We did a lot in 2011 – see the build diary round up. The plan for early 2012 is to finish the new triangle section (bottom right in the map below). This will add around 950m of new trail including two new bridges, some rock features, an optional elevated wood section and a load of [...]
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 [...]
We did a lot in 2011 – see the build diary round up. The plan for early 2012 is to finish the new triangle section (bottom right in the map below). This will add around 950m of new trail including two new bridges, some rock features, an optional elevated wood section and a load of [...]
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 [...]
We did a lot in 2011 – see the build diary round up. The plan for early 2012 is to finish the new triangle section (bottom right in the map below). This will add around 950m of new trail including two new bridges, some rock features, an optional elevated wood section and a load of [...]
We did a lot in 2011 – see the build diary round up. The plan for early 2012 is to finish the new triangle section (bottom right in the map below). This will add around 950m of new trail including two new bridges, some rock features, an optional elevated wood section and a load of [...]
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 [...]
