Thursday, 5 June 2014

Photo's from the 2014 TGO Challenge


Rather than wait until I've got time to put together some sort of write up I thought I'd share a few photo's from our crossing now. 

The selection of photo's below cover the first half of our crossing, from Strathcarron to Luachair Mhor.

Day 0 - Home to Strathcarron

The Strathcarron Hotel

View from the footbridge at Strathcarron Station

Sunset from the Strathcarron Hotel

Day 1 - Strathcarron to Maol-bhuidhe Bothy


@munro277 & @leerockwell15 checking our route

View to Bendronaig Lodge


Topping up water supplies

Home for night 1, Maol-bhuidhe Bothy

Day 2 - Maol-bhuidhe Bothy to Glen Affric wild camp

1st river crossing of the day








Day 3 - Glen Affric to Meall na Doire wild camp

Track along Loch Affric

We walked with Alistair Whitaker for much of Day 3



@munro277 by Loch nan Gillain





Day 4 - Meall na Doire to Fort Augustus



Gear drying

Distant inversion
Fort Augustus

Day 5 - Fort Augustus to Chalybeate Springs wild camp





Day 6 - Chalybeate Springs to Luachair Mhor wild camp
Carn Deag


Tea stop :-)


The full route walked can be seen here, the map shows the live tracking data recorded during our crossing using a Spot 3 messenger. In all we walked just over 365km with 9203m of ascent in a little over 12 days and I can honestly say I enjoyed every minute of it. Part 2 of my video series covering our crossing will hopefully be up tomorrow, thanks again for all the kind words and comments regarding part 1.


 Matt
Posted by
Labels: , , , , ,

4 comments:

  1. Andrew W5 June 2014 at 21:09

    There are some jolly nice photo's there!
    It all takes me back to previous trips..
    Soon be time to apply again!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. OutdoorsMH6 June 2014 at 12:47

      Thanks Andrew, I doubt it'll be in 2015 but I'll definitely be back on the TGOC at some point :-)

      Delete
  2. Headshed7 June 2014 at 09:43

    Some cracking photo's there! Have you photo shopped any of them, or is it just the natural lighting? I really must get up to Scotland to do some walking / camping, maybe even do the TGO one year to. So glad you enjoyed it and a job well done. Looking forward to more pictures and enjoying the video's to!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. OutdoorsMH8 June 2014 at 19:01

      Thanks Headshed, no photoshop but most of them have had a quick trip through Lightroom, typically 30 seconds adjustment at most

      Delete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)