Cairngorms Loop :: Day 3 :: MASSIVE ROUTE CHANGE
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Sometimes you have to take control and not be a slave to the trail.
After day 2 dishing more pushing and on-again-off-again riding we decide to ditch the official Cairngorm Loop and head off on a detour then another detour.
Before we split off though we were treated to one of the most beautiful descents I've done. A fantastic and varied trail, river crossing, wild swimming, mountains turning to forest, all illuminated by golden sunshine.
This is how all bikepacking should be, I just hope I captured it!
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Adventure cycling at its best. Nice scenery once again. Thanks for bringing us along.
Twas my pleasure, thanks for watching!
Another gorgeous day to ride! Thanks!
It was a real crackers, one to remember!
Gorgeous campsites again, and an amazing luck with the weather. Love these videos! The Scottish tourism bureau should be rewarding you for all the praise your channel is giving to their lovely nature!
The weather was unbelievable. In the wet this trip would have been a completely different beast but we lucked out 100%
I agree completely. It is a travesty that no one has offered to pay me large sums of money to ride around saying nice things about mountains!
It will happen though, I'm sure of it 😉
@@JethroJessop It will, I agree 🍀
Living the life mate. Thanks for sharing.
Trying my best while i can. Thanks for watching 😃
Wow! That bothy was so fancy! Your campsite was great too. It would be hard for me to choose a preference… Okay. I’ve lied. I choose the bothy! 😉
Route change was a nice call. Thanks for sharing!
It was the best I've ever seen (haven't seen many though). I do kind of regret missing it just because it was so plush but that spot by the river was pretty special so I'm not too upset
Beautifully filmed with great music, nice one Jethro 🚲⛺👍
You didn't see any trolls because they are nocturnal in Scotland, due to their prey (the Osynlig Haggis) being nocturnal.
I too am a big fan of just playing the route by ear, nothing worse than 'having' to stick rigidly to a plan. It's all cycling, right.
That makes sense. I thought I heard some trollish calls in the night so that must have been a hunting party.
We searched for tracks in the morning but found nothing. They could have been miles away though, it's so hard to tell 😉
Lovely video, thanks. Good call by the New York Logistics team ;) Tunnock's for the win!
They are a great team, I'd be nothing without them, my stunt doubles, my caterers.
Most of my rides are CGI anyway so the VFX team have to get a mention as well 😉
@@JethroJessop 😂
It's about time Tunnock's reached out I reckon 😉
I agree but the phone has yet to ring. I'm sure they will get round to me soon. They are probably just deciding exactly how many Tunnocks my soul is worth ;)
What an amazing day, what a fantastic bothy ….. my experience of bothy’s has been a leaking, mouse infested, cow shed, clearly I’ve been going to the wrong ones 😂
Mine the same! Ive only stayed in two but they were both really basic. This was more like a little holiday house!
Dreamy…you lucky things
Yeah, it was all jolly splendid
Now that looks more like it Jethro, what amazing views and trails. And sun in Scotland??? I lived there for 6 years and don't recall seeing it!
Cheers
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We got so lucky with the weather!
Though i actually have a pretty good record of visiting Scotland in decent conditions.
I don't know if Scotland has Trolls but I'm reliably informed Scotland has fearsome Wild Haggis in the highlands.
Apparently Wild Haggis is know to attack warm blooded creatures and devour them.
Stay safe out there.
We were on guard the whole time. We slept in shifts and always had a loaded shotgun to hand but fortunately we didnt have any haggis trouble. I guess the trolls must have eaten them all 😉
top video jet it looks unreal up there, i started watching your uploads a couple of years back and they inspired me to get a bike and i disapear into the countryside most days riding old paths and trails...its sean mcdonagh by the way 🙂🙂
That's awesome! Good to hear you are getting into the biking. Are you still in Reading these days?
@@JethroJessop aye its good for the body and soul and yes im still knocking about in reading
@@seanymcd81 it really is. I'd probably spend my life doing it, if the rest of life didn't get in the way.
Lots of good riding around Reading. Every time I think I've seen everything there is to sea round there I find some new route that I've not ridden before!
It a little out of season but you maybe fortunate to see very young ones only if your very quiet and lucky, it’s time of year when they are eating there greens, I am of course talking about Haggis scoticus, a very timid creature..
According to some sources, the wild haggis's left and right legs are of different lengths, allowing it to run quickly around the steep mountains and hillsides which make up its natural habitat, but only in one direction.
It is further claimed that there are two varieties of haggis, one with longer left legs and the other with longer right legs. The former variety can run clockwise around a mountain (as seen from above) while the latter can run anticlockwise.The two varieties coexist peacefully but are unable to interbreed in the wild because in order for the male of one variety to mate with a female of the other, he must turn to face in the same direction as his intended mate.
Good luck…
I'd really hoped to see some but we didn't even spot any tracks ☹️
I think the weather was a bit warm for them so they probably went higher to find shelter under the rocks.
Really nicely filmed video, well done. The weather was kind and you surely made the best of it.
The weather was unbelievable! But I've always been treated surprisingly well by the Scottish skies 😃
Love it! Today I'm heading out to South Sweden for an 8-day solo bike packing adventure myself. This video was the perfect last-minute inspiration. (And reminded me to bring swimming shorts.) Keep up the good work, and when you have time, please restock the Etsy-shop.
