Climbing hut
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A climbing hut provides accommodation for climbers and mountaineers, close to a climbing area.
In the UK and Ireland the tradition is of unwardened huts providing fairly rudimentary accommodation (but superior to that of a bothy) close to a climbing ground; the huts are usually conversions (eg of former quarrymen's cottages, or of disused mine buildings), and are not open to passers-by except in emergency.
Climbing huts can best be compared with unwarded Alpine huts of category 1.
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[edit] Huts in the United Kingdom
Many climbing clubs in the UK have such huts in Snowdonia or in the Lake District. In additions, the 'senior clubs' (eg Climbers' Club, FRCC, Rucksack Club, Scottish Mountaineering Club) often have acquired huts away from these areas. Well-known examples are:- The 'Charles Inglis Clark Memorial Hut' (the 'CIC Hut') under the northern crags of Ben Nevis - this was a purpose-built hut, high up the mountain, probably nearest in character to the Alpine huts. The Whillans memorial hut near the Roaches in Staffordshire. The 'Count House' near Bosigran in Cornwall.
[edit] Huts in Ireland
In Ireland, the Irish Mountaineering Club runs a hut in the Wicklow Mountains, near Glendalough, and the Dal Riada Climbing Club has a hut at Fair Head in Co. Antrim.
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