mountain biking

Enjoyable trip

5 October 2011

  Enjoyable trip By Johnfrom Dunedin, NZ on 2011-09-23 Pros:  Great Accommodations,Fun,Well OrganisedDescribe Yourself:  Avid AdventurerBest Uses:  HolidayBottom Line:  Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments about Great Glen Cycleway Mountain biking Holiday : This was one of three European MTB trips we did. The hire bikes that were arranged for us were excellent quality and well [...]

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Great Glen Cycleway – Day 4

4 November 2010
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Day 4 Firstly you may note that the photographic/video accompaniment for today does not follow true to the previous couple of days.  This is largely due to the sheer volume of water falling from the sky onto my head.  Indeed, not only was it monsoon season in Drumnadrochit, to further challenge me a gale force [...]

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Great Glen Cycleway – Day 3

4 November 2010
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Day 3 A quick peek out of the window confirms that the rain is here today, in abundance.  After a wonderful breakfast at Glen Albyn I pack my stuff, leave my bags to be collected and venture out onto the cycleway.  The Great Glen Way and Cycleway only really differ at this point.  While the [...]

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Great Glen Cycleway – Day 2

3 November 2010
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Day 2 I awoke to a glorious autumnal morning, dry and very bright, just the ideal conditions for a cycle.  The sign for the official start of the Great Glen Way is located down on the green overlooking Loch Linnhe and though not as auspicious as the West Highland Way signage (The end of which [...]

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Great Glen Cycleway – Day 1

3 November 2010
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Laden with optimism and the idea of a few days immersed in the peace of the Scottish countryside, I decided to tackle the Great Glen Cycleway on my bike. Here at Macs Adventure we are looking to strengthen our cycling and mountainbiking products over the winter season and I thought that the Great Glen would [...]

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Multi Activity Holiday Scotland

16 February 2010
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I am proud to announce the launch of our first  Multi Activity Holiday in Scotland, part of our long awaited Discovery Scotland Collection. Our aim is to enable visitors to Scotland to experience the real Scotland up close and personal. It’s only when your boots are wet, there’s a trickle of icy water dripping down [...]

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There Is Hope! Mountain Equipment CS Excels

14 October 2009

Outstanding customer service from Mountain Equipment has given me new hope. I can only compliment them on their outstanding customer service and hold out hope that putting the customer first is not dead. Over the past few months I have had a series of extremely poor customer service experiences, most notably with BT Business Broadband, [...]

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Glentress just gets better and better!

13 October 2009

Mountain biking at Glentress just continues to get better and better. I was lucky enough to teach an introduction to mountain biking course at Glen tress last weekend. I’ll be honest and admit that it is a while since I was down at Glentress as Andy and Keith now run most of our MTB courses. [...]

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Carl, John & Stephen Meet Scotland

5 May 2008

A fun photo diary of John, Carl and Stephen’s Scottish Coast to Coast Mountain Bike ride from Fort William to Montrose through the Scottish Highlands. Thanks to Carl Markowitz for sharing his photos.

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