Has anyone managed to cycle from the bridge to nowhere (north tolsta) to Ness (filiscleitir) on the east coast? I suspect it would be very wet on a lot of pushing but perhaps someone has tried?
it would be about 8km. Satellite image isn’t clearly showing a path.
Hi Erick, I asked my friend who lives in North Tolsta, heres his reply:
"You'd just be pushing the bike for almost all of it. It's also longer than 8km. It might look like there's a path on OS maps but there isn't. All the best French Erick"
I ran from Stornoway Airport up that coast to Ness a couple of years ago. Any semblance of a track disappeared as I crossed the Abhainn na Cloich, a km or so past the Bridge to Nowhere. There was then about 11km of heathery pathless sloppy bog until reaching the peat road that comes in from Skigersta.
Look like these guys had a good very memorable and tough trip north to south hugging the cliff top indistinct tracks (these are visible on Google Earth). In land looks a boggy 'mare following the OS 'tracks'.
It's really boggy and would leave tracks that will last for years. There's another similarly boggy path in Harris that was cycled around 5 years ago and the tracks are still visible.
The track to Tamnabhaigh makes for a good off road cycle. About 24km.
From the link posted above by the local guys who did it; don't follow the OS map trails, use the cliff top walkers trails away from the inland bog fest.
I was more into discovering the island on my gravel bike fully loaded. I think I will give this a miss as it would be too much hard work for my leisurely 4 full days on the island. Plenty of other places I can go to instead.
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