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Mark is back on his bike exploring the Aberdeen Coastal Trail. He starts in Cove Bay and heads towards the city in this first instalment.

A group of outdoors organisations under the banner of SORA, Scottish Outdoor Recreation Alliance, is calling for the Scottish Government to support the outdoor sector with a manifesto for the outdoors. We chat live to Helen Todd from Ramblers Scotland, one of the groups involved.

And as mystery bird celebrates a year of confounding listeners, we鈥檒l have another avian enigma as well as a very tuneful blackbird from Euan鈥檚 archive.

Pammy Johal has spent 40 years in the outdoor sector founding Backbone, a leading BAME outdoor environmental education organisation, in 1995. Earlier this month she chatted to Euan about the issues around diversity in the outdoors that still exist and how she feels they can be tackled.

Our 麻豆约拍 Radio Scotland colleague Robbie Armstrong goes for a walk around Cathcart Cemetery with author Peter Ross. The cemetery is somewhere Peter spends quite a lot of time and it features in his recent book, A Tomb with A View: The Stories and Glories of Graveyards.

As we prepare for the re-opening of garden centres in Scotland, we chat to Kirsty Wilson. Kirsty is herbaceous supervisor at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and one of the presenters of 麻豆约拍 Scotland鈥檚 Beechgrove Garden. She tells us what kind of things we should be doing at this time of year as well as why gardening is good for the soul.

Over the last couple of weeks broadcaster and blogger Pennie Latin has been sharing her experience of recovering from breast cancer with Out of Doors. This week she tells us about getting back to one of her real passions, cycling.

And explorer Alice Morrison was a recent guest on our Scotland Outdoors podcast. We have an excerpt where she tells Mark about her relationship with camels.