Kintail Compass Challenge

BACK HOME AT MORVICH

2010-05-25T17:56:00.003+01:00

We arrived back to lovely sunny Morvich at 15.57 to a fantastic welcome by friends, family, a piper, cake and champagne.
1200 miles of cycling in 3 days 22 hours and 57 minutes is quite an achievement by the cyclists but would not have been possible without the commitment of the organisers and partiularliy the support team of Shiela, Howard, Frank and Mike who did an incredible job, thanks guys!
Lets hope that this is the first of many successful fund raising events that will contribute towards the "New HQ appeal".

INVERGARRY

2010-05-25T16:04:00.002+01:00

At Invergarry at 1340, so should make it to Morvich later this afternoon.

ARDNAMURCHAN POINT

2010-05-25T08:26:00.001+01:00

Arrived at 0300 and ready for a sleep.
Hope to be back at Morvich sometime this afternoon!

CORRAN FERRY

2010-05-24T22:27:00.001+01:00

Just arrived at Corran Ferry, lovely ride up the Oban road.
Hoping to reach Ardnamurchan Point at first light

GLASGOW

2010-05-24T16:14:00.001+01:00

Just north of Glasgow at 1415 and Ritchie drew the short straw and will have the pleasure of cycling "The Rest and Be Thankful."
Then on to Corran where Chris will relieve him!

GIRVAN

2010-05-24T07:58:00.001+01:00

Just south of Girvan but struggling with head wind, but we will not be beaten by a bit on wind, we will just pedal harder!

MULL OF GALLOWAY

2010-05-24T07:29:00.003+01:00

Arrived at the light house at MoG just before 0200 and starting the journey back home.
North of Stranraer at 0600.

GALLOWAY

2010-05-23T23:53:00.001+01:00

Just arrived at Newton Stewart.
Nice moon lit ride through the forest park but now heading for a sleep.

MULL OF GALLOWAY

2010-05-23T21:51:00.000+01:00

At the southern point, Mull of Galloway, at 0130h on Monday morning.

MOFFAT

2010-05-23T18:45:00.002+01:00

Arrived in Moffat at 1715 where the weather is much better.
Stopping for a food break then on to Newton Stewart.
Still ahead of time, but the hills will be starting soon!

FIFE

2010-05-23T12:01:00.001+01:00

Crossed Dundee to Cowdenbeath in the pouring rain, but onwards to Edinburgh.

EDINBURGH

2010-05-23T11:59:00.000+01:00

About to arrive in Edinburgh just after 1200h. We are armed with collecting boxes and we are prepared to use them.

Queensferry Road, Charlotte Square, Lothian Road, Morningside.

DUNDEE

2010-05-23T11:54:00.003+01:00

They left Dundee at 0822h on Sunday morning. These guys are flying. Effort like this deserve support. Go to our website at http://www.kintailmrt.org.uk/ and click on the Paypal button to make a donation online.

You can send us a cheque too. http://www.kintailmrt.org.uk/money.htm

Click on the big title picture above to go to our website.

PETERHEAD

2010-05-22T23:37:00.002+01:00

Another objective reached. The most Easterly point was reached at 2315h on Saturday evening.

PORTSOY

2010-05-22T20:01:00.002+01:00

It's a beautiful still evening across most of the north-east. No less so at Portsoy when the team passed there at 1930h.

NAIRN

2010-05-22T16:58:00.002+01:00

The team phoned to say they were passing through Nairn at 1600.

CROMARTY FIRTH AND THE BLACK ISLE

2010-05-22T14:08:00.002+01:00

The team are at the Cromarty Firth and it's not long before the character of the road changes again and they reach the Black Isle.

BRORA

2010-05-22T14:03:00.001+01:00

The team were near Brora at lunchtime and still making fantastic progress.

HELMSDALE

2010-05-22T13:09:00.002+01:00

Phone call from the support team as they were having coffee in Helmsdale at 11am. The riders had been making good progress south from Dunnett Head and were currently half an hour south of Helmsdale with Paul in the saddle.

DUNNET HEAD

2010-05-22T10:38:00.005+01:00

The cycling team arrived safely at the first checkpoint at 0600 this morning (Saturday) and are now making rapid progress towards Inverness. A thank you to the staff at Tesco in Thurso for the friendly early morning service. At this stage it looks like they are about 5 hours ahead of schedule. Go for it guys!

EVANTON

2010-05-22T00:17:00.003+01:00

Outside Evanton on the A9 still making good progress northwards at 2320h this evening (Friday 21st).

Loads of encouragement required.

Encouragement can be expressed with a donation: click on the header picture above and then click on the Paypal button.

GARVE

2010-05-22T00:12:00.000+01:00

All's going well and the team reached Garve on the A835 just before 2200h this evening (Friday 21st).

AND THEY'RE OFF!

2010-05-21T23:30:00.003+01:00

The cyclists and support team got on the road on time this evening.

Final Countdown

2010-05-20T17:10:00.000+01:00

Well.. with 1 day before the cycle challenge gets underway (it's amazing how the time creeps up on you) it's a matter of getting the last of the preparations finished, getting personal gear together and controlling the itch to get on the saddle and get the wheels turning. Roll on tomorrow. A BIG Thank You to all who have shown their support and to our sponsors. See below.

What it's all about

2010-04-22T13:26:00.001+01:00

Kintail Mountain Rescue Team (KMRT) is a registered charity organisation made up by a team of dedicated unpaid volunteers.

We are based at Morvich in part of an old croft house and garage. Despite our best efforts this building is becoming impossible to maintain and as outdoor recreations increase in our area our facilities are becoming more inadequate.

KMRT are trying to raise money to build a purpose built base which will house facilities able to cope with future demands.

To this end we are hosting a series of fundraising events, the first of which members of the team will attempt to cycle from our base at Morvich to tour the four cardinal points of mainland Scotland in a continuous relay going to Dunnet Head in the north, Peterhead to the east, the Mull of Galloway to the south and Ardnamurchan to the west before ending back at Morvich while passing through many of Scotland's towns and cities along the way, covering around 1,200 miles and seeing an overall height gain topping 32,000 feet.
We hope you can follow us along our journey and any donations, greatfully received, can be made through paypal via our website http://www.kintailmrt.org.uk/
Many thanks