Wild About Bikepacking

Find out more at Argyll s islands, the Inner Hebrides and Bute, offer fantastic bikepacking filled with beautiful beaches, some of the worlds best distilleries, great gravel tracks and local food experiences. Wild About Bikepacking is the third short film from Markus Stitz that is set in Argyll, selffilmed in October 2021 when he travelled along the new Bikepacking Argylls Islands route, created by Bikepacking Scotland and commissioned by CalMac Ferries and Wild About Argyll. The route maps a 496kmjourney (308 mi) connecting the Isles of Mull, Jura, Islay and Bute on a mixture of gravel tracks, singletrail, cycle paths and roads. The route also makes great use of ScotRails Highland Explorer, which provides space for up to 20 bikes, including tandems. The newly introduced train carriage offers a bikefriendly train connection between Glasgow, host city of the UCI Cycling World Cha