Winter Meet

The meet will be held at the Pottery Bunkhouse in Laggan Bridge, PH20 1BT. Tel: 01258 544231. GR: NN 619 937 (www.potterybunkhouse.co.uk). The owner, Linda Whitty, looks forward to welcoming us.

 

The Bunkhouse is located at Laggan Bridge (6 miles from Newtonmore, 8 miles from Kingussie) and is well signposted. Take the A9 north from Perth towards Inverness, turn off at Dalwhinnie onto the A889, pass the Distillery following the signs to Laggan and Fort William. The Bunkhouse is situated on the right after about 7 miles, just before reaching Laggan Bridge and the A86 junction.  Newtonmore and Kingussie railway stations are both stops on the major services between Edinburgh/Glasgow and Inverness.

 

We are booked in for the Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. This is a purpose-built, well equipped hostel popular with mountaineers and we have reserved 24 places for members in three dormitories at £12.00 pppn - sleeping bags are required. The hostel can accommodate up to 10 more, so we may be sharing. There is ample car parking but camping is not allowed. 

 

Breakfasts and dinner will be provided (apart from Thursday night), when the Monadliath Hotel (01258 544276) and the Laggan Gaskmore Hotel (01528 544250) are both nearby for dinner, for those not wishing to self-cater.

 

Laggan Bridge is centrally placed to take advantage of the best snow conditions north to the Monadhliath, east to the Cairngorms or west to Creag Meagaidh etc. Members are warmly invited to make this meet a great success and I look forward to enjoying some excellent Scottish mountaineering with you!