David J Lintern

Boxing Day ice sounding above Strathspey

Screenshot showing rejected post with convincing text written by AI

This is a heads-up about fake AI accounts which have proliferated across social media.

The screenshot is from a genuine thread asking for advice on a mountain route; there are plenty of useful, real human replies.
The attempted reply (we stopped it) looks very real - but it is from an AI bot.

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The Reapers - Foodways, seeds and their stories

A very short 'film' I made 4 years ago (!) while covering a Gaelic work song during harvest gathering.

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Scotlands not so clean water

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Oxygen Conservation's purchase of BrewDog's Lost Forest at Kinrara - parkswatchscotland BrewDog’s sale of Kinrara, the estate near Aviemore which it purchased for £8,800,000 in December 2020, and the announcement by Oxygen Conservation earlier this week that it had purchased it (they hav...

Superb bit on the Natural Capital racket and the Kinrara sell out

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⛺ We partnered with Trek Scotland & Minreet Kaur for a first-time Munro wild camp in the Cairngorms.
🌄 Minreet's mum Pal is in remission. She's 75 in November - and is nails enough to attempt Bynack More in the dark!
Watch this space for her full story. An inspiration! 👏
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Not 100% sure tbf but because of location I think it’s likely left out as a feed station for birds of prey

Last week, on a 2 day circuit of the feshie drainage

Spreads from the bumper edition of @tgomagazine.bsky.social loaded with poetry, boating, walking and scrambling… and our annual roundup of the best outdoor kit for 2025

The Trauma Economy What It Costs to Be a Public Example of Pain

Something I think about a lot, as a culture worker and an editorial gatekeeper - how to ensure others don’t fall into the same trap doors as I have. Looking forward to this book: open.substack.com/pub/darrenmc...

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March for Palestine, Inverness, 10.5.25.

A walk for all ages and creeds. Many moving speeches, some highlighting the obvious historical links between land politics in Scotland and Palestine.

(Pix grabbed on the 35mm fixie while helping out marshalling)

my first newsletter in about 20 months!

News & Views - 2023-2025

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Beautiful, John - still got it ;)

Your 5 sisters has pride of place on (my side of) the bedroom wall

Bivvy bag scenes from a favourite place

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Food… Politics… Environment… Marmot ontology! New May issue of @tgomagazine.bsky.social focuses on National Parks, including an alt take on the GR54 in the French Haute Alps.

We are what we eat, make sure it’s wholesome: www.google.com/search?q=tgo...

Remembering David 'Heavy' Whalley, a Mountain Rescue Legend RAF and mountain rescue veteran David “Heavy” Whalley - a gentleman of the hills - is remembered by Cameron McNeish.

RAF and mountain rescue veteran David “Heavy” Whalley, who helped save hundreds of lives during his career, has died at the age of 72.

A previous editor of The Great Outdoors magazine, Cameron McNeish, remembers a friend, colleague and a gentleman of the hills.

🌄#TheGreatOutdoors invites young photographers aged 15-25 to submit your favourite landscape photograph to be published in our magazine and win £75!
🥾Pick your best shot of mountains that move you & send it with 100 words describing the moment to tgo.ed@kelsey.co.uk.
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Heavy Whalley – a life of service Heavy Whalley has spent a life in love with the hills and in the service of others, holding key roles in Mountain Search and Rescue over several decades. David Lintern met up for a chat. Please int...

Sad to hear of Heavy's passing this morning. Here's an interview for @walkhighlands.co.uk from 2022. He was lovely company, and hugely empathetic. We made his portrait at Ryvoan bothy, trying to show the light and shadow of a life well lived. www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/heavy-w...

A few images from last week's high pressure bubble, 3 days in the north west, a long way from the road

Suffering fux Batman, the latest innovative partnership where Rewilding Britain throw hard fought grass roots Access Campaigns under the bus is super awesome is it not

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

On top of total capture of COP by the fossil fuel industry, we now have "Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit."

At what point do we acknowledge what is now plainly obvious: that this is not the solution, but a big part of the problem, a coverup for BAU?
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Trailblazer: Remembering Charlie Ramsay (1943-2025) Charlie Ramsay, the inspirational creator of Ramsay’s Round, is remembered by editor David Lintern

Last week, we said goodbye to one of Scotland's finest
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The Scottish Wildlife Trust's purchase of Inverbroom and natural capital - parkswatchscotland The Scottish Wildlife Trust (SWT)’s announcement earlier this week that they had purchased the Inverbroom Estate (see here) should be another nail in the coffin for so-called green finance. Tucked awa...

‘Natural Capital’ is bankrupt…https://parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/03/08/the-scottish-wildlife-trusts-purchase-of-inverbroom-and-natural-capital/

Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately

Its time for the bi annual revelation on class and the arts: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Here's a reminder to not take yourself too seriously. Our egos get in the way too much of the time. This is obvious stuff, but it makes sense to reflect on it occasionally.

John King on Central Buttress Gully, back o' Braeraich, Friday 7/2/25

John Swinney rules out reintroduction of lynx to Scotland - BBC News The first minister tells farmers that no carnivorous species will be reintroduced under his government.

You say you can’t balance food production and have lynx well @johnswinney.bsky.social you are failing Scotland as every other European country manages it. More about sheep and votes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’ Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? By Pankaj Mishra

Spiky, worthwhile long read on cultural memory, from turn of century colonialism to Musk and AfD

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