If you want to see a bean goose in the UK you need to make your way to the Slamanan Plateau – an area of high land between Cumbernauld and Falkirk. After Kat walked past the Special Protection Area for the bean geese in the summer, while on her Green Belt walk, she returned to meet the people monitoring the geese and see these incredibly special birds.

Kat joins two stalwarts of Scotland’s right to roam campaign, Nick Kempe and Bob Reid, on this section of her Green Belts walk where they find their way along the escarpment of the Kilpatrick Hills.

Nearing the end of her Green Belt walk, Kat walks some of the West Highland Way, passing the site of the famous Craigallian Fire and stops in at the Carbeth Huts.

Kat brings journalist Dan Vevers along on her latest Green Belt walk which takes them past a mysterious rock formation with carved faces, a cave behind a waterfall and a the derelict Lennox Castle.

APRS Director Kat Jones is spending some of her weekends and evenings exploring Green Belts with the aim to circumnavigate greater Glasgow and surrounding towns. In this section she walks part of the Antonine Wall from Kilpatrick and finds how much of our own infrastructure and landscape today relates to Roman civil engineering.

APRS Director Kat Jones is spending some of her weekends and evenings exploring Green Belts with the aim to circumnavigate greater Glasgow and surrounding towns to raise money for APRS.

This year’s family Boxing Day walk had to be another section of Kat’s circumnavigation of Glasgow’s green belt. She dragged three generations of her family out to navigate past ruins from a medieval chapel and a castle, to a masterpiece of Brutalist architecture. They encounter railway, dual carriageway and river crossings and a farmer determined that they won’t be allowed across his land.

Planning for her next green belt walk, a treasure hunt for Neolithic rock carvings at Cochno, near Faifley, Kat discovers they are under threat from a large Battery facility.