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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thanks very much for downloading this podcast.

Outside the sun is shining and there's about six inches of snow.

It looks like a Christmas card.

It is just pristine.

It's beautiful out there, but very, very cold, probably about minus seven, minus eight.

I'm Mark Stephen.

With me about 40 miles to the north, probably equally frozen.

Mr. Ewan McElwreath.

Yeah, it's a gorgeous day, clear blue sky, snow everywhere.

I was out with the dog this morning.

It's just that childish satisfaction of seeing the different tracks in the snow.

There was a badger, a fox, a squirrel.

I was trying to work out what it was.

I thought it was a rabbit, but it's a squirrel and just so many different tracks out. It's brilliant in the moment.

Yeah. Our guest on the Scotland Outdoors podcast this week is a man who's very, very comfortable

in the Scottish outdoors. David Balhary. David is Chief Executive of the John Muir Trust. It's a

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