After a mild January the temperatures had dropped below zero and a cold weekend with the possibility of snow was forecast. I arrived at 9am to meet Brandon hire who were delivering the compactor and found a keen volunteer already there waiting to go. After I collected the tools then we started loading rubble sacks [...]
Earthline delivered another 20 tonnes of limestone at the trail today. This will be used to finish the triangle section on the upcoming build days (see our events calendar for build days). I’ll add up how much we got through last year soon. I think it’s over 100 tonnes. Trail build update page.
Newly surfaced trail from the previous day. We’d made great progress on the previous day. The tasks for this day were to finish off a few patches in the triangle, spread the limestone dust onto the surface and to make more progress with the exit section. Kristian, John Proudman, Gary Lee, Karl and Cameron spent [...]
The temperature gauge in my car was showing minus 4.5 degrees C as I drove round Cirencester at 8:15am on Saturday morning. It was cold and it was dry. Cold and dry doesn’t feel as cold without dry. There was a frost but the ground wasn’t frozen. Streaming sunlight had fixed that. Brandon Hire dropped [...]
A quick review of what we got up to last year: 15th Oct 2010: 60 tonnes delivered Dec 2010 trail build plans. 28th Dec 2010: new line before triangle. Sat 8th Jan 2011: motorway 2 berms and surfacing. Sun 9th Jan: largest turnout (16 people!) motorway 2 surfacing. Sat 22nd / Sun 23rd Jan: Surfacing [...]
After finishing off the East side on the previous day we decided to fix the section of trail on the South side of the pitch. This had originally been built in December 2008 and modified in September 2009. It had turned really muddy this year – a combination of the original surfaced line being too [...]
On the previous build day we’d surfaced about half of the trail section on the East side of the pitch (build report). Our plans for the day were to surface the remaining 120m. We’d had 20 tonnes of type 1 limestone chippings delivered on Friday morning. Things began at 9am when I arrived and Brandon [...]
Earthline delivered another 20 tonnes of type 1 limestone. This was earmarked for the trail on the East and South sides of the pitch. See the build day report from Sunday 27th Novemeber.
Following on from our progress on Saturday we were planning on filling in a load of trail on the east side of the pitch on this day. Phil and myself arrived at 8:30am in order to collect the power barrow from Jez and to get a head start on the east side. At 10am prompt [...]
We had two targets for the weekend: surface the climb on Piper’s hill plus make a start on the last remaining mud section of the trail: the east side of the pitch. Piper’s hill had been dug out in April 2011 and survived really well as mud (see the build report from April). The onset [...]
