10 Tips for your first bothy trip
Want to spend a night in your first bothy but not sure how? Here are my top tips for your first bothy. A
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12 Types of People You’ll Meet in Bothies
This post first appeared in UkHillwalking.com Bothies would be great if not for the other people you have to share them with. The allure of whisky,
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An Actor’s life
I don’t do it for the glamour, really I don’t. I get no thrill from signing autographs and I’m not the sort of
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The night the Bothy burned
As soon as I said it, I felt the atmosphere change. It had been warm and cosy in the little Bothy, and the
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A Ridge Too Far
It went dark a long, long time ago and we are still walking. My boots are full of water, the result of sinking
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Requiem in Sutherland
Across the rolling moorland, close to horizon, runs a thin man made line. On this narrow strip of tarmac, sits my car, a
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Can you outrun a wildfire?
I am following a small path, and reach a point where the glen steepens and narrows. Soon the glen is reduced to steep
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The Light’s Fantastic
‘Where the hell is it?’ I probe the darkness with the fading beam of my head torch searching for the bothy. In the dwindling
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Fire and Men
It’s dark and raining heavily now. The bothy fire smokes for a few minutes, coughs, splutters and then dies. Charlie, my walking companion
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The Gravity Trap
Normally, when I’m out in the hills, I don’t worry too much about what the ground beneath my feet feels like. The earth
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