The main way into the 70ft deep gorge is down a set of badly collapsed sandstone steps built in Victorian times
A MOUNTAIN rescue boss has urged caution after a dangerous gorge in a patch of scruffy woodland, made famous as a film set, was named as Scotland’s best “walking trail”.
It first attracted attention ten years ago when it featured in the first series of TV’s time-travel Scots epic tale Outlander, which has won a global audience, and it has been used for several other films and shows. The owner, farmer David Young, is trying to sell the site to be turned into a tourist attraction. He has complained of abuse and threatening behaviour from visitors, as well as severe littering and damage to the woodland in which the gorge sits.
The survey appears to have been a desk-top, internet-based exercise. Publicists say the survey used data from a website, AllTrails, and from respected walking campaigners the Ramblers. The distance and time for the walk, and the number of Instagram hashtags and Google searches, were also factored in to arrive at the final results.
But David Dodson of the Lomond Mountain Rescue Team, which is regularly called to incidents in the gorge, said of the listing: “It’s nonsense.” “It is understandable why so many wish to visit this place of outstanding beauty, but those who do so really need to be mindful of the dangers therein … unless care is taken it also presents a hazard risk to life and limb.”
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