Clockwise or Anticlockwise to Applecross

[Wooie1958]

Hi everyone, just back from a month in Scotland, west coast, highlands, John'o Groats, part of east coast, Cairngorms, Yorkshire moors & dales and back home. What a fantastic trip with mostly good weather and not a single midge. We saw Golden eagles, stags rutting, red squirrel and many seals and dolphins.
We loved Applecross, great beers and brilliant seafood, fantastic scenery. We did the trip to Applecross anticlockwise, and were very glad that we did it this way. We still had to back up twice on the hairpins to get round, but managed it OK. For the future, our suggestion for any long units is to definitely travel anticlockwise. If you go clockwise with a long unit and front wheel drive, on the hairpins you could lift 1 wheel slightly off the ground and thereby lose drive/traction.

Thank you all for your most valuable advice/comments, we penciled in another trip for next year.

:camper::drive::have fun::cheers:

Glad you went Anti-Clockwise because in my opinion that way you get the Glorious view.

We got stuck for a good 20 minutes once whilst the idiot coming up got out of the pickle he`d got himself into on one of the hairpin bends .................. LOL

I did get out to see if i could help but when i saw him " Booting It " and the smoke coming off the tyres i just turned round and went back to our van and
made myself comfy.

I wasn`t getting involved because numpties like that cause injuries.

A couple of the cars behind me were getting right worked up and thought it was me holding things up, one fellow came marching up from behind but when
he saw the problem he stopped.

I wound down the window and said " How do you propose we get past that ? " he just stomped off back to his car ......................... LOL

Eventually a 4X4 came and winched him up the bad bit.