Bothys

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By coincidence, I ordered "Mountain Days and Bothy Nights" y/day, and
I'm hoping it'll arrive later on this week :-))

You'll enjoy it immensely - let the forum know what you think of it!

Jim Ford

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I've been reading around, but can't quite manage to get an impression
of what it's generally like to stay in Scottish bothies. Naturally it
all depends on who happens to be there, on any given night, but do
they tend, on average, to be fairly peaceful, or are they often filled
with drunken, over-excited youths arriving at midnight and noisily
cooking breakfast at 2am? Descriptions seem to vary a lot!

Many thanks for any help.

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I remember once arriving in a blizzard at Garbh Coire Bothy just off Lairig
Ghru. It's only about garden shed size and I found I couldn't get the door
open because of drifting snow. I had to virtually kick the door down to get
it open. Unbeknown to me there was already two guys in there who must have
thought the mad axeman had indeed arrived.
They do vary an awful lot though but do remember not to be completely
dependant on them. They have been known to be locked or disappear
completely.

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I remember once arriving in a blizzard at Garbh Coire Bothy just off Lairig
Ghru. It's only about garden shed size and I found I couldn't get the door
open because of drifting snow. I had to virtually kick the door down to get
it open. Unbeknown to me there was already two guys in there who must have
thought the mad axeman had indeed arrived.

Lol! How absolutely terrified they must have been!

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They do vary an awful lot though but do remember not to be completely
dependant on them. They have been known to be locked or disappear
completely.

I'll be careful, thanks, and will always have the tent to fall back
upon if the bothy looks grotty, or is inhabited by ghouls, scarey
people or nematodes!

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Corrour - best avoided. It's dirty and often crowded. Fireplace, but

little

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local wood. Polluted environs.

Agreed, it stinks, there's rats about. When I paassed there a few years ago
there was human waste not far away! Inside stunk. Didn't trust the water
locally.

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Shelter Stone - (A howff, not a bothy). Wonderful location, but filthy
environs. Every time I've looked under it, I've shuddered at the litter

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hurried on my way.

Very scarey, I'd feel that the stone would topple onto me. Imagine a pot
holer's holiday. very narrow entrance and a very dark interior. Fab
location, though.

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Bynack Stable - Nasty, just a rough corrugated shelter with no door,

broken

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windows and a dirt floor.

Wouldn't even leave a horse to stay in there. Windows was smashed and it
has little real comfort even on a cold autumn or spring night. Use a tent,
it's much much better.

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Ryvoan - When I looked in a year or so ago it had been renvovated and was
quite tidy. Because of its easy accessibility I don't expect it will

remain

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unvandalised for long. It's in a nice location, but not worth bothering

with

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as the Glen More campsite and Hostel is only about half an hour away. Good
fireplace.

Not far from Bynack Stable, nice and comfy as of Summer 2004. But it's on a
major route and god knows who enters at night. I'd only stay with at least
3 other men for safety!

Other none Bothy's I seem to remember....

Ben Nevis huts (all of them) Yuk! Only in severe emergencies only.

Ben MacDui hut - just walls to keep out the biting wind - possble bivi only.

Jhimmy.

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* of violets, as bob watkinson <[email hidden]> descended
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I remember once arriving in a blizzard at Garbh Coire Bothy just off Lairig
Ghru. It's only about garden shed size and I found I couldn't get the door

I've not been in that one, but I've looked at it through binos from
Brairiach. It looked to me a bit like the Fords of Avon one - a corrugated
iron tunnel heaped with rocks.

Jim Ford

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* The air of uk.rec.walking was filled with the delicate perfume
* of violets, as bob watkinson <[email hidden]> descended
* on a shaft of golden sunlight, and announced:

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I remember once arriving in a blizzard at Garbh Coire Bothy just off
Lairig
Ghru. It's only about garden shed size and I found I couldn't get the
door

I've not been in that one, but I've looked at it through binos from
Brairiach. It looked to me a bit like the Fords of Avon one - a corrugated
iron tunnel heaped with rocks.

Jim Ford

Yep. My distant memory tells me that's the one.

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Seriously, they are usually empty these days - fashions have changed.
What ever you do, hang your food high

To keep it out of reach of the bears?

A friend and I stayed in a bothy just last week and we hung our food bags
from nails on the wall but, the next morning, we found a mouse in one of the
bags nibbling our noodles so after that we hung our foodbags from nails in
the rafters.

you'd have been better hanging the mouse from the rafters with the nail.

<runs for cover from the howls of protest>

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Ben MacDui hut - just walls to keep out the biting wind - possble bivi only.

Now there is *no way* in the world I'm sleeping in any Ben MacDhui
hut! :-) I imagine that's where the Grey Man hangs out when he gets
bored with stamping up and down the slopes to the Lairig Ghru!

Best wishes,
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you'd have been better hanging the mouse from the rafters with the nail.

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<runs for cover from the howls of protest>

<fx: squeal!!!> Major tut!

