WE NEED YOUR VOTES The European Outdoor Conservation Trust (EOCA) has shortlisted OATS and Mountaineering Scotland's It's Up to Us Campaign as one of just two international conservation projects that could be awarded 60,000 Euros. Following a rigorous selection procedure for this award, EOCA has put their...
In a recent comment piece (13-09-23) in The National newspaper, Kate Forbes MSP highlighted the huge success of The Fairy Pools Car Park and Toilets project, a local community and environmental charity-led partnership between the Minginish Community Hall Association and OATS, which tackled 'overtourism' at...
Shona Irvine, OATS' Activity Projects Manager who runs OATS' annual volunteering programme, took freelance journalist Richard Baynes under her wing on a recent path maintenance volunteer day in the Cairngorms National Park. She was chatting about all things path building, mountain path maintenance and path...
You can listen to our CEO Dougie Baird chat with Dan Aspell, Host of UK Hillwalking's Mountain Air podcast, about the joys and challenges of path building in fragile upland environments, and what it takes to work as a path contractor. Dougie also talks in more...
