60-60-60 in the Southern Pentlands

Ramblings

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Clare Balding is celebrating a listener’s birthday today. Not something we’ve done before, but when we heard that Lynda Pettit was marking her 60th birthday by walking 60 different routes with 60 different people, and that the idea was partly inspired by Ramblings, well we just had to join in, especially as it’s Clare’s 25th year on Ramblings (double celebrations!). Lynda and several friends took Clare for a hike on the Stoney Path walk in the Pentland Hills near West Linton, about 20 miles south of Edinburgh.

They met outside The Gordon Arms Hotel on the A702 and went up into the southern Pentlands. It’s a route that takes in the Old Roman road that heads up to Edinburgh; Stoney Path, also known as Thieves Road, an ancient droving track used by cattle reivers herding stolen livestock through the hills; and Baddinsgill Reservoir. They also ascended Mount Maw, catching sight of a beautiful cloud inversion on the way. Views from the top stretched around 80 miles to a snow-capped Ben Lomond, Scotland's most southerly Munro.

Presenter: Clare Balding Producer: Karen Gregor

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1:00.2	A little chilly but really not too bad, no frost on the ground and I'm just south of Edinburgh
1:05.4	in the Pentland Hills walking up to meet a trio of women led by Linda Pettit who is celebrating her 60th year
1:15.1	by going on walks with 60 different people and her friends Val and Charlotte are the two chosen
1:22.5	companions today. Hello morning. Good morning. Morning. So Linda, this challenge of yours, I love the sound of it.
1:29.4	Yeah, 60 walks with 60 friends in my 60th year, so that's what I'm doing.
1:34.4	How far through are you?
1:35.4	Well, only at 34.
1:37.5	Claire, you're number 34.
1:38.9	You're my new friend.
1:40.3	Oh, I'm the one.
1:41.2	Am I?
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