Snowy Scottish Holiday - a digest

Always liked the word bothy - my uncle had an abandoned one up one down amongst his farm buildings that was referred to as the bothy - I always thought it was where they put casul labour - like this bit from wikipedia
- Most bothies have a fireplace, and are near a natural source of water. A spade is provided to bury excrement.

also -

The location of bothies is not publicised widely, and the MBA does not maintain a list – prior knowledge and word of mouth are often the only way of finding a bothy.

Yeah, we were pretty lucky with 'Bob Scott's Bothy' where we stayed - newly rebuilt after a fire last year, so very warm, with a lovely stove and seperate toilet.

We didn't come across any other walkers (it's about 4 miles from the nearest road) staying there, but the guest book showed there had been quite a lot of people staying in it over the last few weeks.

There's a pretty good network of them up in Scotland. Unfortunately like lots of things they do tend to get abused somewhat.

Love the punk snowman, such an expressive face...he looks naughty.

i hope u took all yer rubbish home wuth you or burnt it!
look fwd to seeing pic of snowman infront of bothy!
the feshie door saga.

definitely took rubbish home - in fact, we had to clean up from the people who had been there before, but we left it spik and span...

the pinkneys bothy on the lyke wake walk,rough idea of location anyone?

did you find out where pinkneys bothy is.

Location Wheeldale Moore
OSEM OL27 97-77