Despite the fact that its a beautiful sunny day here in beautiful and sunny Crook, I’ve been spending my time doing some more TGO Challenge planning.
I’ve submitted my route to Roger Smith, who says he will try to give it to a sympathetic and lucid vetter (that cuts a few of them out…)
In the meantime, I’ve been planning my food plan, which is something I always do before a trip like this – i.e. what meals I’ll need to carry on each stage and where I’ll get them from.
It looks very much like http://www.outdoorsgrub.com/ will be getting an order from me shortly – I need to start off with 3 days food, and I need to send two days food to Dalwhinnie – then there’s my April practise trip – all-in-all, around 9 days food.
I hope the table makes some sense – I copied from Excel. I know what it means anyway….
| home | train | mallaig | ||||||
| Meals | Breakfast | Trail | Dinners | |||||
| Thursday | 13/05/2010 | travel to mallaig | take from home | 3 | 3 | 3 | book bed in Mallaig 13/5/2010 | |
| Friday | 14/05/2010 | mallaig | lochan a mhaim | mallaig | 1 | 1 | ||
| Saturday | 15/05/2010 | lochan a mhaim | lochan a mhaim | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Sunday | 16/05/2010 | lochan a mhaim | loch arkaig | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Monday | 17/05/2010 | loch arkaig | lairig leacach | 1 | spean bridge | 1 | shop in spean bridge | |
| buy in spean bridge | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Tuesday | 18/05/2010 | lairig leacach | ben alder cottage | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Wednesday | 19/05/2010 | ben alder cottage | dalwhinnie | 1 | 1 | dalwhinnie | ||
| parcel to dalwhinnie | 2 | 3 | 2 | book hotel dalwhinnie 19/5/2010 | ||||
| Thursday | 20/05/2010 | dalwhinnie | upper feshie | dalwhinnie | 1 | 1 | ||
| Friday | 21/05/2010 | upper feshie | bynack lodge | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Saturday | 22/05/2010 | bynack lodge | braemar | 1 | 1 | braemar | ||
| buy in braemar | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Sunday | 23/05/2010 | braemar | Callater Lodge | braemar | 1 | callater | ||
| Monday | 24/05/2010 | Callater Lodge | burntshields | callater | 1 | 1 | ||
| Tuesday | 25/05/2010 | burntshields | kirriemuir | 1 | 1 | kirriemuir | book b&b Kirriemuir 25/5/2010 | |
| buy in kirriemuir | 0 | 1 | 0 | book b&b Lethem 26/5/2010 | ||||
| Wednesday | 26/05/2010 | kirriemuir | lethem | kirriemuir | forfar | lethem | ||
| Thursday | 27/05/2010 | lethem | scurdie ness | lethem | 1 | montrose | ||
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3 comments:
All planned and done before Xmas. You are far to organised Mike :)
Lord Elpus & I run a very similar spreadsheet, Captain.
However, this year he has been incredibly lax and there is no evidence of the sheet thus far. I shall away, to give him a crafty kick in the shins.
Or there again, I can resurrect last years sheet and start the edit...
Nice route, by the way.
Nowt else to do, Martin - and , ashley, Alan, I've just updated/edited the 2009 file and given it a new name...
The thing to avoid, though, is running out of scotch. A trip to the dalwhinnie distillery is likely...
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