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    In the Gairloch area.                                                    09/06/85

~ Osgood Mackenzie, writing in A Hundred Years in the Highlands of his boyhood in the 1850s, mentions this place.

"Sometimes we put up at the  - - - -   - - - - - -   bothy, but its roof in those days was very leaky, and there was little to be gained by being under its protection."
 
The roof has been fixed since then, I think. Traditionally the near end of the bothy has been left open, with the rest well locked, but I'm not sure of the current situation.
    In a small northern glen.

16/04/84
    . . . and again.

16/04/84