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Hello and thanks for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast. I'm Helen Needham.

This edition is dedicated to a remarkable musical journey undertaken by composer Matilda

Brown. As well as writing music, Matilda is a long-distance walker. She loves camping in the

wilds and staying in bothies. Her latest adventure, alongside autumn, is her most ambitious.

She started a couple of months ago in Annan in the south-west of Scotland, and by the time

this podcast is published, she'll have made it to Derness in the North West, all on foot with everything she needs on her back.

Plus she's been performing her music in Bothys along the way.

I met up with her in the Atterdale Forest, no trees there, not too far from Loch Karan, and we went for a gorgeous walk in the glooming, surrounded by mountains.

So we've got the Anandale Way following the River Anand.

And I took a westerly left from Beetuk, and I met the Southern Uplom way through Ayrsague forest and I'm going up into my area

over the radar and down into Leadhills and that's my second event was there and then from

lead hills one lockhead corford john road and the

connell heritage trail to murkirk and that was a bit of a revelation for you then wasn't it i i really

enjoyed finding out that there was a path all across there and it's quite boggy and yeah, it's more land.

It's very beautiful.

It's got its own charm.

Because you're not actually following any particular trail.

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