Ben Hope

Day 14 - Bonar Bridge - Tongue

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June 6th 2008
As with a lot of the rest of Scotland, we rode along one long road for most of the day. An A-road in name only, the A836 from Loch Shin, via Loch Loyal to Tongue, is a single track barely used by anyone. This made for very pleasant cycling, across undulating moorland, past conifer plantations, eerily-quiet lochs and towards the imposing peaks of Ben Hope and Ben Loyal. We could have headed dire ... read more

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