Mark takes a boat trip on Loch Katrine, Euan cycles the Isla Way and the species that used to roam the Scottish countryside

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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A boat trip on Loch Katrine, cycling the Isla Way and the extinct species of Scotland

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0:23.2	Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.
0:26.6	I'm Mark Stephen. He's you and McElwraith and it's been a busy all week.
0:29.7	Yeah, I've been trying to cycle downhill.
0:32.5	It's very difficult.
0:36.3	This is a bit of a shock to the system.
0:38.3	I'd kind of naively thought because the train journey was mainly up
0:44.3	that this leg of it would be mainly down.
0:48.3	But there is a brutal hill.
0:51.3	The sun is splitting the sky. It's about 25, 26 degrees. And as you can tell, I'm seriously pecky.
0:59.2	Can I take it to your downhill wasn't quite as downhill as you thought it was? No, I, you were here later on, I was following the Isle Away, which all sense and map reading suggested it was downhill all the way, and it was anything but.
1:11.2	Moan, moan, moan.
1:13.0	Talking about hilly terrain, the area around about Lochinac's spectacular.
1:17.4	Beautiful hills.
1:19.2	Sometimes it's a bit, or has been in the past, quite difficult to access some of it.
1:23.7	The north side of Loch Ness, obviously, I mean, that's a real tourist hotspot.
1:26.9	Yeah, but the south side is pretty much untouched.
1:30.3	There's a couple of wee villages along there, but it's pretty remote.
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