School holiday trips away from home

Making lifelong memories. Our Adventure Trips allow you to travel to locations further from home. Each trip away is fully organised to include accommodation, meals, transport and expert guided rides, giving you the freedom to enjoy the riding, experience new places, have a great time and make new friends.

A choice of Adventures to suit all abilities and experience. We have trips that return home each night, trips away in cabins, or camping out in summer. All equipment and costs included in the fee other than personal kit. There's a trip for everyone to build confidence on the bike and independence of being away from home.

What makes our Adventures unique is the skills for adventure which builds confidence and self-reliance for our riders. Each rider will get the chance to work in a team for the shopping, preparing and cooking meals, looking after their kit, learning navigation and even a chance to lead part of the rides! All under the supervision of our experienced guide and trip leader.
Duration: Two days, no overnight
Age range: Over 9+ with experience
Ability: Able to ride blue trails and comfortable being away from home for a full day.
Programme:
Day 1 - Aboyne Trails practising skills and riding the trail features, building confidence.
Day 2 - Moray Monster Trails for a longer ride on natural terrain to progress skills.
Note the minimum wheel size for our trailer is 26".
Duration: Three day residential
Age range: Recommended age 10+
Ability: Able to ride Blue and Red trails, comfortable being away from home overnight.
Programme:
Day 1 - Travel to Aviemore set up camp and ride local trails at Cairngorm mountain.
Day 2 - Laggan Wolftrax flow and tech, swimming, and a meal out.
Day 3 - Glenlivet Bike Trails, and return home
Duration: Five day residential
Age range: Recommended age 12+
Ability: Able to ride Blue, Red and Black trails, comfortable being away from home overnight.
Programme:
Day 1 - Travel to Wolftrax to ride flow and tech.
Day 2 - Cairngorm epic ride, and beach swim.
Day 3 - Riders location choice.
Day 4 - Uplift day at Nevis Range trails.
Day 5 - Glenlivet Bike Trails, and return home.
Use our levels and trail colour grades to find out what trips are best for you to start and see how you can progress
Get the most out of our trips by building your skills and technique with our skills coaching
Ready to book your adventure? Find out the availability and prices here
Please reach us at bike57north@icloud.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
The idea of each Level is to help you pick a trip which provides an enjoyable experience but also offer challenge to enable you to develop skills to progress to the next Level. The colour grades are related to the type of trail and likely difficulty. For more details check out our Bikology section https://57north-adventures.co.uk/bikeology
Our Adventure Trips are aimed at youth riders between age 7 - 17. Sometimes younger riders have loads of experience and sometimes older riders are just starting out so if you're not sure get in touch to discuss.
Our Adventure Trips are designed for regular mountain bikers, if you are new, we welcome you to join a Trail Day or book a coaching session first to build your riding skills and confidence as you progress to towards an Adventure Trip.
You don't need camping experience as we'll show you what to do. We make it easy for first time campers and you'll come home with new camping skills and knowledge! If its your first time away, we recommend booking one of the shorter trips first.
You'll need personal equipment such as sleeping bag, camping mat, and pillow. We'll supply the equipment such as tents, cooking utensils etc, and show you how to use everything.
After booking we'll issue an extensive kit list with everything you'll need as well as kit advice. An example of a typical kit list can be seen here: https://57north-adventures.co.uk/adventure-trip-kit
Visit our booking page to join one of our scheduled Adventure Trips. Places are limited and close two weeks before the event so book as soon as you can!
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