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©Andrew Lawson
Last updated: 28/06/08

 
 

Muir Cottage

The Club hut, known as Muir of Inverey, is situated on the north side of the Linn of Dee road, some 8 kilometres West of Braemar, about 200 metres beyond the Inverey Youth Hostel and shortly before the road comes to the river (OS grid reference 076896). It is available for use by Club members and guests accompanying them and also by members of other recognised mountaineering clubs, with whom it is much in demand throughout the year.


Enquiries and booking applications must be made to David Kirk, the Muir Booking Secretary:
Email: muir-booking@cairngormclub.org.uk



The Club has had the use of Muir Cottage for over fifty years, beginning with a lease of the original stone cottage. In 1971 it became possible to purchase the feu through the generosity of a distinguished former Club member, Dr. George A. Taylor, who on his death in 1965 had bequeathed to the Club a quarter of the residue of his estate, amounting to about £4,000. The cottage was then considerably expanded by the construction of a substantial timber extension to replace the former outbuildings. In 2004, with funding from Cairngorm Leader Plus, Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City Councils, Awards for All, the Scottish Mountaineering Trust and other donors including Club members, alterations were undertaken to allow use of the cottage by disabled persons and to form a new kitchen.
 


The accommodation comprises a common room and kitchen in the original stone building and four bedrooms, two washrooms, a member's room and a drying room in the wooden extension. The bedrooms are for 6, 6, 4 and 2 persons in double-tiered bunks, and each washroom has a shower cubicle. The member's room contains four beds reserved for use by members when the 18 bedroom places have been booked by non-members. The bunks are equipped with mattresses, pillows and ample blankets, but these must be used with sleeping bags or sheets and pillowcases. The kitchen is equipped with an electric cooker, a 4-ring hob with oven below, two microwaves, kettles and toasters, a plumbed-in hot water dispenser, and a wide range of utensils, crockery and cutlery. Space heating, water heating and cooking is by electricity. For the bedroom heating 20p coins are needed for the prepayment meters.
 


An innovation this summer (2008) is the provision of a “Midgeater” which ought to reduce the impact of midges during the midge season.  It may take us most of the season to see if there are aspects to its use that we can improve on.  Comments from users of Muir will be welcomed, but users are asked please not to interfere with the unit. Later in the summer we should have new freestanding bunks to replace the built-in ones which have served us well for some 35 years and will be renewing the floorings of the bedrooms.
 

Midgeater


Charges are £4.00 a night for Club members and £8.00 a night for others. Charges for children under 16 are half these amounts. Before leaving the cottage, members should complete a payment slip in the book provided and forward it to the Muir Booking Secretary. Keys will be sent by, or should be collected from, the Muir Booking Secretary.

The cottage is also available for day use to members and their guests accompanying them, the charge being £2.00 per person. Day use should be booked in the same way as overnight use. The use of tents and dormobile-type accommodation within the precincts or on nearby ground is not permitted. Animals are not permitted within the building. During the shooting season, mid-August to mid-October, walkers should before venturing onto the hills check with the local keepers - Mr. Ian Campbell, Pinewood, Inverey (01339 741368) for the Mar Estate; Mr. Stuart Cumming, Loin na Veaich, Glen Ey (01339 741349) for the Mar Lodge Estate.
 


Not all mobile telephone networks reach Muir Cottage. There is a public telephone (coin-operated) just over one kilometre away, close to the bridge over the Ey.