This is an annual posting to welcome the hundred or so new souls to the TGO Challenge.

With just nine days before we launch our bodies eastwards from the exquisite West Coast of Scotland there will be a few thoughts niggling away at the back of your mind. For instance:

How will you cope with the pack on your back for a fortnight?
Are your navigation skills up to the job?
Will you miss your dog/cat/budgie?
Are you nervous?

But I say don't let these doubts nag away at you - Here are a few real things to worry about:

Cautionary Tales, Part 1: The Tick Bite

Cautionary Tales, Part 2: Hotel bathrooms

Cautionary Tales, Part 3: Choose your walking partners carefully

Cautionary Tales, Part 4: Sticking together

Cautionary Tales, Part 5: Shredding Shreddies


Enjoy!

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Hello me old muka, That first story never fails to give me a chuckle!! I remember it as if it was yesterday!!
I well and truly miss those Halcon times in the fife arms with the banter and camaraderie,
It's a shame that new challengers will never see the like again,🌈🦋🌞

Thank you, I enjoyed that. At least I think the emotion you stirred was enjoyment or was it fear... just off to check the fibre content of my undies.

Thanks for the reminder Alan.

The shredding shreddies on the day after being immersed at Invermallie on Stormy Sunday. :astonished:

Then of course Mr. Knickers was stuck at Oban bothy and had to be "rescued". :wink:

Y'know, at the end of each year's challenge I stagger into the Park amazed that we've survived yet again. We really are pushing our luck you know. :smile:

Obviously NONE of that is true...

Oh hang on...

ALL OF THAT IS TRUE 😱😱😱

So many happy memories. 😂😂😂

The Dave incident bring tears to my eyes, both laughter and pain :upside_down_face:

Thank you for sharing these nuggets of invaluable insight--I am now feeling entirely vindicated for having spent what seemed a fortune at the time on my husbands merino "foundation garments"--after reading, it seems butt a small price to pay knowing the consequences of cotton.