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LM Bothy -Audio Cast

March 15, 2013John D Burns 4

Chicken soup, why you shouldn’t burn down a bothy and the wonders of coal. All hot suff as I visit another remote Highland bothy [...]

Chicken soup, why you shouldn’t burn down a bothy and the wonders of coal. All hot suff as I visit another remote Highland bothy [...]

March 10, 2013johndburns 15

Looking down through the ice that masks the surface of the river Kingie I marvel at the clarity of the water. I can [...]

February 24, 2013johndburns 14

I’m afraid there’s no way round it. I’m going to have to tell you, and you, dear reader, are just going to have [...]

A challenge was laid down and, as ever, I couldn’t resist it. Here is a little 15 min audio version of my blog [...]

There is one activity us mountaineers don’t talk about much. It gives us such joy that we’re afraid that if we let the [...]

I posted this on the UKClimbing website and thought you might enjoy it Mountain climbing is such fun I think I’ll do it [...]

It finally happened, after over thirty years on the hills, an enforced bivi! I think I’m pushing back the frontiers of incompetence now. [...]

Last weekend I was alone in the Scottish mountains. At one point I was high on a narrow ridge of windblown snow with [...]