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They could always charge £10 for parking which would price many folk out of the car park. It seems to be acceptable elsewhere :wink: I'm not convinced the lay by is an issue though. Peanmeanach gets a lot if visitors by sea though I'm not sure what the percentage split is. Not sure which group caus...

In short is the relationship between the SBB and the MBA a symbiotic, or parasitic one? It's not symbiotic for sure, but I think to be fair to the MBA they de-facto endorsed the SBB for a 10% 'donation' of profits through incompetence rather than anything else. Where they have royally screwed-up is...

They could always charge £10 for parking which would price many folk out of the car park. It seems to be acceptable elsewhere :wink: I'm not convinced the lay by is an issue though. Peanmeanach gets a lot if visitors by sea though I'm not sure what the percentage split is. Not sure which group caus...

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The following e-mail (with names/e-mail addresses marked as 'REDACTED') was sent by the owner of Ardnish estate to the Chairman and an Area Organiser of Mountain Bothies Association as formal notice of closure of Peanmeanach bothy later this year. It clearly shows that the Scottish Bothy Bible was a...

The rot started with Sir Hugh Thomas Munro, 4th Baronet. Personally I blame the Ordnance Survey. Having read this thread I can't imagine how, short of paying the owners of this site advertising fees, the Bothy Bible's profile could have been more effectively raised. If it's a free gratis stealth ad...

I was quite pleased to see the closure of the old parking place: deters party goers from using Corryhully. May be one of the reasons that the Estate are now working on improving the bothy, for CWTers and others on long walks for whom parking isnt an issue. Hi Essan, One bothy and one parking place ...

Sunset tripper wrote:Struggled to get parked there last time myself before the gate was there. I blame the Harry Potter books - the work of the devil!

They will close Corryhully next!

Alright Sunset,

You never know Corryhully is listed in the Bothy Bible but not in any of JK Rowling's efforts

Was the Bothy Bible really responsible for the closure or was it just a easy target for the estate to blame as so many factors would have came into play without actually being able to pointpoint a precise culprit. Sites like this don't exactly help when bothies are linked along side Glamping. https...

Long, long ago (Pre Ranting Ronnie) I remember the outcry when Irvine published his list of bothies & howffs. I believe that it got so bad that they had to shut the shelter stone due to overcrowding! Strangely enough the world survived this earth shattering publication by Irvine and it's just p...

I thought my previous comment was clear in saying the acceptance of monies from the book profits was worthy of debate from an ethical perspective so not sure how you concluded that I believe the arrangement was ethical? Also the Oxfam example seems a bit off to be honest, I assume MBA is Oxfam and ...

Bothies are there to be used by all not for a select clique. This is a smokescreen from the original post. That book, and subsequently, the author’s refusal to comply with the reasonable requests from both the MBA and Dunlossit Estate have resulted in the indefinite closure of An Cladach for 6 mont...

So to summarise 10 pages... A (yip, just the one) bothy is to close in the non-peak seasons (unless you've got loads of tweed and a gun then it's yee-haa time) almost a year from now due to unsubstantiated claims from an estate representative about a book that it has been agreed was going to be rel...

You ask what I (and many other MBA members) hope to 'pragmatically achieve'. Well that is simple: 1. The MBA should sever all ties with Allan and his book and do this publicly. This includes his new bothy cash-in book due to be out next Spring. 2. They should refund any and all monies received from...

A correction to the suggestion that bothies were secret in the nineties and the hinted at implication that the SBB has somehow done hill goers as service in providing locations: It must be remembered that bothy grid references have been readily available either through the MBA, or elsewhere since t...

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