Yesterday, TGO Magazine issued A Hiker's Guide to the Coronavirus Outbreak. A very informative piece it is too, with the nugget that "camping – particularly wild camping – is probably the best way to go". But not a single reference to the Challenge itself!

My guess is that the Challenge organisers are holding off a bit to see how things go. After all the situation in May will be very different than now. The general fear would though be that things will be worse. As mentioned above: transport to the Highlands - I'm coming up on the sleeper - might be curtailed or inadvisable; if Challengers introduced the virus to small Highland communities, the Challenge might not be so welcome in future years; and developing symptoms while a couple of days' walk from any settlement would be nightmarish for both the sufferer and those called on to aid them.

At the moment, I'm still coming. Indeed, ten days of food supplies arrived at my door today. But I'm glad it's all well dated.

Also not Peter the vetter btw.

I agree with your concerns Ian!

Down south here I am battling with the bravado of older volunteers who are lying about their age because they want to continue to run support groups with vulnerable people against what I regard as common sense and government advice.

And contrast that with the tweets (twitter) of medics in Italy who are beside themselves as they watch people come to their modern hospital and just wait there to die because there is not enough equipment to help them.

I am hoping we can carry over our TGO ticket until next year!