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Outrage over misuse of Highland bothy with volunteers cleaning human waste and rubbish for hours
31.05.2022 - 18:15 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scottish mountain volunteer has expressed his shock at the state hikers and campers left a popular bothy in the Highlands.
The shelters are vital for helping to offer refuge and places to sleep for those in need – however, they are often left open to abuse.
Neil Reid, 64, took to Twitter to share his outrage after spending hours dealing with the rubbish and human waste left at Corrour Bothy in the Cairngorms.
The Mountain Bothies Association volunteer, who is based in Kirkcaldy, posted on his personal Twitter feed: "Just some of the rubbish and abandoned food and kit we burned and carried out from Corrour Bothy in the Cairngorms this weekend.
"Spent three hours burning rubbish! And that was on top of our intended task of restacking sacks of human waste.
"Hate to say it, but some folk really don't deserve to use bothies."
In the photos, Corrour, which is used regularly by walkers on the route between Braemar and Aviemore, was covered in plastic wrappers, leftover food and used hiking equipment.
With volunteers only able to visit sporadically due to its remote location, Neil expressed his frustration that they are only heading there to deal with the maintenance of the building and not other people's rubbish.
"The use of Bothies is becoming more popular," He said. "And it can be a problem if people don't keep on top of looking after them, it can get really bad.
"Saturday was the worst I'd seen it for a long time, with a depressing amount of rubbish and abandoned food and kit.
"We spent three hours redding the bothy up and burning food, rubbish and abandoned clothes, then walked back out with sacks laden with the unburnable rubbish and kit. Really very disappointing.
"Carrying out someone else's rubbish isn't what we are
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