Fastest route from M74 to Oban?

[ColinJ]

You could camp in our garden, and I doubt there would be many midges, just a small excitable dog!!

We are just north of Glasgow though.....

A small excitable dog is accompanying us!

He is going in the back of the hire van, but last time he discovered that he could just stretch up and poke his snout of a little window into the front of the van, whereupon he started licking the bald patch on the back of my head which caused me to wake up rather suddenly!

It's going to be a busy week. I don't think we will fit in a walk up Ben Nevis but we are hoping to do a century ride near Fort William and a circuit of Mull, where my Scottish family originated. (I have never been there or even been on a ferry. I think the biggest vessel I have been on was on a boat trip down the Thames when I was a boy.) In order to get dog-sitters for those rides, we will be dog-sitting my sisters' dogs on other days so they will be walking days.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Cindy can go to my Sisters, she has two houses which is one more than me!!


Seriously though, it sounds like you need to get up there, so enjoy!

 

[ColinJ]

Cindy can go to my Sisters, she has two houses which is one more than me!!


Seriously though, it sounds like you need to get up there, so enjoy!

It's unfortunate that I don't drive, so it leaves my friend to do all the driving. She just wants to get up there ASAP, except for short breaks for the dog (and my gammy leg!).

 

[PaulB]

Having done all those routes during my bagging expedition two years ago, I can state with some experience that you should completely forget the Callander route altogether. It is longer so effectively robs you of time at your destination.

Of the other two routes, there's not a lot in the Rest and be Thankful V Crianlarich routes so it's swings and roundabouts on that choice. Apart from the boring and frustrating section past Tarbet up to Inverarnan when the road opens up a bit and allows more speed, the Crianlarich route would win every time for me on an Oban-bound trek. The scenery is better (apart from the 15 or so miles hemmed in north from Tarbet) and despite its name, Rest and be Thankful has no special qualities about it although on a clear day, you have a good view of the Cobbler. And that's always worth a picture or two.