Ben Cruachan Gippsland
The Ben Cruachan Walking Club was established on 26 June 1965 by a group of like-minded bushwalking
enthusiasts at a meeting on the summit of Ben Cruachan, a mountain rising to 836 metres about 25 kilometres northwest of Maffra. The 'bump' at the summit of Ben Cruachan is from a now disused helipad . The locals say that when they are travelling along the highway from Melbourne, when they see Ben Cruachan, recognized by its 'bump', they know they are nearly home.
The Ben Cruachan Walking Club celebrated its 50th Anniversary on 26 June, 2015 with a Saturday night dinner and a Sunday morning walk up, and picnic on, Ben Cruachan (Gippsland). And the views from Ben Cruachan are spectacular.
Ben Cruachan Scotland
Ben Cruachan (Gaelic: Cruachan) is a 1126 metre mountain that is the highest point in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It gives its name to the Cruachan Dam, a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station located in a cavern inside the mountain. It is the high point of a ring of mountains, known as the Cruachan Horseshoe, that surrounds the power station reservoir. The horseshoe includes a further Munro (Stob Diamh) a Corbett (Beinn a'Bhuiridh), and several susidiary summits.
