Two otherwise sane men (myself and John Drinkwater) decided to walk from Lands End to John O’Groats (LEJOG) by the scenic route to celebrate our 60 birthdays. We set off on the morning of April 5th 2009, which was my birthday, and arrived 51 days later at John O’Groats, averaging 20 miles a day: a total of 1,o25 miles.
We raised money for Precious Lives, a Cornish charity to build a hospice for sick children in the county, by the normal means (friends, just giving etc), but in addition, I carried some unusual kit to broaden the scope. This included a guitar strapped to my pack on which I played music at stops on the way, a notepad computer to write a daily blog (see http://lemusicaljog.blogspot.co.uk/2009_03_01_archive.html) and an iphone to tweet along the way.
As a result, we raised over £12,500 from our generous friends and blog readers around the World, and from John’s ex-employer, Xerox.
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- Ardleish Bothy, Loch Lomond
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- Forest View, south of Loch Lomond
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- View north from Rowardennan
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- The River Clyde at Crawford, Lanarkshire
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- Clyde Valley at Abington, Lanarkshire
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- Clyde Walkway near Lanark
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- New Lanark Mill
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- Mill race at New Lanark Mill
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- The Clyde at New Lanark
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- Clyde Falls at New Lanark Mill
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- The Highlands beckoning over East Glasgow
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- Gallowgate, Glasgow
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- Trongate, Glasgow
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- Kelvin Grove and Glasgow University
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- Royal Terrace, Kelvingrove, Glasgow
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- Glasgow University buildings
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- Start of the West Highland Way, Milngavie
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- The Iron Chef multipurpose store, Milngavie
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- Drumgoyne, Campsie Fells
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- View towards Ben Lomond from the south
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- West Highland Way users, with Drumgoyne
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- View towards Ben Lomond from near Killearn
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- West end of The Campsie Fells
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- Lone rambler with Ben Lomond
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- Glengoyne Distillery
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- Climbing Conich Hill
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- Conich Hill and Loch Lomond
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- Loch Lomond from Conich Hill
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- Loch Lomond from the south
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- Loch Lomond stream 1
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- Loch Lomond stream 2
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- Rowardennan evening 1
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- Rowardennan evening 2
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- Scotts Pine on Loch Lomond
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- Loch Lomond morning
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- Loch Lomond north
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- Loch Lomond, north 3
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- View north from Loch Lomond shore
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- Looking south from Loch Lomond beach
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- From the north end of Loch Lomond
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- Ardleish Bothy and tip of Loch Lomond
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- Ardleish Bothy
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- View south from northern bank of Loch Lomond
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- Loch Lomond from the north
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