after 6 months off of bike packing after our nepal trip (pushing a bike over a 5460+ meter pass and then doing the longest descent of your life is both hard work and hard to supass... pluss then we hit a bumper ski touring season in the uk. .... so anyway i have fixed my brakes dusted the nepal mud off my seat pack. and eve and i did a nice 50 miles of gravel and single track in newcastleton and keilder forrest staying at wainhope bothy . so basically just tok a mat and small sleeping bag as great weather and decent caffe for breakfast hah .... good way to ease back in to this so hello again everyone ....

Thought wainhope was closed till end August?

https://www.mountainbothies.org.uk/both ... /wainhope/

oh dear i thought i had checked but maybe miss read it , no information about it beeing closed at the bothy itself, it had even been visited by a few MBA menbers according to the vistiors book last week , so they are not doing a verry good job of warning people, so ye maybe they should put a sign up or something...

Fair enough !

Single Speed George wrote:oh dear i thought i had checked but maybe miss read it , no information about it beeing closed at the bothy itself, it had even been visited by a few MBA menbers according to the vistiors book last week , so they are not doing a verry good job of warning people, so ye maybe they should put a sign up or something...

We passed the forest road that leads to Wainhope on the borders 220 and there was a sign saying it was closed. Maybe you came in from the other side. I believe it gets closed during nesting season as a pair of ospreys nest near it.

Ray Young wrote:

Single Speed George wrote:oh dear i thought i had checked but maybe miss read it , no information about it beeing closed at the bothy itself, it had even been visited by a few MBA menbers according to the vistiors book last week , so they are not doing a verry good job of warning people, so ye maybe they should put a sign up or something...

We passed the forest road that leads to Wainhope on the borders 220 and there was a sign saying it was closed. Maybe you came in from the other side. I believe it gets closed during nesting season as a pair of ospreys nest near it.

Update. Just been looking at where Wainhope actually is. The sign we saw was hung on a chain barring a track going off the forest drive. Problem is it was 4k away and the track the chain was barring didn't even lead to the bothy!