DRAFT — a hub page linking to 2 individual ride write-ups below, each with its own real GPS route map and stats.

Scotland · Argyll & Bute

A short camper trip out west from the Central Belt — the Cowal peninsula, the Kyles of Bute, and the Crinan Canal.

Argyll is a proper trip out from home turf, not a training loop — out past Loch Lomond and down the Cowal peninsula to the water. Two rides logged here, two days apart in June 2024: a short gravel spin along Loch Riddon into Tighnabruaich, looking straight across the Kyles of Bute at the Isle of Bute, and the Crinan Canal towpath further north, ridden both ways in one sitting.

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The scale of it (from Strava): 2 rides logged so far, 10–12 June 2024, both flat/short by Gravel Health standards — a handful more rides sit nearby in the wider Argyll area (Dunoon, Ardrishaig, Tarbert, Skipness) not yet written up.

The two rides built so far

The gravel one

Kames to Tighnabruaich

Loch Riddon shoreline gravel, looking straight across the Kyles of Bute.

18.4km · 269m climbing
The flat one

Crinan Canal

Coffee, cake and a flat towpath, ridden both directions in one day.

13.9km each way · 23m climbing
The Cowal peninsula and the Crinan Canal, roughly a 2–3 hour drive west of home turf.

📝 Kevin — needs your input

  • Were Dunoon, Ardrishaig, Tarbert and Skipness the same trip, or separate visits — worth their own pages?
  • Was this a camper trip (Hymer) or a day drive out and back?

Source: Kevin's Strava export, 2 rides built in full so far (June 2024), real GPS tracks, plus real photos from the "Argyll – Kames Tighnabruaich & Kyles of Bute" and "Crinan Canal" folders in the Google Photos archive.