east side

Trail build report: 30 people, 20 tonnes (start, exit, mway1, east side)

See the complete Croft trail build diary. After low key build days in December (triangle surfacing) and January (triangle woodwork) we had a big day planned. Twenty tonnes of build materials had been delivered on Thursday morning: half a tonne of gabion (rocks) and 19.5 tonnes of type 1 limestone. Our target was to shift all of this …

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Trail build report: Sat 5th Jan 2013 – east side drainage & triangle tweek

This was a follow on from our initial drainage work and the nocturnal digging session the previous evening. At 1:30pm we had Phil Mayger, Jerome Crametz and myself (Tom) ready to dig a canal. We found Chris Hopkinson wandering around the trail and he joined us. We linked the ditch that I’d dug the previous evening with …

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Trail build report: Sat 29th Dec 2012 – OCD work (start, mway, east side,triangle)

This was a bonus build session on the Saturday after Christmas. When I arrived at the special festive late start time of 11am then I found Phil Mayger, Phil Allum, Jez, Gary Palmer and Shaun Carolin standing in the rain raring to go. After the heavy rain then we found plenty of OCD  (obsessive compulsive …

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