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Tom Weir | The Walker’s Wonderland
Tom Weir concludes his two-part portrait of Loch Lomond with visits to lesser-known features that can be reached on foot – and a dramatic tale of canoeing on its changeable […]
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Andrew Cotter in Twenty Questions
We set Andrew Cotter a quick-fire round of twenty questions when we caught up BBC Commentary team at The Open… Where did you get the golfing bug? The whole […]
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Tom Weir | My Loch Lomond
Few men can know Loch Lomond as intimately as Tom Weir who lived by its shores for 17 years. In his columns for our July and August, 1976 issues he […]
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Tom Watson | Farewell To A Golfing Great
As golfing champions go, few can beat Tom Watson. The old magic might not all be there and the succinct touch that labelled him one of the best links golfers […]
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Tom Weir | Back To The Hostels
In June, 1976, Tom Weir, a lover of bothys and wild camping, had a change of heart about Youth Hostels. After their warm welcome on a few wild and dreich […]
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Mission To… Langholm?
Neil Armstrong delivered one of the most famous sentences in history 47 years ago… but it seems that the first man on the Moon was almost lost for words the […]
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Tom Weir | A Spring Morning, Tales of the Drovers, and The Carron Valley
In his column for our March, 1976 edition of The Scots Magazine, Tom Weir considers the delights and dangers of the Scottish mountains, and explores he history behind the old drover’s roads […]
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Scottish Wine Wizard of Oz
Australians are serious about their wine. Scots are pretty serious about Australian wine too, but as we’re warming a winter night with a Margaret River Merlot or enjoying a glass […]
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Tom Weir | Stravaiging The Tops
Stravaig is a great Scots word. You can occasionally hear landowners use it negatively to refer to the “stravaigers” who trample through their fields, but for most – and certainly […]
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From Tom’s Archives . . .
Tom Weir was a world-renowned adventurer, climber, broadcaster, and naturalist – and it was our privilege to have his column in the magazine for over 50 years.
