Great glen Way: Loch Ness to Inverness

Day 31
Distance- 63km (1494)
Weather- Sunshine
Highlights- MTB at Abriachan, Dinner at Alan and Charity's
Lowlights- the campsite was no cigar
Accommodation- Glasgow Campsite, near swimming pool

Sore sore sore. Pete's knees, now Tom's knee and Sarah's whole body. We all agreed to road ride into Drummodochit, the home of all things Nessy. Hopes were high for a good Bakery but the bakery was more of a tea shop so chocolate bread was had all round. We then headed out of town where the stretch of road was labeled 'steep road', 15% incline not bad. But this brought us out on top of a moore land that was lovely. Finally out of the trees and able to see the surrounding hills. From the top of the section there was a smoking 5km down hill, Peter clocked 53km, naughty boy. Then off up another hills before we popped out in the forest area known Abriachan dinner and . This is one of the many forestry mountain bike parks. There is a red, a blue and a green. We dumped the trailer and headed off to explore. The blue was nice but loose and we floated all over the track with out slicks. Then on to the red which proven to be quite technically challenging, poor Tom having to wait quite a lot. We then head back to pick up the trailers and continue along the moore land.

Despite the Great Glen Way originally being a walking tack we hadn't seen too many walkers until this stretch. They seemed to be dotted all the way along the road. I was not envious of the, walking this hot stretch of tarmac into Inverness. The road was great and eventually took a downward trend yippeeeee. We intended to continue beyond Inverness but decided to camp in town. The campsite was no cigar but close to town and convent for tomorrow. we went out to dinner to Sarah's friends Alan and Charity. Fantastic but gradually we all slid into the couches and started to nod off, time to go home to the chateua de Mac Pac.