The Pictish Trail is a 462 mile bikepacking route that climbs through pastoral countryside and pristine gravel tracks before it finally reaches Edinbrugh. The term ‘Picts’ refers to the people who inhabited this region of Scotland in the first millennium AD and the remnants of their civilization can be found along this route.
Their society lasted a brief 600 years, before vanishing from the historical record and the carvings they left behind are the subject of many myths and legends. For these reasons, historians regard the picts as an enigma: an alien people, whose language, culture and customs are lost to the sands of time.
This is my first bikepacking trip abroad and I’m excited for the new challenges it will present. On this trip, I trudge through deep bogs, get eaten alive by midges and soaked by rain, but through it all i was exactly where I wanted to be, on a big adventure that is somehow elating and excruciating at the same time.
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The Pictish Trail is a 462 mile bikepacking route that climbs through pastoral countryside and pristine gravel tracks before it finally reaches Edinbrugh. The term ‘Picts’ refers to the people who inhabited this region of Scotland in the first millennium AD and the remnants of their civilization can be found along this route.
Their society lasted a brief 600 years, before vanishing from the historical record and the carvings they left behind are the subject of many myths and legends. For these reasons, historians regard the picts as an enigma: an alien people, whose language, culture and customs are lost to the sands of time.
This is my first bikepacking trip abroad and I’m excited for the new challenges it will present. On this trip, I trudge through deep bogs, get eaten alive by midges and soaked by rain, but through it all i was exactly where I wanted to be, on a big adventure that is somehow elating and excruciating at the same time.