 TGO Challengers are welcomed everywhere as they hike across Scotland. | |  Not sure what's happening in this shot, taken at the Fife Arms in Braemar... | |  This picture's the wrong way up... |
 Challenge Tent City... the umpteenth, at Callater Lodge. | |  That's Bill, by the way, leading Ian Cotterill, Bill Howden, Phil Lambert and Pete Shepherd in a rousing rendition of I Belong to Glasgow or something similarly appropriate to the Challenge! | |  Would all late comers please report to the sofa... |
 Farewell to Callater... | |  Steph Hughes on The Stuic, looking towards bright Lochnagar | |  Steph Hughes strides across the rocky Lochnagar landscape. |
 Steph in the delightful small glen of the Glas Allt, that leads to Glas Allt Shiel and its bothy. | |  Time to dry the footbeds! | |  And so into Glen Lee, where, by peculiar chance, we had our first whiff of the ocean, having glimpsed it from the summit of Lochnagar. |
 There's too much to see in Glen Esk... | |  Yet another tent city... | |  ... but it might have something to do with the fact that the small bar in the Masons' opened up in the evening, providing an opportunity for more lubrication and song. |
 Peewit chick just off the nest, in Glen Esk. | |  Oh blimey – another tent city, this time at North Water Bridge's Dovecot campsite. | |  And here we are in the ocean at St Cyrus nature reserve. |
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