Long Loch View - Harelaw Dam 4 Traditional Cache
Hidden : 5/5/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Number 4 of a series of caches that take you on a circular tour of the Harelaw Dam. The whole series takes about 2 hours and walking boots are recommended.

Harelaw Dam was constructed in 1844. It is a large shallow reservoir (average depth 7 feet and maximum 13 feet) extending to 102 acres and has over 3 miles of shoreline. There are 4 dams and three islands.


The fourth cache in the series takes you to a remote and seldom visited spot at the head of Long Loch, which is the source of the Levern Water. The best description we have found of this superb spot is in T.C.F. Brotchie's 1925 work, "The Borderlands of Glasgow".

"It is tough walking, mostly bog and marsh, which leads us through a moorland wilderness round the steep shoulder of the scaur that shuts out the Long Loch from the rest of the world. It is a lonely spot, and in it is the Long Loch, the cradle of the Levern Water. Those who love solitude will meet and embrace it on this bare and unblessed moorland, where there is naught of human life and where we hear naught but the half wail of the peesweep or eerie cry of the curlew."

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Perivpr arne n cbvagl ebpx.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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