro to make it all worthwhile. After getting some evil looks from some hillwalkers we blasted back down the trails and after a few over the handlebar manoeuvres by myself we made it back down.
If anyones around that way cycling or walking you should def head for the aultguish inn, we had a couple of beers and some really good food before heading back up the road. All in all pretty eventful day!! Will get some photos up in the next day or two
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