Aim: To maintain simple shelters in remote country for the use and benefit of all who love wild and lonely places.
This bothy is no longer an MBA Bothy and has been handed back to Ben Alder Estates. The MBA and the former Bothy Maintenance Organisers no longer entertain enquiries and have no further responsibility regarding this bothy.
It is dangerous to enter or use the Bothy or even to approach it as there is now exposed asbestos on the interior and outer walls of the Bothy.
You will therefore have to make other arrangements until the situation can be remedied or the Bothy is destroyed and rebuilt!
The Culra Bothy Maintenance Organisers are devastated at the inappropriate action that has led to the closure of Culra Bothy, and hope that those responsible within the MBA will take immediate action to have the Bothy replaced and then re-opened for use by the MBA members. The presence of Asbestos in the walls and ceiling of the building is a fact that the Maintenance Organisers (who have now both resigned from their duties) have known about since they began their duties many years ago. It is important that the regular members of the MBA understand that the reason that the Bothy had to be closed to visitors and to Bothy members, resulted when members of the executive of the MBA ignored the warnings and advice of the Maintenance Organisers, and exposed large sections of asbestos in the walls. by ripping out sections of the walls and the wooden panels covering over the asbestos material.
It is therefore entirely the responsibility of those at the top levels of the MBA, that this Bothy has had to be closed.
Culra Bothy with Ben Alder in the background in May, 2012