The Loup Traditional Cache
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The Loup of Fintry is a spectacular waterfall up by the Carron Valley Reservoir.
There is parking space for a few cars on the side of the road at the designated way into the Loup of Fintry. It says ¼ mile on the sign but it’s even less than that. Parking is at N56° 03.086’ W04° 09.126’. It is simply marked as ‘Waterfall’ by Streetmap but that is a bit of an understatement! The walk is kiddy friendly and would be just about OK for an all-terrain buggy but keep them away from the edge at the actual falls.
I found the following description on the web which I thought was really over the top….until I got there and then I understood –
“The Endrick is a bold and rapid stream till it reaches the valley of Fintry and wants only wood on its banks in the upper part of the parish, to vie with the most beautiful and sublime of our secondary Scottish rivers. It comes down in a deafening noise over its rocky channel and about two miles and a half to the east of the church it pours its waters over a precipitous rock, 90 feet high……When the river is much swollen, nothing can exceed the grandeur of the scene. In its usual state there are three breaks in this fall; but in a flood, it dashes over the rock upwards of thirty yards wide in an unbroken cataract and rages with unbridled fury against the immense masses of unattached rock at the bottom, from which it “rising wets with misty showers,” the high banks on either side to a considerable distance.”
What more can I say!?!
The usual sort of cache in the usual sort of hiding place.
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