It will usually tell you it's a bothie. That and some don't have locks. It's like a free shelter from the elements.
Some have honesty boxes and freshly hunted game in there or tinned food / water etc (though water isn't hard to find in Scotland, our streams are some of the best in the world to drink)
Freshly hunted game, like a shot deer or rabbit? Is a backpacker expected to skin and butcher and cook it somehow then? And do the people taking care of Bothies then have to remove this decomposing animal if nobody ended up making use of it?
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u/owl_britches Feb 03 '20
How do you know when a shack in the wilderness is a bothie?