A single-track Highland road with weather coming in.

Chapter V · The Summit Pact

The North Coast 500

SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS · MAY–JUNE, SEPTEMBER

“We can sleep at home.”

FULL DAYS · OPEN SPACE · DEEP IN IT

Why this North Coast 500

Five hundred miles and the distance is the trip.

Single-track with passing places, weather that arrives sideways, and the truth about midges in July. Comfort is negotiable here on purpose — but the rooms in Applecross are booked in February, so the planning is not.

What Chapter V is →

The shape of the three days

DAY 1

Inverness to Applecross, the long way

DAY 2

Bealach na Bà, and the road north

DAY 3

Durness, and the coast that nobody drives

This chapter also ranks

The DolomitesIceland's Ring RoadPatagoniaNew Zealand's South IslandThe Canadian Rockies

This edition

The three days of this edition are written. They are not open yet, because we do not yet know they are yours.

The North Coast 500 is where Chapter V goes. If that is not the chapter the two of you share, we would send you somewhere else — and write it differently.

Twenty questions each, answered separately, about fifteen minutes. What comes back is the chapter the two of you share — and the edition written in its voice.

Find your chapter

NO ACCOUNT NEEDED · SEPARATE DEVICES · PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF

CHAPTERS · THE NORTH COAST 500 · CHAPTER V · THE SUMMIT PACT
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