Sheil Bridge- Glenelg Loop Mountain biking

From Shiel Bridge to Glenelg and back along the northern shoreline.
This is a mountain bike route with some nice technical sections. Would I do it again? Yes, but I'd explore the changes suggested and do it in the dry.

Loch Duich from the Five Sisters; the return leg follows the left hand shoreline  © Dan Bailey - UKHillwalking.com  © Dan Bailey - UKHillwalking.com
Loch Duich from the Five Sisters; the return leg follows the left hand shoreline © Dan Bailey - UKHillwalking.com
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NG9355518879 Having found a suggestion of the route on google, we set out. The climb up the switchbacks from Sheil Bridge was sustained, but fine. The descent on the other side by road could be made more off road by taking the fire roads shown on the OS map to the south of the road starting at 895199 which seem to end in same place, but we didn't think of them til too late. The route we were planning on went down glen more on the path from 871196 and curled round into Glean Beag and down to Glenelg past the Brochs. At the turn off the path seemed to be a boggy morass, so we continued to Glenelg by road. In dry weather this may be more fun.

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NG8127819258 From Glenelg (after a pint and pork scratchings at the pub,) we went north to the path at 795213 and followed that around the headland to Ardintoul, the best bit of riding on the loop with some twisty, exposed downhill sections that we wanted to ride again.

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NG8373323924 On return to the coast the path is a bit vague, but riding is still possible. Finding the path from 837239 didn't happen, but we picked it up on the far side of the river so it must come from somewhere!! (Maybe off the fire road slightly to the South?) The technical uphill on the path was a great challenge, before some bog trotting through trees until 865250, when the view of Eilean Donan framed a great downhill section that nearly made the bog trotting worthwhile (may not be so bad in the dry.) The final section is easy by road back to Sheil Bridge.

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