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TGOC2017: Day 8 – Derry Lodge to Braemar

The lost property cupboard about to get overloaded

We had done the hard bit, with two-thirds of our Munros climbed, some massive hill days and the huge effort needed to catch ourselves up. Now, beginning to slow ourselves down was starting to bear fruit. All that was now dashed upon the rocks, like a galleon in a storm, with me arriving in toContinue reading “TGOC2017: Day 8 – Derry Lodge to Braemar”

TGOC2017: Day 7 – Rothiemuchus Forest to Derry Lodge

A promising start to the day turns awry by the time we pull up in to camp, with difficult choices to make.

TGOC2017: Day 6 – Aviemore to the Allt Druidh

Our rest day has an unwelcome surprise, before we head in to the Cairngorms and the Lairig Ghru tomorrow..

TGOC 2017: Day 5 – A resurgence. (Upper Findhorn to Aviemore)

We take our FWA to join the Burma road, and return to civilization.

TGOC 2017: Day 4 – Drumnadroicht, Loch Ness and the Monadhliath

Marching to the Drum Our 5:30 am alarm had been (rightly) ignored, turning it off immediately and catching a few more precious minutes – but by 6 am we knew we should be moving. Why bother doing 95% of the effort on Day 3, if we were not going to bother with the end ofContinue reading “TGOC 2017: Day 4 – Drumnadroicht, Loch Ness and the Monadhliath”

TGOC 2017: Day 3 – The epic (Carn Eige to Drumnadroicht)

When planning our route we were not only seeking to complete the coast-to-coast, but we were seeking a challenge which would test us physically and mentally – and it seemed things were coming to a head to offer us exactly that. For Day 3, already our expected longest day in distance at nearly 40km, weContinue reading “TGOC 2017: Day 3 – The epic (Carn Eige to Drumnadroicht)”