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🗓️ 15 February 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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The skill of stone masonry, ski-ing in the Cairngorm and the beauty and benefits of paths
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0:00.0 | He tells her that she will be sent to France as a secret agent, and if she's caught, she's going to be shot. |
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0:17.6 | What they wanted was someone to get themselves arrested and sent to Auschwitz. |
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0:35.6 | Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast. |
0:38.9 | I'm Mark Stephen. He's Hugh and McElwraith. |
0:40.6 | Yeah, big winds hitting Scotland this week, which is going to affect certainly recreation. |
0:45.4 | But I've been up in the hills where the snow has arrived, big time. |
0:49.4 | At long last. |
0:50.3 | And we're looking at the future of Cairn-Gorn Mountain, a lot of differing opinion, |
0:54.8 | and we'll bring you that a wee bit later in the programme. I was right up in the far north |
0:58.2 | of mainland Scotland earlier this week and I was coming back down towards Helmsdale, clear blue |
1:03.7 | skies, the snows were just absolutely, you know, the hills just covered in snow, just these white |
1:09.3 | blocks against the sky fabulous it sees lovely |
1:12.2 | yeah as always driving up to kairngorn just when you pass this just before you get to the snow |
1:17.5 | gates there's kind of some gentle slopes and it was heaving with kids yeah that's great just sledging |
1:23.6 | everywhere and it was just such a wonderful sight because we haven't had a huge amount of snow in |
1:27.3 | scandin in recent years but the car park was full at the bottom the car park was legend everywhere and it was just such a wonderful sight because we haven't had a huge amount of snow in Scotland |
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