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NTS Trailblazers at work on Ben Lomond<\/p><\/div>The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) is reporting a heart-warming tale of the honesty and generosity amongst hill-walkers on Ben Lomond<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ranger Alasdair Eckersall explains: “The hill, which is one of Scotland’s most popular with walkers, was the venue recently for a working holiday for young people aged from 16 to 18 years.<\/p>\n “These dedicated youngsters were carrying out footpath repair work on the hillside during their \u2018holiday\u2019, and had a small tub for donations onsite while they worked.<\/p>\n \u201cThe wet weather closed in and the team had to abandon work for the day – in the rush forgot to stow away the donation box and the sign explaining how donations would be used.<\/p>\n \u201cWe all headed back up to the site a few days later and got a great surprise to find that not only was the tub still there, but it had about \u00a340 in change sitting in it. For two whole days, with no-one to keep an eye on it, our honest walkers had added to the pot quite considerably!\u201d<\/p>\n The NTS cares for around 400 miles of footpaths on Scotland\u2019s mountains and carries out a programme of regular repair and maintenance. For details of the NTS Sole Trading appeal see the website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) is reporting a heart-warming tale of the honesty and generosity amongst hill-walkers on Ben Lomond. Ranger Alasdair Eckersall explains: “The hill, which is one of Scotland’s most popular with walkers, was the venue recently for a working holiday for young people aged from 16 to 18 years. “These dedicated youngsters were carrying out footpath repair work on the hillside during their \u2018holiday\u2019, and had a small tub for donations onsite while they worked. \u201cThe wet weather closed in and the team had to abandon work for the day – in the rush forgot to…<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-access-issues","category-conservation","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23208,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions\/23208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}