My Peak Challenge 2017

The Great Glencoe Challenge — These Outlander-Loving Lasses Actually Did It!

Remember a couple months ago when I shared that my new Outlander pals and I were planning on doing the Great Glencoe Challenge? That verra long walk—as in, a 26.2 mile one-day hike through some of Scotland’s most beautiful and challenging countryside—to pass the days of Droughtlander and raise money for a good cause? Spoiler…

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Walking the Way of Outlander: The Great Glencoe Challenge

People have many ways of dealing with Droughtlander. Some obsessively rewatch episodes, others re-read the books for the nth time, others have tiny forays into the world outside Outlander. Some decide to walk. Walk, trudge, march (caper about?) and just generally get moving in a forward direction. It gets the endorphins flowing and relieves some of…

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Outlander on Break – Rounding up the Cast and Crew’s Holiday

Do you remember in elementary school when you returned from a blissful couple of weeks of freedom from homework assignments, annoying teachers and the daily academic routine to find your school chums buzzing loudly in the hallway about what they did over winter break? Commonplace were conversations about new toys received at Christmas or the hours spent…

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How “My Peak Challenge” Became Sam Heughan’s “Field of Dreams”

“People will come, Ray. They’ll come to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they’re doing it…. Because, if you believe the impossible, the incredible can come true.” That quote was from Field of Dreams, but it could have just as easily been talking about…

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