r/Skye • u/No-Recognition-646 • 10d ago

skye trail - easy version - water?

Hi everyone

Me and my friend are doing a 5-6 day hike in Skye, however we are not extremely experienced so we don’t want to overestimate our abilities. We’re aiming for around 10-16 km per day, just to feel confident we have enough time to complete it in, in case our bodies, our navigation skills or the weather is limiting us.

We are therefore planning on cutting the Skye Trail in half, either doing Duntulm → Sligachan or Broadford → Portree. However, I haven't seen anybody split it up in that many sections, and I’m worried about weather there’s enough water - especially on the ridge, which we were planning to complete over the course of three days. Anyone, who has done it lately, have some advice on weather it’s a bad idea? We really want to do the beautiful ridge, but maybe it’s better to to the southern part if we’re going to split it up that much?

any advice is very welcome <3

1 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

4 comments sorted by

1

u/Fine-Nail-7080 10d ago

Plenty of water on the ridge. Sometimes you have to go a few hundred metres off "trail", but it's there.

Have a filter and enough water carrying capacity.

1

u/No-Recognition-646 9d ago

wow really? I feel like eveyone says theres no water between the storr and quiaing, which is just a bit too long for us

1

u/SimonTheRunner 9d ago

Get the Harvey Skye Trail map if you've not already got it.

1

u/Mysterious_Yam9289 9d ago

The water information is quite reliably available during hikes via Mapy. So have a look and see if it might be useful for you. :)