About Journeys
Regenerative adventures: Positively impacting nature and local communities
How will your adventure have a positive impact on the environment, local community and you?
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We employ local guides. As well as sharing their love of their home with you, they will tell you stories of the landscape, its history & the nature restoration taking place.
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No matter how you arrive at Comrie Croft, you will leave for your trip on foot or by bike (no private vehicles are used).
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Travelling slowly through our Scottish landscape, you will have time to stop and appreciate the natural world around you. This makes us happy and positive and we are sure it will do the same for you.
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Our trips allow you to be in the moment and leave the stresses of modern life behind. There is something about being physically active in nature that just makes you feel good.
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All food on our trips is locally grown, sourced & prepared. Supporting our local economy, reducing food miles and providing delicious fresh seasonal food is very important to us.
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Your trip directly supports rewilding Comrie Croft. Ecological surveys have shown this is working! In the past few years we've witnessed the return of Red Squirrels, White-Tailed Eagles (the largest bird of prey in the UK), Pine Martin and Red Kites.
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More than 40 people's livelihoods are based at the Croft. Our local buying policy means that more than 80% of your spend is retained locally. And as active partners in our community, we are especially involved in getting people outdoors and appreciating our natural environment.
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By booking a Journey you’ll support the MTB Trail Therapy Programme. Two of the very first Trail Therapy practitioners work at Comrie Croft. They deliver this important programme, FREE, twice a year to people who are struggling with their mental health.
Bikepacking at Comrie Croft: Freedom to roam, powered by you
At Comrie Croft, we combine two of our greatest passions—cycling and camping—into the ultimate outdoor adventure: bikepacking. It’s a simple and adventurous way to explore the outdoors. For us, it’s all about the freedom to travel at your own pace and connect with nature along the way. Learn more about our guided and self-guided bikepacking trips below.
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Guiding: Join our highly experienced guides on an unlimited trail network
Comrie Croft sits on the edge of the Scottish Highlands. We are connected to miles of magnificent trails–wave through oak woodlands, past picturesque waterfalls and ancient Pictish standing stones. Our professional guides have years of experience and in-depth local knowledge. Join them on a guided Journey, where they’ll share this special place with you.
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MEET YOUR GUIDES
Emily Greaves
HEAD GUIDE & COACH
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Emily has a wealth of experience beyond mountain biking making her a genuinely interesting guide and great companion. She is an adventurer who thrives in the outdoor environment.
Commissioned into the Royal Engineers at age 23, Emily was a trailblazer. The first female to serve with 20 Squadron Royal Engineers and first female to lead a ‘recce troop’. Whilst in the forces she saw service in Northern Ireland and Iraq, and managed engineering projects in Belize and Vanuatu. After leaving the army she worked for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Georgia, Ethiopia and the UN in Nepal. Emily settled in Comrie in 2008 to pursue a career in the outdoors.
Emily has over 25 years experience of leading in the outdoors. She has trekked, climbed and cycled mountains all over the world including the Simien and Bale Mountains in Ethiopia, Upper Mustang in Nepal, the Caucasus Mountains, Alps and Pyrenees. She was the first person to qualify as a MTB Trail Therapy Practitioner.
Emily has competed in some of the toughest sporting challenges in the world. From 2-day mountain marathons, extreme triathlons and adventure racing to 24hr mountain bike races in the middle of winter and the infamous Highland Trail 550. Her tales of endurance are fascinating.
Thriving on type 2 fun Emily is often found on top of a mountain with her bike, leaving some people wondering how and why!
When not riding one of her many bikes, you’ll find her knitting hats, cold water dipping and enjoying the outdoors with her family.
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British Cycling Level 3 Mountain Bike Leader
British Cycling Level 2 Coach
Mountain Bike Trail Therapy Practitioner
British Cycling Mountain Bike Tutor
Cycling Scotland Go MTB Level 5 Instructor
Mountain Leader Summer
Silver Velotech
Outdoor First Aid
Member of the PVG scheme
Emily Wormald
MTB GUIDE
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Em is a Level 3 MTB guide, and Level 2 MTB coach, but more importantly loves being in wild places with her bike. A keen gravel rider, mountain biker and bikepacker, Em lives just outside of the Lake District.
During the pandemic, Em saw the need for community and confidence building on bikes (as well as wanting some new friends), so she founded the Lakes Gravel Gang, a women's gravel cycling community, which is now a joy-filled community of women riding bikes together. She delivers mechanics skills sessions, intro to bikepacking weekends and works for a family cycling website - but also loves wild swims, cafe trips and a good a Netflix binge!
Em will be the first to suggest a cafe stop or to cheer you on on a technical section of trail.
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British Cycling Level 3 Mountain Bike Leader
British Cycling Level 2 Coach
Summer Mountain Leader
Outdoor Leadership Degree
Outdoor First Aid
Member of the PVG scheme
Leanne Whitehead
MTB GUIDE & COACH
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Leanne is a mountain bike leader and coach who is passionate about getting more people riding bikes. She counts Comrie Croft as one of her favourite places to ride and loves showing clients the trails and helping them build confidence on corners, rocks, and drops. She is especially interested in increasing the number of women and girls on bikes. Her second passion is cake, and no ride is complete without it!
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British Cycling Level 2 Mountain Bike Leader
Cycling Scotland Go MTB Level 5 Instructor
Outdoor First Aid
Member of the PVG scheme
Scott Murray
MTB GUIDE & COACH
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Scott has been riding a bike for as long as he can remember. From jumping over anything he could find to many trips up north biking in the Cairngorms with his family.
Scott moved to Fort William to complete a leadership in the outdoors course with the sole aim of turning his obsessive bike hobby into a job. It worked!
Scott is a superb coach, his relaxed manner puts the most nervous rider at ease. He can ride the gnarliest of gnar, breaking it down into bite sized chunks so you can too!
Currently back at uni studying counselling part time. Scott is passionate about the positive effect two wheels has on mental health. Everybody could do with some trail therapy.
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Trail Cycle Leader
British Cycling Level 2 Coach
Mountain Bike Trail Therapy Practitioner
Cycling Scotland Go MTB Level 5 Instructor
Gold Velotech
Certificate in outdoor leadership
Outdoor First Aid
Member of the PVG scheme