Isle of Skye Trail – 7 Days, 80 Miles – Wild Camping Scotland

The full Skye trail in one video, south to north. 80 miles backpacking and wild camping the Isle of Skye, Scotland in a Lanshan. I undertook this thru-hike starting at Broadford and made a vlog of the entire trip. I wild camped at Boreraig on night one having started pretty late at 6pm.
The second day I hiked through Suisnish and past Loch Slapin to Torrin where I found Mrs Mack’s food van for a bacon and egg roll. I turned right at Kilmarie, over the top and wild camped at Camasunary next to Bla Bheinn.
Next morning I walked around the coast past the bad step at Loch nan Leachd, then to Loch Corusik where I spotted a person camping using their aeroplane! I headed over the mountain pass and up the River Sligachan past Marsco and Sgurr Nan Gillean at stopped at Seumas’ Bar for a beer and a burger. I then and camped right next to Loch Sligachan as the campsite was closed.
On the fourth day was a long road walk on the B883 towards Portree where I was glad to put my head down for the night in a real bed at Tongadale hotel!
After that was a hike over the mountain ridge towards Bearreraig and I was lucky enough to set up my tent right next to the old man of storr.
The Trotternish ridge on day 6 was presented the biggest challenge and it was also the roughest day with extreme winds and mist covering the peaks. I climbed Beinn Edra and Hartaval that day amongst many other peaks. I then hiked through the Quirang, but had to carry on through until I found a water supply in the valley beyond.
For the final day of walking I headed down the hillside towards Kilmaluag bay and my final desination for the night was “The Lookout” bothy at Rubha Hunish.
I officially finished up next morning at the red phone box a mile away.

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Chapters:
Intro 0:00
The Marble Line 0:23
Boreraig 3:53
Towards Torrin 9:00
Off The Road 14:08
Camasunary 16:45
Heading to the Bad Step 21:19
Rubha Buidhe 24:16
The Bad Step 25:55
Loch Coruisk 30:34
Mountain Pass 31:46
Shade for Dinner 34:01
River Sligachan 37:07
Failing to Find a Campsite 40:41
Loch Sligachan 42:40
The Road Walk 44:02
Portree 46:01
Clag Ridge 50:34
Feeling at Holm 54:54
The Storr 56:52
Trotternish Ridge in bad weather 1:01:36
Quirang 1:06:45
Fir Bhreugach 1:08:10
Heading Downstream 1:10:39
The Lookout Bothy 1:12:42
Finished at Last 1:16:20

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