War Cry! Traditional Cache
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Parking at Inveruglas Car Park. Be careful crossing a busy road. This is a long walk on a good road used by service vehicles for the dam. The last 100 yards to cache is off-piste, boots will be required in damp weather (ok; in Scotland all the time).
Loch Sloy was once the gathering place of the Clan MacFarlane and gave them their famed war cry. The Macfarlane clan came from the western banks of Scotland 's famous Loch Lomond . The clan were a Celtic people in origin. The MacFarlane Clan are descended from Duncan MacGilchrist.
Loch Sloy is now the site of a hydro-electric dam. The dam was constructed in the late 1940's by German and Italian prisoner's of war. The dam was operational by the 1950s.
The waters of Loch Sloy are held back by Sloy dam which is 56 metres high and 357 metres long and upon completion raised the level of the loch by 47 metres and almost doubled its length. Water is diverted into Loch Sloy from areas well to the north and south via a system of tunnels and aqueducts increasing the catchment area from 17 to 80 sq km. The average annual rainfall within this mountainous area around Loch Sloy is 3,050 mm and each 25 mm of rainfall has the capacity to generate about one million units of electricity on this scheme.
A tunnel 3 km long carries water from Loch Sloy through Ben Vorlich, which towers almost 940m above Loch Lomond to the valve house immediately above Sloy power station. From here the water plunges down the side of the mountain through four large pipelines into the power station at Inveruglas Bay on the shores of Loch Lomond.
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