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Maps OS Explorer 318; OS Landranger 77 Grid ref NX 425 906 Terrain Forestry track, followed by boggy but clear trail to the bothy Water source Small stream not far from the bothy Facilities Stove (bring your own fuel); saw (if you use firewood left by others make sure you replace it – only with dead wood, do not cut live trees); shovel Building Stone/brick construction, tiled roof Inside The bothy is made up of just a single room. On arrival you see an L-shaped sleeping platform, a few chairs and a stove. The sleeping platform sleeps four comfortably; the floor space sleeps many more. Nearby hills Shalloch on Minnoch, Kirriereoch Hill, The Merrick, Rhinns of Kells

LOWTHER HILLS

Kettleton Byre

A cosy one-roomed shelter in the often-overlooked Lowther Hills

Kettleton Byre, with its bright doors, is situated in the lonely Lowther Hills

When some of us reach the borderland between the Lowther Hills and northernmost England we have a tendency to speed up. We’re perhaps ending our Highland adventure and keep our foot down, intent on going home, or heading north to explore the ’proper’ mountains, complete with serrated tops and knife-edged ridges, further north.