Winter Trip to North Coast Scotland

[F4T XJ]

Not particularly well planned have the Jeep all packed and a rough idea of a couple of places to go to but most will be just a case of seeing what comes our way.

Will post some photos as and when we get connection but rig is loaded we have plenty of fuel, food and fire wood on board and I'm heading off with my son. Will leave the Jeep parked up at one point to get a climb a couple of the Munro's and camp in the mountains.

Weather is just starting to break over the next few days so hopefully the 50mph winds will drop a little before we take on the summits.

Checked the Jeep over today and had some new tyres fitted as my last set have a good 40K miles but we're on there last legs.

Will update IG as well @F4T_XJ

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Almost packed just a few more bits to squeeze in

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Started the trip with an overnight blast across the border took around 10 hours total. We stopped just north of Trossachs national park and bought some local Venison steaks. We asked the landowner that we bought the steaks from if he knew anywhere we could camp. He let us camp on his land right on the loch.

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One of our dogs joined us and was getting all set for the night.

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Campfire going and the Venison steaks were perfect View attachment 16693


Moon was to bright for any star gazing

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Popped up to Cairngorm to the ski resort but not much powder there at the moment
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And of course we were so close we had to see if we could find the Loch Ness Monster

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Location from first nights camp at Loch Vail

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Headed right across to the West and spent a little to much time on the scenery and visiting a 1300 century castle light was fading and then realised we hadn't found anywhere to camp. We struggled for a while and came across a mountain pass that is not always passable during winter

We were treated to a fantastic sunset from the peak.

It was a little windy though

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Coming off the mountain pass we were in a small town called Applecross. We found what looked like a suitable place to camp and when we woke in the morning had a great view from our camp.

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Location of Mountain pass to Applecross

 

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Anyone know how to link to Instagram post in a thread??

 

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Headed further up the coast following the Wester Ross Coast Trail

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Came across a beach just north of Gairloch so stopped to let the dog stretch her legs. We pretty much had the beach to ourselves

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Not sure how that random Jeep shot ended up in there [emoji1]

Location of the beach at Gairloch.

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Was also further beaches just north called Little Sand and Big Sand

 

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Took a 15 mile single track road across to the Atlantic ocean to camp

It was the first night we had to share a camp spot with anyone else [emoji1]

 

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Stopped by a gorge on the way back down south we had stumbled across the day before the suspension bridge I took the photo from is interesting it moves a lot!

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[[DO]Ron]

Nice pics man! Looks like a cool trip!