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Anybody camped here recently?  Wondering what the conditions are like these days.

Some interesting excerpt from https://www.kingshousehotel.co.uk/wild-camping/:

It's actually nice to see that the Kingshouse renovation didn't put a stop to this. It felt like there has always been some tents nearby, but haven't seen any during construction. 

If they’re anything like the one, and only, time I did it 20 odd years ago, they’ll be appalling. Listening to the noises emanating from the queued out toilets put an end to any notion of it being ‘wild’ camping. 🤢

Wild? Sounds like you were livid...

I might be a softie, but I actually wouldn’t mind a toilet. Never had a such luxury while “wild camping”, but a bothy with a toilet is quite welcome when it’s howling outside.
 

That, and I don’t think roadside camping will ever be wild anyway! 

Back in my Munro-bagging days we 'wild camped' by the Kingshouse on occasion. Most mornings we would be entertained by the (often) foreign West Highland Wayfarers being mercilessly assaulted by the resident midges. None of them ever seemed to realise how awful they could be.

There also used to be three sections of concrete culvert pipe dumped on the moor by the access road which were handy for post pub bivvies after stumbling out in the wee small hours. It helped to know which was which; the short one kept either your head or your feet dry, but not both...