550 miles and 16,000m of climbing through the wildest corners of the Scottish Highlands. Self-supported means exactly that: no crew, no feed stations, no course markings. Just you, a GPX file and the road north.
The route
An anti-clockwise loop out from Tyndrum through Torridon, the far north coast and Glen Affric, on singletrack, estate tracks, boggy moorland and unbridged river crossings. The 8-day cutoff sounds generous, and it is, but the remote north selects hard.
Early-May, Tyndrum
Highs around 11°C and lows around 5°C, but it has dropped to -2°C. Rain on 60% of days. Pack for the cold end, not the average.
Who finishes, and how
Training for the Highland Trail 550
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