Glenbeg Bothy on a bike - Blog Post

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 John Burns 25 Apr 2015
I can see the bothy from here. It’s tantalisingly close. In fact I’ve been able to see the bothy for quite a while. Seeing it is not the problem, getting to it is. This is my second attempt to mountain bike into a bothy, I failed last time. It was all a bit embarrassing really, I went the wrong way, had to carry the bike and when finally, I managed to ride it, I fell off and was laughed at by dogs.

This time I am going to make it, even if it kills me as, I am beginning to believe, it certainly will. The first eight miles or so were fine. I actually managed to ride the bike most of the way into Glen Beag to get to the little bothy deep in the Highland glen. All was good until the Land Rover track I was riding stopped ran into a bog. They say you should try everything once. Let me save you the trouble of trying this experience, just take my word for it, pushing a heavily laden mountain bike through a peat bog is absolutely no fun at all. It’s like trying to heave my grandmother sat on a settee, eating chips, across the Himalayas. (She was big woman, my grandmother) In fact if I had managed to enter purgatory without having had this experience I wouldn’t have been too upset at all.

Read more here https://johndburns.wordpress.com/2015/04/25/the-bothies-bikes-and-bogs/
 BusyLizzie 25 Apr 2015
In reply to John Burns:

I enjoyed that - thank you!
OP John Burns 25 Apr 2015
In reply to John Burns:

Thanks Lizzie, really nice to get feedback. Glad you enjoyed it.
 Chris_Mellor 25 Apr 2015
 aln 25 Apr 2015
In reply to John Burns:
Good read. I like the stuff about knowing the world beneath your feet, connects with a lot of what I feel when I go for a walk.
Are you Burnsy who posted on Scottishclimbs?
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 Gav M 25 Apr 2015
In reply to John Burns:
The trick with Glenbeg is to leave your bike at the end of the good track!

Great to see pictures of the bothy with snow around. You jogged my memory about earlier trips to Glenbeg.

Once when there were two bothies (from Alladale)

http://livingmountain.net/2010/11/bothy-trip-to-glenbeg.html

And later when there was just one (from Black Bridge)

http://livingmountain.net/2013/01/return-to-glenbeg-bothy.html
OP John Burns 27 Apr 2015
In reply to aln:

I sometimes post cartoons if that's what you mean.
 aln 27 Apr 2015
In reply to John Burns:

A case of mistaken identity on my part.
 IanMcC 27 Apr 2015
In reply to aln:

You're looking for Stuart Burns.

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