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Tuesday, 21 May 2019

TGO Challenge Day 12 - North Water Bridge to Montrose

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Tuesday 21 May (0615-0835) Distance: around 8 miles* Weather: rainy start, dry finish The kit failures continue. After a night of rain, ...
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TGO Challenge Day 11 - Tarfside to North Water Bridge

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Monday 21 May (from 0800 to a time that neither of us can remember! Maybe 1530?) Distance: 15.5 miles?? Weather: showery St Drostans Lod...
Monday, 20 May 2019

TGO Challenge Day 10 - Gelder Shiel Bothy to Tarfside

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Sunday 19 May (0625-1455) Distance: 19.3 miles Ascent: around 750m Weather: foggy start, but with sunny intervals later. A couple of driz...

TGO Challenge Day 9 - between Mar Lodge and Braemar to Gelder Shiel Bothy

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Saturday 18 May (0920-1000 and 1230-1630ish) Distance: 11 or so miles Weather: rain almost all day I slept incredibly well last night an...
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Friday, 17 May 2019

TGO Challenge Day 8 - Ruighe nan Leum to between Mar Lodge and Braemar

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Friday 17 May (0730-1645) Distance: 17 miles Weather: overcast start breaking up to give wall-to-wall sunshine by mid-afternoon It was a...
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TGO Challenge Day 7 - Newtonmore to Ruighe nan Leum

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Thursday 16 May (0800-1635) Distance: 18 miles Ascent: 550m? Weather: wall-to-wall sunshine but cooler than yesterday, with a cooling bre...
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TGO Challenge Day 6 - before Coignafearn Lodge to Newtonmore

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Wednesday 16 May (0705-1400) Distance: 14 miles Ascent: 650m? (if I had the route sheet to hand I'd check) Weather: wall-to-wall suns...
Wednesday, 15 May 2019

TGO Challenge Day 5 - Ault-na-Goire to by Coignafearn Lodge

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Tuesday 14 May (0745-1700) Distance: 18.75 miles Ascent: around 650m Weather: a few bits of whispy cloud but none obscuring the sun. Mi...
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TGO Challenge Day 4 - NE of Loch Aslaich to Ault-na-Goire

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Monday 13 May (0820-1100, 1500-1535, 1625-1710 ish) Distance: 11 miles Weather: early high level cloud clearing to sunshine. Last night...
Monday, 13 May 2019

TGO Challenge Day 3 - Cougie to NE of Loch Aslaich (Balmacaan Forest)

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Sunday 12 May (0820-1750) Distance: just short of 17 miles Ascent: no idea Weather: high level cloud coming and going but otherwise sunny...
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TGO Challenge Day 2 - Loch Gaorsaic to Cougie

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Saturday 10 May (0745-1630) Distance: 16 miles (plus an extra mile for me) Ascent: uncounted (plus an extra 150m for me) Weather: just...

TGO Challenge Day 1 - Dornie to Loch Gaorsaic

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10 May (0840-1630) Distance: 14 miles? Ascent: 650m? Weather: a few showers but also some sunshine Dornie is a good Challenge start ...
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TGO Challenge Day 0 - to Dornie

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Thursday 9 May Bertie-the-Motorhome was abandoned at a caravan storage site, a Star of the First Order (as I referred to him when we first...
Sunday, 5 May 2019

Sunday 5 May - Dun Rig and Friends (NT253315; 744m)

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The walk that got deferred from Friday to Saturday (for a better weather forecast) got deferred again to today when I discovered, on Friday ...
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Thursday, 2 May 2019

Thursday 2 May - Cademuir Hill & White Meldon

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Cademuir Hill (NT241376; 416m) I'd thought I would declare today as a rest day, as all of my hills around here required a drive and Ber...