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Ready for the Off!
Ready for the Off! Kate Foley, Liz and Tom Forest, Koos Schekkevis.

Peewiglet and Mr Grumpy
Shirley Worrall and Mr Grumpy (aka Pete Goddard)

Daredevil Shirl
Shirley the daredevil crosses a wire bridge

Phil Turner and Peter Molenaar (seen through a raindrop)
Phil Turner and Peter Molenaar (seen through a raindrop)

??? with Jonathan Smith on right
Bob Tucker on the left and Jonathan Smith on right: crossing Loch Ness

Assault on the Monaliadth
Assault on the Monaliadth: left to right: Ali Ashton, Sue Oxley, Colin Ibbotson, Phil Turner, Shirley Worrall and Kate Foley

The Kitchen Table at Tarfside
Tarfside: around the kitchen table

Russ Manion and Humphrey Weightman
Russ Manion and Humphrey Weightman sharing a crafty fag to celebrate the finish!

Bernie and Paulie Marshall
Bernie “Super Legend” Marshall and Pauline Marshall

Joke and Jeff Cracknell
Joke and Jeff Cracknell: it’s not that bad Jeff!

Stan, or Bill?
Stan or Bill from Callater Lodge — I can never remember which is which

Cameron MacNeish and Russ Manion
Cameron MacNeish and Russ Manion

Ursula Woodhouse and Russ Manion
Ursula Woodhouse and that man Manion again

John "The Squire" Dodwell and Sall Dodwell
John “Squire” Dodwell and the long suffering Sally Dodwell

Cameron Macneish and Peter Goodwin
Cameron MacNeish and Peter Goodwin

Barbara Johnson and Cameron MacNeish
Barbara Johnson and Cameron MacNeish

Nick Roggen
Nick Roggen

Jon Hancock, Judith Barnes and ???
Jon Hancock, Judith Barnes and ???

Lio Lil
Lilo Lil (don’t ask) — I think this one is just about OK before the watershed!

Leaving Montrose
The Challenge goes home

Chris Townsend
Chris Townsend

You can tell there’s something special about this event. Notice how happy everyone is!

posted by andy on 06.11.09 @ 8:42 am | 9 Comments

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Oooh, great pics! I love that one of Chris at the end :)

(Have just started my write-up.)

By Peewiglet on 06.11.09 10:07 am

I’m so photogenic.

By PhilT on 06.11.09 10:21 am

Andy,
Thanks for the pics, it is great to get a fuller feeling of what the event is about. Really dig the shot of Shirley on the wire bridge – I’ve got the ‘Mission Impossible’ tune going around in my head, now!

By Baz on 06.11.09 12:13 pm

“Really dig the shot of Shirley on the wire bridge – I’ve got the ‘Mission Impossible’ tune going around in my head, now!”

Heh! It felt a bit like Mission Impossible at the time!

By Peewiglet on 06.12.09 3:32 am

??? is Bob Tucker, about 8 or 9 Challenges.

By Mr. Grumpy on 06.16.09 4:56 pm

Thanks Grumps ..

.. That’s another whiskey I owe you.

By andy on 06.16.09 5:08 pm

The ??? chap is Bob Tucker. The one marked as Bob Tucker isnt Bob Tucker, its somebody else.

By Mike Knipe on 07.17.09 7:08 pm

PS As Grumpy nearly says, Bob is doing his tenth crossing next year.

By Mike Knipe on 07.17.09 7:10 pm

Thanks Mike. Toomany people and too many names!

By andy on 07.19.09 9:58 am

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