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TGOC 2017: Day 13 – Dunnottar Castle to Montrose, the Challenge dinner and musings

Dawn at the East Coast. Finally.

TGOC 2017: Day 12 – Charr Bothy to Stonehaven (and the finish)

Every film series has that inevitable part which gets – for want of a better phrase, A Bit Rubbish. It’s inevitable, really, you just can’t keep up that non-stop action without the plot not making sense, and you end up watching the glittering, stupendously expensive CGI effects and not caring one jot about the protagonists.Continue reading “TGOC 2017: Day 12 – Charr Bothy to Stonehaven (and the finish)”

TGOC 2017: Day 11 – Tarfside to Charr Bothy

With the gathering at Tarfside over, we head over the hills to Charr for our first bothy stay of the trip.

TGOC2017: Days 9 & 10 – Braemar to Ballater & Ballater to Tarfside

Answers on a post-card. I believe this is Altdourie?

We take the easy route to Ballater, then decide to head back over the tops to Tarfside, probably biting off more than we can chew..

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)”