Table of Contents

Introduction

Scotland’s South (Ayrshire, Borders, Dumfries and Galloway)

1 Ayrshire Alps, Coast & Castles

2 Borders to Coast

3 Borders Three Abbeys Loop

Central Belt (East Lothian, Edinburgh, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Falkirk)

4 Go East Lothian Trail

5 Capital Trail

6 From Forth to Fife

7 Discovering Perthshire's Heritage

8 Explore Your Boundaries Clackmannanshire

9 Falkirk Adventure Route

10 The John Muir Way

Argyll and the Isles

11 Dunoon Dirt Dash

12 Wild About Argyll Trail

13 Bikepacking Argyll's Islands

14 Around Loch Awe

Central Highlands

15 Highland Perthshire Drovers Trail

16 The Cateran Gran Fondo

17 Cairngorms National Park Loop

18 From Coast to Barrell

19 A Scottish Hostelling Adventure

North of Scotland

20 Alternative North Coast 500

About the Author

Markus Stitz is a German-born route designer, filmmaker, photographer and writer, based in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh. He caught the adventure bug while living in New Zealand and has explored Scotland extensively since he moved here in 2009. Before cycling 34,000 kilometres unsupported around the world on a single-speed mountain bike, he mapped his first bikepacking route, the Capital Trail, awarded best new route in 2015 by bikepacking.com Shortly after his trip he founded Bikepacking Scotland (bikepackingscotland.com) has worked in many corners of Scotland, designing bikepacking and gravel routes for Wild About Argyll, Visit East Lothian, the Cateran Ecomuseum, VisitCairngorms and others. Markus is an ultra-endurance racer, with three successful finishes of the Highland Trail 550, along with single finishes of the Silk Road Mountain Race and the Atlas Mountain Race. Markus’s writing has appeared in a wide variety of magazines and online publications including Singletrack, Cycling UK, Cranked *and *Yellow Jersey. He is the author of Great British Gravel Rides and he also co-edited Big Rides: Great Britain & Ireland. Bikepacking Scotland is his second solo book. markusstitz.com