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    The Virtual TGO Challenge

    Jun 19, 2020 4 minutes

    Supported by Ultralight Outdoor Gear

    BY MARCH IT WAS CLEAR – for the first time in its 40 year history, the TGO Challenge would not take place. It seemed inevitable that we would miss out on the great inspiration this collective crossing of Scotland provides. Or would we?

    Challengers feet couldn’t take them across Scotland, but maybe memories and imagination could. And so the idea for the Virtual TGO Challenge was hatched – a nostalgic, imaginative and inventive crossing played out on social media.

    On May 7 we started travelling virtually to the West Coast with some trepidation - would anyone come

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