Snow, Camping in Winter and a New Air Ambulance
Scotland Outdoors
BBC
4.7 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Some people have found themselves unable to get out and about due to heavy snowfall this week. Rachel meets Cameron Black based in Inverurie in Aberdeenshire who has been voluntarily clearing streets with his own plough.
Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance has unveiled the most advanced helicopter air ambulance of its type in the UK, which operates from a base in Aberdeen. The new helicopter offers greater range and night vision technology. Mark heads to Dyce to chat to the crew.
Community Off-Road Transport Action Group is a group of volunteers in 4x4s who have been helping to deliver medication and get NHS staff to work in the snowy conditions. Rachel joins volunteer Calum Auld to learn how the group have been helping those most in need in the Northeast of Scotland.
Birds don’t have access to the same quantities of food and water in the wintery weather. Mark and Rachel are joined by Richard Humpidge, Site Manager at RSPB Loch of Strathbeg nature reserve in Aberdeenshire, to discuss what we can do to help garden birds at this time of year.
Rachel is in Govanhill in Glasgow to discover how new project Creative Canopies is aiming to create a dispersed orchard. Rachel meets Simone Stewart from Govanhill Baths Community Trust who explains how the project contributes to tree equity.
In this week’s podcast excerpt, Mark sketches old trees in Haddo Country Park, Aberdeenshire with artist Tansy Lee Moir.
Fiona MacBaine from Inverness is known online as Fiona In The Wild where she documents her solo wild camping adventures. Phil Sime and Morven Livingstone wrap up to track Fiona down on the banks of Loch Ness.
Mark takes a wander through his local area to contemplate the wintery scene and the potential impacts on people and wildlife. 4Status:
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. |
| 0:12.7 | But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes, |
| 0:18.2 | The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials |
| 0:22.2 | from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle and Rommashranganathan. |
| 0:26.0 | However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncoaked. |
| 0:30.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
| 0:45.4 | Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this. |
| 0:48.1 | As you probably know, we do a couple of Scotland outdoors podcasts every week, |
| 0:51.8 | one of which is beautifully handcrafted |
| 0:54.6 | from the live programme we do |
| 0:56.0 | for BBC Radio Scotland, |
| 0:57.4 | which is called Out of Doors. |
| 0:59.0 | And this week it's all about snow, |
| 1:01.3 | snow and, well, more snow. |
| 1:04.1 | Out of Doors with Mark Stephen |
| 1:06.1 | and Rachel Stewart |
| 1:07.5 | on BBC Radio Scotland. |
| 1:17.9 | It goes without saying that we've had snow recently. |
| 1:22.9 | That in itself has a sentence wholly fails to explain the circumstances. |
| 1:27.0 | The vast majority of people I know have gone nowhere for the last week. |
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