A place to avoid

Recently I completed my Masters in Business Administration for Sustainable Business from Bainbridge Graduate Institute. After graduation, a number of the graduates decided to go on a trip. We selected Scottish Lakes High Camp as our destination.

The owners of this place, Don and Chris, were a nightmare to deal with. Part of our issue was that we had two young children. They insisted on "lapping" them along in their suburbans up the road"), instead of properly securing them in car seats. They refused to allow us to take our own vehicle, wasting time and effort in a parking lot simply to transfer people and cargo from our fully packed 4x4 into "theirs" - something that they had no rational explanation for (or bothered to provide). They also pointedly ignored multiple communications ahead of time as we prepared for our arrival and were hoping to have a few key questions answered. All in all, it made for a highly stressful situation and trip.

As a long time local mountain guide and former ranger, this is a gorgeous place and it's in a beautiful setting. That assertion excludes the owners however, who also are contributing to the air & noise pollution in the area by operating snowmobiles right up to (and sometimes crossing over into) the Alpine Lakes Wilderness (were I used to patrol, in fact). That makes this a place I'm wholeheartedly not recommending to anyone - avoid it like the plague.