Mountain bike hire for the week at Aberfeldy had been arranged well ahead of arrival. Armed with a map directions were sought for a peddling sortie into the nearby hills. However, obtaining directions from a knowledgeable local took a little longer than at first anticipated, mostly due to a Bazflyer issue translating Scottish speak into something comprehendible. In the course of this process a not well defined mountain trail was referenced in respect to a ‘Bothy’. What on earth was a Bothy? Curiosity demanded a Bazflyer mountain bike mission to discover the Bothy.
As it turned out the Bothy was an equivalent of what in New Zealand we would call a remote mountain hut...a basic shelter, usually left unlocked and available for anyone to use free of charge.
The Bothy
Loch Farleyer
Highlands topography
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