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Cairngorm Challenge

Your hike and bike challenge takes place on 11 September 2010 in the beautiful Cairngorms National Park, allowing you to experience one of Scotland's areas of outstanding natural beauty, while raising vital funds for Barnardo's. This is a team event, allowing you to work together to achieve your own personal goals, while spurring on your team mates.

The routes

You can choose your route from three options - Gold, Silver, or Bronze. Each route is designed to be physically challenging for different levels of fitness, and can be completed either as a whole with each participant completing both the hike and bike element, or as a relay with the team splitting up the hike and bike between them.

Specific information about each challenge, as well as maps showing the different routes, can be found on the Gold, Silver and Bronze pages. You can also find more information about the event by looking at our Frequently Asked Questions.

The price

To take part in the 2010 Cairngorm Challenge, you will be asked to pay a registration fee of £100 (or if you sign up before 30 April, you can benefit from the reduced rate of £75, along with several other benefits as shown below in our Early Bird Discount information). You will also be asked to commit to raising £400 in sponsorship - this amount is per person, so a team of four, for example, would need to work together to raise £1,600, adding a fundraising element to the challenge.

Early bird discount

We want you to register early - it gives you longer to organise your team, to complete your training, and to reach your fundrasing target. Those people who register for the Cairngorm Challenge before 30 April 2010, will receive the following benefits:

• Automatic 25% discount on the registration fee - £75 per person for everyone who signs up by the deadline
• Invitation to a Tiso club night at a shop near you, with all stock discounted between 10 and 25%.
• Sponsored by Anatom, all early bird registrations receive a pair of Teko Summit Series high performance marino wool socks
• Automatic entry into a prize draw to win either two free or four half price places on a two day Mountain Bike Skills course worth £190pp

Please have a look at the terms and conditions (PDF) or our early bird discount, which include details of how and when incentives can be claimed.