Killin to Callander

26 miles (42km)

After a 4 miles climb out of Killin in drizzle the ride improves significantly. From the top of the mountain pass it's an undulating descent into Callander a few hundred meters below along old railway lines and forest paths. I'd have to say it's one of the prettiest days riding we've had on the trip yet, for a long time the trail follows along high up the side of the valley so you get great views down the whole way. When it finally touches down at the bottom of the valley you're in lush forest and riding around the shores of the various lochs between the two towns. Bit hard to take a good picture of it, but here's a few from the day.







Oh the other small detail was that for the entire day we were riding against the flow of the Robroy Challange, at first it looked like a pretty serious race, skinny whippets in the cockpits of road bikes going flat out along a mix of gravel paths and bitumen, but as our day progressed so did the field, by the end of the day we were weaving our way through the novices. Or perhaps they were weaving and we were just riding straight, it became hard to tell at times.