The Great Outdoors

Time for a change to the Challenge?

BACK IN MARCH, when we became increasingly aware that the coronavirus pandemic was going to affect the 2020 The Great Outdoors (TGO) Challenge, we started to think how we might run the event in a more pared-down way. Once we regretfully realised that we would have to cancel it altogether we were even more focused on how future Challenges might happen under the restrictions imposed on us all due to the virus.

A backpacking event across the Scottish

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