Loch Monar to Cnoch Hotel – TGOC 2022 part 2
Paul Myerscough goes Scottish backpacking from Torridon for the TGO Challenge. Day 3 starts from a camp beside Loch Monar.
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Torridon to Loch Monar – TGOC 2022 part 1
A personal account by Paul Myerscough of starting the TGO Challenge backpacking trip in Torridon.
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Cairngorms to Montrose backpacking in Scotland
The TGOC is about backing across Scotland. Paul Myerscough describes the route from the Cairngorms to the east coast.
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From Kingussie backpacking across the Cairngorms
The TGOC is about backpacking across Scotland. Paul Myerscough describes walking and wild camping in the Cairngorms between Kingussie and Braemar.
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Backpacking from Kinlochleven to Kingussie
The TGOC is about coast to coast backpacking in Scotland. This episode describes a chapter from Kinlochleven through the Mamores to Loch Trieg and Kingussie with great pictures, maps, and wild camping.
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Acharacle to Kinlochleven the TGOC 2021 notes: days 1-3
The TGOC is about backpacking across Scotland. Paul Myerscough this year starts in Acharacle, this chapter leading to Kinklochleven. Wild camps with midges mania as well as great walking and views.
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Knoydart – a TGO Challenge Pre-amble, or a Post-lockdown Taster?
Wildcamping and backpacking in Knoydart, West Scotland. Paul Myerscough made careful graded plans for the 60 year old who was returning for the first time in over 40 years.
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TGO Challenge 2018 – Oban to Kinnabaer: #3 from Pitlochry
The map shows the route tracked from 30 minute beacons sent by a Spot satellite tracker and captured by Phil Sorrell’s Social Hiking site. Push and pull the map in the window below to see the route in blue. Pitlochry was planned as the first night indoors. I had tried to find somewhere earlier, but
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TGO Challenge 2018 – Oban to Kinnabaer: #2 from Glen Etive
The map shows the route tracked from 30 minute beacons sent by a Spot satellite tracker and captured by Phil Sorrell’s Social Hiking site. Push and pull the map in the window below to see the route in blue. This is day 3 – there is light rain, and clouds obscure the top of
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TGO Challenge 2018 – Oban to Kinnabaer: #1 to Glen Etive
This year I captured my walk using the Spot Tracker which should record my location every 30 minutes. Is this truly representative? I always think of the occassions when I spend 30 minutes wandering in the wrong direction or zig-zagging up a hill and how in this instance it will show almost no distance travelled
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