{"id":15185,"date":"2017-03-22T16:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=15185"},"modified":"2017-03-22T17:51:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:51:14","slug":"bothy-bagging-scotlands-best-kept-secrets-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=15185","title":{"rendered":"Bothy-bagging: Scotland&#8217;s best-kept secrets revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Scotland_general_Fiona_Newton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15186\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Scotland_general_Fiona_Newton.jpg\" alt=\"Scotland general image\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>Bothies &#8211; remote shelters in the wilderness where walkers can spend the night free of charge &#8211; have long been one of Scotland&#8217;s best-kept secrets. A new book has revealed the location of 80 of the mountain huts.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For more than 50 years\u00a0the Mountain Bothies Association (MBA)\u00a0has maintained an eclectic network of shelters across the wilderness areas of Scotland. The vast majority are single-storey crofts or huts for shepherds which have long since been abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>The secluded hideaways became popular with ramblers and hillwalkers but many were falling into ruin before a group of climbers and walkers formed the MBA to take on their upkeep, with the permission of the owners of the vast estates on which they sit.<\/p>\n<p>The bothy network has never been advertised to tourists and information was always spread by word of mouth between those in the know.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-39205436\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bothies &#8211; remote shelters in the wilderness where walkers can spend the night free of charge &#8211; have long been one of Scotland&#8217;s best-kept secrets. A new book has revealed the location of 80 of the mountain huts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15203,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions\/15203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}