<PW makes note for extra large snowball....>

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Ben MacDui hut - just walls to keep out the biting wind - possble bivi only.

This is the one about 100 meters to the East of the summit cairn. It's
refered to as 'The Surveyers Hut' because I believe it was used by the
surveyer who surveyed the region in Victorian times, and determined that Mac
Dui was not the highest hill, as was previously thought, but Nevis was.
Apparently there was a abortive local movement to get a 200ft cairn built to
reclaim the record! As you say, there are just a few walls, but as I
recollect the one that originally had the fireplace, has a massive lintel in
it. I bivied within the walls some years ago in June. It was a warm, flat
calm night, but although I'm _not_ superstitious, I didn't sleep much and
felt 'edgy' all night.

Jim Ford

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Shelter Stone - (A howff, not a bothy). Wonderful location, but filthy
environs. Every time I've looked under it, I've shuddered at the litter

and

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hurried on my way.

This was a tremendous place back in the 80's stayed there on 3 seperate
occasions, all in full winter conditions, shame to here of its recent
condition.

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On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:25:26 -0000, Darren G <[email hidden]> wrote:

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you'd have been better hanging the mouse from the rafters with the nail.

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<runs for cover from the howls of protest>

<fx: squeal!!!> Major tut!

wondered if you'd bite :-) Had a pet mouse as a kid so wouldn't see one
harmed. Rates on the other hand ...

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<PW makes note for extra large snowball....>

Excellent. Love a good snowball fight. And we all know girls can't
throw to save their lives.

<lights touchpaper and retires to a safe distance - about 2 foot>
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<PW makes note for extra large snowball....>

Excellent. Love a good snowball fight. And we all know girls can't
throw to save their lives.

<lights touchpaper and retires to a safe distance - about 2 foot>

You've got it coming to you, you have!

J

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<PW makes note for extra large snowball....>

Excellent. Love a good snowball fight. And we all know girls can't
throw to save their lives.

<lights touchpaper and retires to a safe distance - about 2 foot>

You've got it coming to you, you have!

Hee hee... we'll have to make a cunning plan, Judith....

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On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 23:38:38 -0000, Darren G <[email hidden]> wrote:

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wondered if you'd bite :-)

<fx: snap, snap!>

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Had a pet mouse as a kid so wouldn't see one
harmed.

Cute things :-)

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Rates on the other hand ...

Rates, eh? As in Council Tax??

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<PW makes note for extra large snowball....>

Excellent. Love a good snowball fight. And we all know girls can't
throw to save their lives.

<lights touchpaper and retires to a safe distance - about 2 foot>

Oooh.... you'd better watch out! Judith and I will hatch a cunning
plan.... :-)

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Darren G said:

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On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:25:26 -0000, Darren G <[email hidden]> wrote:

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you'd have been better hanging the mouse from the rafters with the nail.

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<runs for cover from the howls of protest>

<fx: squeal!!!> Major tut!

wondered if you'd bite :-) Had a pet mouse as a kid so wouldn't see one
harmed. Rates on the other hand ...

Terrible things almost as bad as council tax. Soz :-)

Once spent an amusing half hour watching a mouse try to cross a floor
at A 'Chuil . It would dash a bit, leap a bit, then run back to it's
hole, then start all over again. In the end I moved the parmesan it
was after and blew out the candle. I was woken later that night by a
group of four blokes wandering in at 4 am.
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Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

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On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 23:38:38 -0000, Darren G <[email hidden]> wrote:

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wondered if you'd bite :-)

<fx: snap, snap!>

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Had a pet mouse as a kid so wouldn't see one
harmed.

Cute things :-)

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Rates on the other hand ...

Rates, eh? As in Council Tax??

Can't stand them. And as for the rats ... errr, sorry, councillors ...
who impose them, they are worse still. Even worse than ratus ratus.

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Darren
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On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:10:16 GMT, "Jhimmy" <[email hidden]>
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Ben MacDui hut - just walls to keep out the biting wind - possble bivi only.

Now there is *no way* in the world I'm sleeping in any Ben MacDhui
hut! :-) I imagine that's where the Grey Man hangs out when he gets
bored with stamping up and down the slopes to the Lairig Ghru!

Yes... Pour a dram... Think of the tales...

Richard Webb

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You'd be a braver wee piglet than me if you stayed in one. I am
convinced they are a magnet for axe murderers (and nematodes).

mrs coj was convinced that the shed was also a magnet for axe
murderers before she met any of us. In her honour her first
moot (the second Snowdon night hike) was marked by the hosts
for the weekend leaving an axe rather prominently on the
mantlepiece :-)
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All the best to everyone in 2005
- Fran

Fran said:

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You'd be a braver wee piglet than me if you stayed in one. I am
convinced they are a magnet for axe murderers (and nematodes).

mrs coj was convinced that the shed was also a magnet for axe
murderers before she met any of us. In her honour her first
moot (the second Snowdon night hike) was marked by the hosts
for the weekend leaving an axe rather prominently on the
mantlepiece :-)

:-)

Best wishes,
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