HostelManagement.com interviewed Robin Alexandra Rothschild from the Silverton Inn, hostel in Colorado:

"The Bozeman Backpackers Hostel in Montana opened in 1991 when the original owner, Jim moved to the area after years of traveling and wanted to return the favor of having somewhere cheap to stay and really enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere of the independent hostels he stayed at in Australia and New Zealand.

We Did It Our Way

The Story of Newtonmore Hostel

©Peter Main - 2002. Reprinted with permission — HighlandHostel.co.uk.

The idea started about 25 years ago when I was working as a young(ish) and single Outdoor Instructor on the west coast of Scotland. I was delighted to be living in Scotland but found the west coast rain and midges less than friendly. I was also working in a deep valley aligned north to south and in winter there was so little daylight that I felt I might as well be living in the land of eternal darkness. At the same time I was spending my winter weekends near Aviemore. Initially this was so I could ski but I also found the area had less rain, more sunlight and fewer midges in summer. The idea gradually formed that this was where I would like to live. Life moved on and I switched to teaching in Edinburgh where my job involved long periods of time taking youngsters away into the mountains staying in cheap accommodation both at home and abroad. One weekend we stayed at a place that was dirty, cold, poorly equipped and overpriced. My immediate thoughts were, I could do better than this, much better. By then it was the early 1980s and the idea of Peter's Doss was born: basic but cheap accommodation for climbers and hillwalkers, which would give me sufficient income to allow to live in the Highlands.