We’d made good progress on the previous day – more than half the 20 tonne pile of material had been shifted. Our plans for this day were to patch up more trail on the north side of the pitch and to move material to the triangle area using Rafe and his Land Rover. Things started at […]
Trail build report: Sun 16th Dec 2012 – trail patching Piper’s and North side Read More »
After a week of frosty mornings then we expected to turn up to find the ground frozen solid. As luck would have it the weather turned warmer on Friday and we were promised a bit of rain. Saturday morning dawned with no rain in sight, so we were feeling lucky again. Our plans for the
Trail build report: Sat 15th Dec 2012 – trail patching South side Read More »
Earthline delivered another mixed load of 18 tonnes of type 1 limestone and 2 tonnes of gabion (rocks). This was moved over the next two build days: Saturday Sunday See our complete build diary.
20 tonnes delivered to the trail Read More »
This was a last minute trail odd job session. Jez and myself (Tom) raked the newly opened section on the north side. We then fixed the top log step on Piper’s hill. A loose step on Pete’s steps was also put back into place. We did a bit of a survey ready for our next trail
Trail odd job session: Sat 1st Dec 2012 Read More »
Raking leaves off the trail is is an important job that we do every Autumn (see photos from 2011, 2010 and 2009). We had a brilliant turnout for this! We had three teams of four plus two more doing a litter sweep. As a result of this level of support then we had everything finished within two and a half
Trail raking session: Sat 10th Nov 2012 Read More »
We’d made significant progress on the previous day Our plans for Sunday were to use up the last of the material on a short section near the rock spine and then compact, dust and finish off the whole section. The air temperature was noticeably higher – it’d been hovering around 3 and 4 degrees
Trail build report: Sun 28th Oct 2012 – North side Read More »
The trail on “the north side” is the oldest section, dating from mid 2008 and some minor tweaks in Sept 2009. This area had withstood 4 years of use without too much trouble until the summer of 2012. Numerous muddy pot holes had formed. The result of a very thin layer of material (15mm in
Trail build report: Sat 27th Oct 2012 – North side Read More »
Earthline delivered 20 tonnes of material. This time we went for 18 tonnes of type 1 limestone and 2 tonnes of 10mm down rocks. This was used on the build days (Saturday and Sunday). Complete build diary. Future build events are shown on our calendar.
Trail build report: Fri 26th Oct 2012 – 20 tonnes of material Read More »
Phil and Jez spent a few hours building an anti-bike fence near the triangle entrance. This is designed to keep the bike trail and footpaths apart from each other. Full trail build diary.
Trail fixing session: Sunday 7th Oct 2012 – triangle fence Read More »
We had a head start because all 20 tonnes of material had been shifted on the previous day. We also had a new delivery option: Chris Bevington brought a trailer to tow behind his Hi-Lux. We set off for the triangle and split into two groups. One group concentrated on an adjustment to the trail
Build report: Sun 9th Sept 2012 -Triangle top up & North side Read More »
