Day: June 10, 2018

Repeating the trick of not laying down to sleep until properly tired worked again last night, but it does have the side effect of making it a late start. I'm just finishing my packing up when Graham happens by, as if he's deliberately timed it thus (he hasn't). So we walk together again, the first … Continue reading TGO Challenge 2018: Day 12 – Fungle Road to Glen Dye →

Yesterday's company got me through the day I know would otherwise have broken me, but today I have low expectations for accompaniment. The original plan was to attempt to get to Tarfside in a single day, including an ascent of Mount Keen which would have made today the hardest day of all on this year's … Continue reading TGO Challenge 2018: Day 11 – Ballater to Fungle Road →

Any thought I had yesterday of a better night's sleep in a proper bed, was proven to be spectacularly wrong overnight. Not only did I struggle to get to sleep, but to say asleep, and was up in the middle of the night with a massive coughing fit. Perhaps it was also the fact that … Continue reading TGO Challenge 2018: Day 10 – Braemar to Ballater →