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Scotland Outdoors

Walking the Lairig Ghru with Adam Watson and Tom Weir

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We dig into the archives and share a programme recorded in 1986.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:09.3

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0:17.6

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0:22.0

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0:26.3

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0:27.4

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0:29.9

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0:32.8

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:36.2

The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:44.3

Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this. I'm Mark Stephen.

0:51.1

It's probably over 25 years ago when I first drove up the drive of a small cottage in D-side to meet an extraordinary man.

0:59.5

Dr. Adam Watson was a scientist, a naturalist, a writer, an observer, a truly keen intelligence.

1:07.2

There probably wasn't a square metre of the cairngorns that he didn't know intimately.

1:11.6

He wasn't a big man and he had this sort of Old Testament beard.

1:16.6

He was like a sort of short version of John Muir to a certain extent and the comparisons didn't end there.

1:22.6

We sat in his study and there was barely room to sit down because the place was covered in notepads and jottings

1:29.0

and reference books and photographs. He just wanted to know about everything and he put in a lot of work

1:36.8

to do it. Now in this edition of Scotland Outdoors we have dug deep into the Radio Scotland archive

1:43.8

to bring you a programme recorded in 1986 called In the Country, which features Adam and the legendary Tom Weir, walking the Lannock grew from Avie Moore over to D-Side.

1:54.0

But before we get to that, let's hear from Ian Cameron, the Snow Patch Hunter, who considers himself blessed to have had Adam Watson as his mentor.

2:03.6

Adam Watson was one of the most revered, respected ecologists in Scotland.

2:10.6

He passed away a few years ago now, but his legacy will remain for generations generations I think it was 2005 I first contacted him

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