Trail miles, gear sense, and outdoor memory.
The Outdoors Station is a long-running outdoor podcast built around walking, camping, backpacking, and self-powered travel. Its recent episodes mix Wainwright Coast to Coast trail journals with gear-show interviews, seasonal nature notes, and thoughtful looks at history in the landscape.
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The Outdoors Station is an outdoor podcast shaped by years of walking, camping, backpacking, and self-powered travel. It is practical, but not only practical. Recent episodes carry the sound and texture of being outside: a dog pulling someone into the fresh air, blackthorn blossom beside an urban footpath, rain surrounding a tent floor, and a dawn chorus that sounds different after weeks on the trail. The Wainwright Coast to Coast series gives the show much of its recent character. It follows two people across the country with camping gear, fixed accommodation dates, and the slowly accumulating consequences of overconfidence. The details matter. Rucksack weight crosses a threshold. Wild camping plans meet fenced-off reservoirs and local restrictions. Long days stretch into evening. A booking mix-up sends the story sideways. The show is honest about discomfort without turning hardship into theatre. It notices fatigue, poor sleep, wet ground, and planning mistakes, then sets those against the pleasure of landscape, companionship, and small discoveries. Other episodes widen the frame. A Christmas archive recording becomes a meditation on friendship, memory, and time outdoors away from digital pressure. A Scottish landscape episode looks past romantic scenery toward stories of power, fear, belief, and survival. Gear-show coverage brings the same steady attention to products, asking how repair, warranty support, comfort, and sustainability affect real outdoor decisions. The Outdoors Station suits people who want outdoor media with mud on its boots and patience in its observations. It is not built around quick tips or polished adventure spectacle. Its strength is accumulated trust: trail notes, gear judgement, historical curiosity, and reflective company from people who have spent the miles.
Made for: For walkers, backpackers, campers, long-distance hikers, and self-powered travellers who like detailed field notes as much as destination stories. It also suits outdoor gear buyers who care about repair, warranty support, comfort, and sustainability.
What sets it apart: The show blends on-trail diary, practical gear reporting, landscape history, and personal reflection with unusual continuity. Its outdoor authority comes from accumulated miles, mistakes, archive recordings, and patient attention to small changes in place.
The World's longest running independent producer of broadcast quality podcasts for the adventurer, the long distance hiker, the backpacker, the camper, in fact anyone seeking an independent life in the outdoors as a self powered traveler. Since 2005 we've produced audio and video podcasts for the self powered outdoor enthusiast in the UK and World-Wide. For people who wants to find out more about getting into the outdoors lifestyle and enjoying the simple pleasures in life.Our range of material goes back to 2005 and dips into many aspects. We talk to others and discuss their trips and experiences big and small, we discuss and review gear, we link associated skills and interests all with the…
A Christmas dinner in a tent becomes your gateway to 188 miles of honest trail reckoning.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Thermarest socks, durability, and the case for keeping kit in service longer.
Bob Cartwright's part four of the five-part UK Outdoor Trade Show miniseries keeps its attention on practical gear rather than spectacle. The Thermarest stop centers on Lindsay Morrison and a new development that leans a little more toward comfort, with a shape that could also…
A spring walk shaped by blossom, hedge work, and the costs of getting outdoors.
The episode moves through a spring walk near the host's property, where blackthorn blossom, Pip, and a sting from a thorny branch set the mood.
Outdoor talk from the camp table.
Garage talk for the slow trail crowd.
Host Bob Cartwright presents part four of a miniseries recorded at the UK Outdoor Trade Show, focusing on sustainable gear innovations.
The host of The Outdoors Station returns after a winter hiatus, explaining his absence through domestic projects like hedge-cutting and roof repairs.
A narrator describes an early morning walk through blackthorn blossom, reflecting on how nature's beauty can be deceptive yet transformative.
The Outdoors Station examines Scotland’s witch trials through Clare Mitchell, KC, and Zoe Ventatosi, authors of How to Kill a Witch and campaigners with Witches of Scotland.
The Outdoors Station revisits a December 2011 Christmas outing in the Crick Howell Horseshoe, where Bob and Andy Howe attempt a three-course meal inside a small tent.
The Outdoors Station’s “Wainwright Coast to Coast Part 9” follows the final miles from Intake Farm across Greystones Moor to Robin Hood Bay.
The Outdoors Station’s “Wainwright Coast to Coast Part 8” follows day 12 of a May 2025 crossing, including the final camp at Intake Farm before Robin Hood’s Bay.
This episode continues the Wainwright Coast to Coast walking series, picking up at Lordstone's campsite after a night of heavy rain that flooded the tent.
The Outdoors Station's “Wainwright Coast to Coast Part 3” follows Rose and John across days four and five of their 188-mile walk from St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay.
This episode, part four of a miniseries from the UK Outdoor Trade Show, features an interview with Thermarest's marketing manager discussing new product developments focused on comfort and sustainability to help listeners maintain their outdoor gear longer.
This episode continues a mini-series from an outdoor trade show, discussing PFAS regulations, repair services, and a UK brand's innovative zipless product range, while emphasizing skill and knowledge in outdoor activities.
This episode reviews the National Outdoor Expo at the NEC, discusses the live stream sponsored by Valley and Peak, and includes promo codes.
The host returns after a year-long hiatus to preview the National Outdoor Expo and thank supportive listeners.