My 2018 Challenge was planned as a fairly easy walk from Shiel Bridge to Johnshaven. Unfortunately, I injured my leg in Ballater (no idea how I did this) and by the time I got to Dinnet I could barely walk so I had to withdraw. However, I consoled myself with the facts that the weather had been superb, I’d already done most of my route from Dinnet to Johnshaven as day walks and I had the best of the Scottish scenery.
I’m not one for writing day by day trip diaries but I’ve summed up my challenge experience in these four posts.
My route: Shiel Bridge to Johnshaven
I spent 10 years from 1968 to 1978 stravaiging around the Scottish hills. I was away most weekends climbing or walking…
TGOC-2018: Loch Mullardoch
The north shore of Loch Mullardoch is not a Challenge trade route. From Strathcarron, the obvious route west is via Loch…
TGOC-2018: Ten Images
Digital photography is wonderful but it’s too easy to take too many pictures. Many of us have computer hard drives…
TGOC-2018: An Unfortunate Ending
I shouldn’t be writing this post tonight. I should have been on my last wild camp of the 2018 TGO Challenge in…