Hunting for the hidden ‘Green Bothy’ in Kielder Forest

Wanting to explore more mountain bothies in the UK as somewhere interesting to camp for future expeditions, I decided I should find the ‘Green bothy’ that’s located in the Northumberland national park.

 

Taking the train to Haltwhistle, the route would be almost 24 kilometres (so a little more than a half marathon) from the station to the bothy, via Hadrian’s wall and winding firetracks through Kielder Forest.

 

I get to Haltwhistle at around 1pm in the afternoon and set off to the bothy aiming to arrive there around 730pm. I’m carrying a well-loaded Lowe Alpine Atlas 65 backpack and armed with 2 Forclaz MT 500 hiking poles which are a god-send for the undulating hills of the Northumberland national park.

 

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