Cheers!
Sweden in the summer is my favourite place to ride probably! What route are you following?
I have not done much whittling recently, just haven't had the opportunity, but as soon as I do I'll shout about it so keep an eye out.
@@JethroJessop I didn't have a fixed route, but ended up doing a nice coast-to-coast loop, starting in Malmö. About 800 km in total. Which, maybe, was a bit much. Or so my legs keep telling me. But it also was the best!
The main places I passed were: Malmö, Kivik, Solvesborg, Vaxjö, Store Mosse National Park (Where I slept in the old house, that is used as a 'raststuga'), Varnarmo, Ljungby, Bolmen, Halmstad, Laxvik, Helsinngborg and Malmö again.
Came home yesterday, would go again tomorrow...
@@adriaankeizer1878 that sound perfect. Freestyle routes are often the best, especially in Sweden.
I've been up in Vetlanda these last couple of weeks and the weather has been mostly glorious. I hope you got the same treatment 😃
@@JethroJessop yeah, more or less the same here. One (very) rainy afternoon, but with sunshine and even a little campfire in te evening.
@@adriaankeizer1878 sounds amazing! I am very envious. Need to get another trip planned myself while summer is still hanging around
What a fantastic alteration to the route/plan. The scenery looks amazing. This has inspired me to sort myself out and get back to riding. I completed King Alfreds Way last year and hated it so much I haven't ridden since. I realise now that a fixed route, a schedule or itinerary to keep, for me anyway, takes the joy from riding. The best adventures are spontaneous and sometimes the best laid plans can result in a stale, joyless riding experience. Love the videos, thanks.
Definitely get back to it!
Sometimes a route just doesn't deliver for all kinds of reasons but don't let it put you off.
I don't mind a fixed route (I enjoyed the KAW) but I hate feeling pressed for time so the rides I remember most fondly are the ones that were made up on the fly and had plenty of wiggle room built in!
Swimming part is so coooool, so relaxing. BTW, what is the moral of the pyramidal rock piles in UK? I saw many similar ones in Tibet, Iceland, Italy...Know that in Tibet is for religious belief, how about in UK?
I think it's just something people do. Humans have been piling up stones forever I bet.
I think it has become a thing because of Instagram and I know it is often frowned on because people move rocks in rivers and disturb habitat, also leaving potentially quite dangerous piles of rocks in popular spots.
I try to be sensible about my choice of stones and always knock them down before I leave.
But it doesn't mean anything, it's just a pass time.
Wise choice missing that slog of a hike-a-bike - it takes forever. I loved the Cairngorm Loop but I recommend not taking the inner loop to Blair Atholl
Yeah it looked pretty hard going. Our changes worked out well and im glad we did it the way we did. We got some great riding in elsewhere and still got a good taste of the official loop i think
Good decision! There’s something very liberating in casting off the shackles of a pre-determined route.
PS your editing skills have gone stratospheric, you even managed to make the Scottish sky look blue!
We got such good conditions it was hard to take a bad shot! Blues skies, sunshine, the lot. It was amazing!
It did feel good to head off on our own line I have to say, and it turned out to be a good decision in the long run
Hello Jethro again a nice and interest video about scotland. Best wishes from germany. 😊
I'm glad you enjoyed it. It was a fantastic day in a fantastic place :)
Well Jethro that looked fun more please 👍
It was fantastic! More coming soon, keep your eyes peeled!
Reet J great vid, just to ask which bothy was that ? Might be clobbering the circuit in September👍🚴♂️🍻
Think it was called Ruigh Aiteachain, it was marked on the route map that I found on RwGPS.
Definitely worth aiming for, it was fantastic, and in a really lovely spot as well
As the executive producer of your New York based production film crew, I concur with this plan! We’ll get some warm croissants and tea choppered into you guys! 🤣
Thanks. Can I have a few more bunches of flowers in my trailer next time as well please?
Kin-yoosie - the G is silent, like the p in swimming (as in your lunchtime dip spot🤣), or ptarmigan👍🏻🥃🏴
Silent G, interesting. I find it fascinating how many linguistics bits and bobs are similar in Scotland to Scandinavia.
@@JethroJessop as a Danish speaking Scot, I concur. Common root to much of our words, especially the NE Scots Doric dialect, but all along the East coast of GB and round the Isles also. 👍🏻🥃🏴
@@freeforester1717 yeah, I only know a handful of Swedish words but the amount of surprising similarities to English in general but especially more northern dialects is crazy. It really helps to explain some of the weirder bits of English too
"Piled up some rocks" ... not you too 😟
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Hi Jethro, do you have a job?
He did, but I don't think he has now.
Gave it up as bad hobby…😂😂He’s more of a wastrel, a poetic description “ A Vagabond”, filling his days with purpose, even if it is a very simple purpose. But of course I could be wrong….😂😂😂😂.
Until about a year ago I was a javascript developer. I quit that (annoyingly just a few months before I would have been made redundant with a nice payoff) to pursue a move to Sweden and since have been spending my savings and chasing the dream of becoming a millionaire CZcamsr (I haven't caught it yet)