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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this.

I'm Mark Stephen.

Yesterday it snowed all day with us.

Big fat, wet flakes,

there was no winds, it was coming straight down.

It was like living in a Japanese screen print.

And the snow was building up, and I was thinking,

because I knew today I was supposed to be coming to Marlodge Estate,

which is about 70 miles away.

The roads might not have allowed it,

it might have been a bit too dodgy.

But incredibly,

the snow has more or less thawed completely overnight. And I've made it to the estate,

and it's a beautiful location. Slightly grey day, but just one of those quintessentially

Highland views. You know, the river runs through this broad valley.

There are trees all around me, hills all around me,

still patches of snow in the summit.

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