Scottish Bothy Walks - 28 best bothy adventures
Scottish Bothy Walks describes 28 sensational walking adventures, visiting Scotland’s finest bothies. Choosing his favourite bothies as the focal point, Geoff Allan guides the reader on a mix of day walks and multi-day excursions, highlighting the incredible mountains, wildlife, geography and history that you will find along the way. Combining beautiful photos, detailed route descriptions, points of interest and downloadable instructions, this is the ultimate companion for bothy-lovers and those exploring Scotland’s wilds, written by Scotland’s premier bothy expert.
Scottish Bothy Walks describes 28 sensational walking adventures, visiting Scotland’s finest bothies. Choosing his favourite bothies as the focal point, Geoff Allan guides the reader on a mix of day walks and multi-day excursions, highlighting the incredible mountains, wildlife, geography and history that you will find along the way. Combining beautiful photos, detailed route descriptions, points of interest and downloadable instructions, this is the ultimate companion for bothy-lovers and those exploring Scotland’s wilds, written by Scotland’s premier bothy expert.
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GLENCOUL BOTHY<br />
DIRECTIONS<br />
Day 1 Walk to Glendhu<br />
1 From the car park at<br />
Kylestrome (NC 218 345), head<br />
through a gate and down a<br />
metalled road past the estate<br />
house. After half a mile, as the<br />
road curves away to the R, turn<br />
L along a track signposted to<br />
Loch Glendhu that follows the<br />
shoreline to the Maldie Burn.<br />
3.5km/2.25 miles<br />
2 Cross a wide vehicle<br />
bridge and continue on the<br />
stony path down the lochside<br />
to the <strong>bothy</strong> at Glendhu<br />
(NC <strong>28</strong>3 338).<br />
3.5km/2.25 miles<br />
Day 2 Beinn Leòid, returning<br />
via Glencoul <strong>Bothy</strong><br />
3 Take the path that leads<br />
from the <strong>bothy</strong> past the old<br />
stalkers’ cottage to the head of<br />
the loch. Continue on up into<br />
Gleann Dubh, ignoring a path<br />
on R down to a footbridge<br />
(this is the return route for<br />
this walk). After just over a<br />
mile, the track zigzags up<br />
steeply before levelling out by<br />
Lochan Cadh’ Ailein. Continue<br />
to the vehicle bridge over the<br />
Abhainn a’ Ghlinne Dhuibh<br />
(NC 310 329).<br />
3.1km/2 miles<br />
4 Ignore a path L, and cross<br />
the bridge, ascending beneath<br />
the crags of Cnoc a’ Mhadaidh<br />
to a ford over the Allt Poll a’<br />
Mhadaidh. Continue up to a<br />
wooden bridge (NC 318 320)<br />
where the path peters out.<br />
1.8km/1 mile<br />
5 Stride out across the peat<br />
hags and bog, and up Sàil na<br />
Slataich to the high point (652m).<br />
Drop down a few hundred yards<br />
then climb the steep boulder<br />
field to Beinn Leòid’s summit<br />
and trig pillar surrounded by a<br />
stone shelter (NC 320 295).<br />
2.75km/1.75 miles<br />
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