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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thanks very much for downloading this podcast.

I'm Mark Stephen.

Walking is something that a lot of people are able to do.

It's been written about extensively over the centuries,

but when you think about it, it's particularly by men.

You think of Wordsworth, a Coleridge, John Muir, Sir Walter Scott, Rob McFarlane, that kind of thing.

They're all great walkers, but they are all men.

Now, that's not to say that women don't walk or indeed write about walking.

My companion on this podcast is a woman who loves to walk.

Ellen Needham.

I do indeed, and I was very excited to learn about our guest on today's podcast

because I've spent many years taking deep inspiration from wandering all over the place,

really up hills and in lockdown, just wandering

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