Between the Cleavage Traditional Cache
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Parking at N56° 09.372’ W04° 45.425’
Glen Douglas runs between the A82 (Lochlomondside west shore) and the A814 (Loch Long east shore) for a distance of about 5 miles. The road is pretty rough and single track most of the way. The trouble with that is you could be in severe danger of going off the road due to gawking at the fabulous views on offer along the Glen.
The cache is hidden part way up Tullich Hill towards the west end of the glen. It’s 656 m horizontally and 140 m vertically up, that’s about 1 in 2.5 though it starts off shallow and gets steeper.
Make sure you take a rucksack to carry your gear; you might want your hands free for the scramble as you get near the cleavage.
As you go up the hill look back across the glen to the north side of Doune Hill where you’ll see the Glen Douglas NATO Defence Munitions Centre emerge from the side of the hill.
Although a NATO asset, the Ministry of Defence is the sole user of the depot. The Glen Douglas facility is enormous, covering 650 acres of land and employing 120 people. There are 56 storerooms built into the hillside, and a number of processing and engineering workshops. The main function of the munitions centre is the storage of a high volume of bombs, ammunition, explosives and pyrotechnics, mainly conventional weapons. Glen Douglas has storage capacity for almost 40,000 cubic metres of explosives and munitions are transported there by rail and sea with Royal Fleet Auxiliaries docking at Glen Mallen on Loch Long. Glen Douglas also has a large fleet of lorries that travel up to 400,000 miles a year transporting munitions to bases across the UK.
The Glen Douglas facility is used regularly by the British Armed Forces to stock up on munitions before the start of conflicts. In January 2003, the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal berthed at Glen Mallan to collect munitions from Glen Douglas before heading for the Gulf and the war in Iraq. Two train drivers based in Motherwell refused to drive a freight train from Glasgow to Glen Douglas forcing the MoD to transport the cargo by road.
Enjoy the climb and the views.
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