Entry and Experience Forms
These will be made available on the Entry Page from 4 October 2025. To see the information you will be asked for click here. If you are new to the Event you may want to prepare your Experience Form section before you enter.
The Event Details and Terms & Conditions below relate to TGOC26.
The Final details and ICE Forms will be updated in early 2027, but the 2025 forms are visible using the links below to provide first-timers with an idea of what to expect.
Documents will be updated from September.
Event Information
- 2026 Terms and Conditions. Please read these carefully before you commit to entering the Event even if you have participated before.
- 2026 Event Details. Essential reading for anyone participating in the TGO Challenge. Includes guidance on how to plan your route.
- Filling in your Route Sheet. Suggested reading for all Challengers but essential for first time participants.
- Vetter’s role. An explanation of your vetter’s role and it’s limitations.
- 2026 Final Details will be released in Spring 2026. These give essential information for those participating. Please note the Participants List is not available on the online version.
- In Case of Emergency (ICE) Form – completion of this is a requirement for all TGOC26 participants. All data will be treated confidentially and deleted once TGOC26 has finished. Please do not complete the ICE form until the 2026 ICE form has been launched (which will be in March/April 2027)
- TGO Challenge YouTube channel has plenty of advice (with more to come) on planning, preparing and submitting your route.
Route sheets
- The 2026 route sheet will be available very soon. This is an online form that will be used by the Coordinators and Vetters to assess your route. At the end of the process you will receive a Microsoft Word version for use on the Event. There is no autosave function so we advise you save regularly. You can start preparing your route at any time after the 2026 route sheet is made available here but please do not hit the submission button before 1st November!
- Phone in list. Any location listed here is acceptable as a phone in venue. Others may be accepted if there is likely to be a good mobile signal or a landline available.
- Checklist. However many Challenges you have taken part in please use the checklist before submitting your route to the Coordinators.
Guide to Scotland’s Terrain
Colin Crawford’s excellent Notes on Scotland’s Terrain are well worth a read if you are new to Scotland or have only walked a waymarked trail here.
Information for Vetting Team
If you have information from a recent Challenge or other trip that might be useful to the vetting team please click here and complete a feedback form.
Medical Information and Emergency Contacts Form
This must be completed individually by each participant by in March/April 2026. This year the information will be gathered via an online form. Information requested will be:
- mobile phone number and provider
- details of emergency contacts
- details of any GPS tracker/PLP carried and links to maps when possible
- relevant medical history