If you enjoy spending time in the great outdoors, both in Scotland and elsewhere, it's to these trailblazers that you owe a debt of gratitude for helping to ensure you still have the right to do so.

It was the birth place of not one, but two of Scotland's early mountaineering clubs (the Lomond and the Creagh Dhu). Amongst others Tom Weir, later to become an influential writer and broadcaster, was a regular visitor to the fire where those passing would stop to make a brew and talk with others doing the same.

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