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TGO Challenge 2012: November 2014
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My TGO Challenge 2012 - Start to Finish, maybe. Saturday, 8 November 2014. They grow not weary. This for our forgotten heroes. On all the oceans white caps flow. You do not see crosses row on row. But those who sleep beneath sea. Rest in peace your countries free. Remembering our merchant seamen. Saturday, November 08, 2014. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Look - other people come here too! Folk who probably know better. They grow not weary. There was an error in this gadget. August...
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TGO Challenge 2012: February 2014
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My TGO Challenge 2012 - Start to Finish, maybe. Monday, 17 February 2014. TGO Challenge 2012 - Loch Callater Lodge to Shielin of Mark. Ah yes. .Loch Callater Lodge. In spite of a terribly convivial and overly imbibed preceding evening, I awoke fresh. Ok, well not fresh, but without any sort of pain. I had already decided to be more relaxed for today's yomp over to the Shielin of Mark and really just wanted to let nature take it's course and so it was. It was a beautiful morning. As I mentioned, I headed ...
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TGO Challenge 2012: July 2012
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My TGO Challenge 2012 - Start to Finish, maybe. Monday, 9 July 2012. TGO Challenge 2012 – Cannich to Drumnadrochit to Aultnagoire. Today's walking was straight-forward – after the blitz of winds that nature unleashed on the surrounding glen and mountains, I emerged from my tent early again. Packed up, not a peep from the other challengers, I was ready to go. I bade my pitch farewell. Cannich to Drum' road. Materialised. In fact I was in my element. Rainbow over the Enrick. Always time for a brew. We neve...
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TGO Challenge 2012: July 2013
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My TGO Challenge 2012 - Start to Finish, maybe. Saturday, 6 July 2013. TGO Challenge 2012 - Mar Lodge to Braemar. I can't remember if l opted for the Mar Lodge breakfast or even if one was available. If there was, l feel sure it would have been magnificent. Arriving in Braemar was a joy. I located my accomodation - an over-claimed, over-priced and under-performing "deluxe" room at the Clunie Lodge b&b - and headed straight back to town. Braemar Mountain Sports had a lot of visitors that day. I procur...
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TGO Challenge 2012: May 2012
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My TGO Challenge 2012 - Start to Finish, maybe. Tuesday, 29 May 2012. TGO Challenge 2012 - Strathcarron to Allt Riabhachain. So here it is, the culmination of nearly two years of hopeful impatience, planning, fretting, whittling and blogging. I finally, actually, really set off on my first coast to coast crossing of Scotland on the RAB TGO Challenge. This is my report. Day 1 - Strathcarron Hotel to Allt Riabhachain (above Pait Lodge) 0900h start. Somewhere in the hills above Strathcarron. Gradually and a...
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TGO Challenge 2012: August 2012
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My TGO Challenge 2012 - Start to Finish, maybe. Wednesday, 22 August 2012. TGO Challenge 2012 - Aultnagoire to Coignafearn. I woke in the morning to the sound of a magically played fiddle. Alex Sutherland was stretching his bow arm. The sound evoked all the things I think about the Highlands in a single, brief moment. I should have realised that he didn't mean he wanted to pack it in. He phoned in his route change and set off. Or maybe I set off first. I can't remember. The LRT above Wester Abercalder.
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TGO Challenge 2012: TGO Challenge 2012 - Tarfside to North Water Bridge
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My TGO Challenge 2012 - Start to Finish, maybe. Sunday, 17 August 2014. TGO Challenge 2012 - Tarfside to North Water Bridge. Bacon butties and egg sarnies were on offer in the kitchen of St Drostans. I had two. And a mug of tea too. Others missed out because they were tardy. It was their fault. Right, Andrew? With wanton abandon I walked, gingerly, across the decaying planks. They creaked a little, but I managed to escape with my life. The banks of the Esk. I think this is a 'Martin bank. I thought this ...
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TGO Challenge 2012: TGO Challenge 2012 - Shielin of Mark to Tarfside
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My TGO Challenge 2012 - Start to Finish, maybe. Thursday, 14 August 2014. TGO Challenge 2012 - Shielin of Mark to Tarfside. It's lovely sauntering along on a walk across Scotland. One can take one's time, pausing as one pleases, taking in the views and resting a while, before pressing on in a lackadaisical fashion. No one to nag one into motion. It's a bit like writing this trip report, really. Lochnagar from Muckle Cairn. The other way, from Muckle Cairn. I'm only a midgie's widgey from the east coast!
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TGO Challenge 2012: September 2013
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My TGO Challenge 2012 - Start to Finish, maybe. Sunday, 15 September 2013. TGO Challenge 2012 - Braemar to Loch Callater Lodge. Day 10, and the hangover was serious. Really serious. I had already peeped outside, and had been greeted with the beginnings of a most glorious day. I left my partially masticated petit dejeuner and swayed my wobbly self up to my room. I remember very little detail about my day in Braemar, having done little that was either specific, or particularly interesting to anyone else.
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TGO Challenge 2012: TGO Challenge 2015 - From start to finish, maybe?
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My TGO Challenge 2012 - Start to Finish, maybe. Sunday, 12 October 2014. TGO Challenge 2015 - From start to finish, maybe? The message appeared in my inbox with the heavy thud of a bundle of letters hitting the doormat. It had arrived! Sue and Ali had received my challenge application form and cheque for the 2015 crossings. Back to the moment. .not this one. But the one where I had received THE email. That's it! Maybe, just maybe, I will make the first draw. I'll be back in November with the news. I is o...
