Meet Markus!Markus Stitz is a German-born route designer, filmmaker, photographer and writer, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He caught the adventure bug while living in New Zealand for two years and has explored Britain extensively since he moved here in 2009.
After cycling 34,000km around the world on a single-speed mountain bike in 2015/16 he founded Bikepacking Scotland in 2017 and has worked extensively across Scotland as a consultant and designing gravel and bikepacking routes for Perthshire Gravel, Wild About Argyll, Go East Lothian, the Cateran Ecomuseum and others.
He is an ultra-endurance racer, with three successful finishes of the Highland Trail 550, Silk Road Mountain Race and Atlas Mountain Race. Markus writes for a wide variety of magazines and online publications including Singletrack, Cycling UK, Crnked, Cyclingtips and Yellow Jersey.
Markus is the author of the first comprehensive guide book for gravel cycling in Britain, Great British Gravel Rides, published by Vertebrate.
Markus Stitz is a German-born route designer, filmmaker, photographer and writer, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He caught the adventure bug while living in New Zealand for two years and has explored Britain extensively since he moved here in 2009.
After cycling 34,000km around the world on a single-speed mountain bike in 2015/16 he founded Bikepacking Scotland in 2017 and has worked extensively across Scotland as a consultant and designing gravel and bikepacking routes for Perthshire Gravel, Wild About Argyll, Go East Lothian, the Cateran Ecomuseum and others.
He is an ultra-endurance racer, with three successful finishes of the Highland Trail 550, Silk Road Mountain Race and Atlas Mountain Race. Markus writes for a wide variety of magazines and online publications including Singletrack, Cycling UK, Crnked, Cyclingtips and Yellow Jersey.
Markus is the author of the first comprehensive guide book for gravel cycling in Britain, Great British Gravel Rides, published by Vertebrate.
Published Routes
Drovers Trail - Stage 4Distance 82.3 kmAscent 1404 mTime 7-10 hrs
Duntanlich Weekend GrinderDistance 32.8 kmAscent 684 mTime 3-4 hrs
Drovers Trail - Stage 2Distance 90.9 kmAscent 1643 mTime 7-10 hrs
Grand Tour of RannochDistance 118.6 kmAscent 1343 mTime 9 - 11 hrs
Drovers TrailDistance 326.2 kmAscent 5939 mTime 4 days
Blair Atholl Gravel AdventureDistance 23 kmAscent 313 mTime 2 -3 hrs
Drovers Trail - Stage 1Distance 86.9 kmAscent 1418 mTime 7-10 hrs
Dunkeld Hermitage LoopDistance 11.9 kmAscent 171 mTime 1 - 2 hrs
Aberfeldy Grand TourDistance 43.6 kmAscent 723 mTime 4 - 6 hrs
Dunkeld Lochs LoopDistance 26.6 kmAscent 382 mTime 2 - 3 hrs
Drovers Trail - Stage 3Distance 66.1 kmAscent 1368 mTime 7-10 hrs
Blair Atholl Bothy TripDistance 26.9 kmAscent 553 mTime 2 -3 hrs
Dunkeld Moors LoopDistance 62.7 kmAscent 688 mTime 6 - 7 hrs
Cairngorms Grand TourDistance 73.8 kmAscent 895 mTime 6 – 8 hrs
Grand Tour of ComrieDistance 69.5 kmAscent 1135 mTime 7 - 9 hrs
Aberfeldy Gravel TourDistance 21.8 kmAscent 505 mTime 2 - 3 hrs- There are no results for this search, try a different search