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Hiking Across Scotland
The document provides an overview of the TGO Challenge, a coast-to-coast hiking event in Scotland that attracts about 300 participants each year and allows them up to 15 days to complete their routes. It includes detailed information on planning, preparation, gear recommendations, and a timeline for application and hiking stages. Additionally, personal anecdotes from the hike highlight the challenges and beauty of Scotland's landscape throughout the journey.
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Hiking Across Scotland
- 1. Backpacking Coast-to-Coast AcrossScotland Philip Werner [email_address]
- 2. Agenda TGO ChallengeOverview Preparation The Hike Q & A
- 3. The TGO ChallengeOverview
- 4. Scotland – 2010Route
- 5. About the TGOChallenge Coast-to-Coast Hike Attributed to Hamish Brown Started in 1980 300 participants a year Non-competitive 15 days maximum Design your own route Solo or in a group Foot travel only Camp or B&B Average 180 miles
- 6. Repeat Offenders CourtesyAlan Sloman
- 7. Planning Help andAdvice Mike Knipe, Northern Pies Chris Townsend, Townsend Outdoors Martin Rye, Summit and Valley
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- 11. Getting into theChallenge Scottish hill walking experience required, but can be waived An Tealloch, West Highlands Eildon Hills, Scottish Borders
- 12. Challenge Timeline October15 - Applications Due December 1 – Hiker Selection February 28 – Route Plans Due March 30 – Vetter Comments May 13-14 – Start Point Sign-outs 3 check-ins with Challenge Control May 26 & 27– Sign Out in Montrose Banquet at Park Hotel
- 13. Backpacking in theStates White Mountain Trails
- 14. There is no“trail”
- 15. Cross Country Hikingin Scotland Scottish Rights of Way Law Unpredictable Weather Snow and Rain In May, 19 hours of Daylight Natural Barriers Mountain Ranges and Passes Great Glen (Loch Ness) Rivers Bogs Sparsely Populated Learn a Little Gaelic Different Map Coordinate System
- 16. Guidelines for FirstTime Challengers Take a Low Level Route Follow River Valleys Verify all Bridges Use Hill Tracks Avoid High Mountain Passes Make sure Towns on Maps Have Shops or Inhabitants
- 17. Challenge Route PlanVetter Response, with route amendments and suggestions
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- 19. Raising Charity forMy Walk
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- 21. Gear Choices Shoes– Trail Runners – Dry Quickly Shelter – Pyramid Tarp- Wind Resistance Bivy Bag with Head Net – Water Resistance/Bugs Backpack – Cuben Fiber - Lightweight Chlorine Dioxide – Water Treatment 1 Qt Plastic Bottle – Hydration Navigation – Garmin Geko 301 – Position Checks Tracking/Emergency– SPOT II GPS Messenger Stove – Snowpeak Giga – Fast Bad Choice
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- 24. Boston to ShielBridge Boston to Dublin - Fly Dublin to Glasgow – Fly Glasgow to Shiel Bridge - Cab Eyjafjallajökull
- 25. Scotland – 2010TGO Route Shiel Bridge Fort Augustus Kinguissie Lochnagar Montrose
- 26. Shiel Bridge –Kintail Lodge
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- 28. Shiel Bridge toFort Augustus (~50 miles)
- 29. Five Sisters ofKintail
- 30. Day 1, Dawnat Shiel Bridge
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- 34. Canban Bothy –Lunch Stop
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- 36. Day 1, SputanBan Waterfall
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- 39. Glen Affric –Looking Back
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- 41. Mam Sodhail SummitRidge
- 42. Day 2, SouthSide, Glen Affric
- 43. Tree Farms nearGlen Affric
- 44. Road to FortAugustus
- 45. Fort Augustus toKingussie
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- 48. Looking Back toLoch Ness
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- 55. Garva Bridge, Roadto Laggan
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- 64. Feshie Bridge, TheLast Bridge
- 65. The Trees ofGlen Feshie
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- 69. Source of theFeshie
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- 71. Pass through theCairngorms to the Dee
- 72. White Bridge overthe River Dee
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- 79. Stan and Bill’s,Callater Lodge
- 80. My First BaconButtie
- 81. Glen Callater andJocks Road
- 82. Graham Lewis –Mr REI
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- 85. The Stuic andLoch nan Eun
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- 94. Hiking Down toGlen Lee
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- 96. St Drostan’s -Tarfside
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- 98. The Ladies ofSt. Drostan’s
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- 102. First Glimpse ofthe Sea
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- 105. Signing Out atChallenge Control
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Editor's Notes
- #14 I love backpacking – feel like part of a dying breed in the AMC with the emphasis on lodging and the huts. I hike about 500 miles per year, all throughout new england, including the cakskills and adirondack I also do some winter backpacking, and fair amount of peakbagging.
- #23 Note other stuffed animals on challenge
- #32 Glen of slabs, along river croe
- #37 The Next morning all of the tops are covered in snow. I loll around for a while in my bag. Have some breakfast, and by then the snow has melted.
- #38 Considered the most beatuiful loch in scotland
- #39 Heart filled with joy Massive cataracts up this gully. It’s raining.
- #40 Not many trees, and you’ll see later that they’re fenced off to protect them from deer.
- #41 I had been anticipating snow at this time of year – I was going to have to make a call about whther I climbed itor not.
- #42 I was standing on snow bridge, alone, need an ice axe.
- #44 Fences to protect tress all around glen affric
- #45 Trees grow differently – first cultivated, amazingly dense, grow on mounds, probably dead stumps. Very eerie and imprentrable
- #47 Built by Genral wade – old miltary road – built in 1731
- #50 50 mile view, see all the way back to Glen affric
- #53 Really getting into the challenge, now, lay back in the grass
- #56 Road walk hot, meet two other chanllenger s both name ddave and one has a luggage cart
- #57 Gas story – nick and his dah catch up with me
- #58 This is an esate, young group east fresh heather shoots
- #59 On this mound, controlled the river crossing for on this side of the highland.
- #78 Balmoral estate – royal mountain, favorite of queen, lord byron poem
- #80 Bacon buttie, Price Charles, challenge tradition for over 30 years – people camped there.
- #81 Opportune – because I discovered that I was running out of food!
- #82 Jocks Road – Scottish Rights of Way story
- #92 2 miles long surrounded by cliffs, old beach forest, glas alt shiel bothy – all on balmoral estate, deer herds – hundred of them
- #93 Moont keen in distance, very boggy here
- #100 Bull, barking dogs