This was to be an exciting high level route – a reward from the tribulations of boggy ground and dangerous river crossing from the day before. Leaving the bothy Maol Bhuidhe My original plan – which is reflected in the map – was to camp the night somewhere near Carnach and start the day on […]
This was to be the “day of crossings”. Of 13 days of walking Day 2 was the one I was most nervous about. If the rivers were in spate several parts of the route could become impassible requiring long diversions. Dealing with wide and deep streams with a heavy pack and walking solo could be risky, and
TGOC 2014 #2: Craig to Maol-bhuidhe bothy via Lurgh Mohr & Bidein a’ Choire Sheasgaich Read More »
You can pull the route map for this walk around inside the box below and zoom in and out. Usually a click on a picture will zoom it to full screen, and there is a link to more pictures of this walk at the bottom of the post. Loch Torridon To reach Torridon from The
TGOC 2014 #1: Torridon to Craig via Sgorr Ruadh and Fuar Tholl Read More »
There has been some strange happenings with my access to OS mapping. After a couple of weeks it suddenly became unavailable. At first I thought it was a service problem, but other sites continued to work normally. Without help from OS Technical Support all I could do was set up a new user ID and
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Morar & The Way East! Here’s some of the pictures. Click on any picture below …. you will probably a a zoomed image showing more detail. The location map feature is not available here. TGO blogs for following years include OS maps of the route which no longer work on the original Google’s Blogspot posts.
TGOC Morar to St Drostan’s – The Pictures Read More »
After Edzel it becomes a typical UK farming landscape with fields of green wheat and barley and the bright yellow of blooming rape. My final destination was St Cyrus and the route was along country lanes. One fellow clipping his hedge said ‘you’ll be the first today!’ – as if he and other locals follow
2012 TGOC day 13 the east coast! Read More »
Tarfside, just a few miles away, is famous for a TGO welcome with bacon rolls and cups of tea.I scimped on my camp breakfast and started walking soon after 7. A little down the valley with sun streaming down I caught a vision of a girl standing up in the heather next to her brightly
2012 TGOC day 12 the green fields from Tarfside Read More »
The weather had set fair so the night spent at the top of the Geldie burn was cold but not threatening. My plan for last night was Mar lodge down in the valley. I got there about 11 this morning after the last TGOers that stayed over had left. Its nice to see signs specifically
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We have to call ‘Control’ regularly so that our progress is monitored and to pickup messages about weather and conditions. We were told ‘too much snow on top of Cairngorms please use foul weather alternatives’. This suited me and my poor feet. A gentle stroll on the track up the Feshie valley and down the
2012 TGOC challenge day 9 to the top of Feshie Burn Read More »
The route out of this area involved some pathless navigation up one valley to the plateau and then down another valley eventually to join a track about 10km away. In theory this sort of navigation should be relatively easy driven by the direction of the valleys. In practice, on the ground, it is not so
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