We tidied up the trail on the South side of the pitch. This was originally build in December 2008. The line was straightened out a bit and a new berm was built in place of a tight corner round a tree. Meanwhile, on the North side of the pitch another pointless corner was removed. Finally …
A deluge of rain meant that some of the woodwork section had floated away. We spent the morning retrieving the missing sections. We tackled the source of the problem by removing overgrown trees from the banks of the river. (At a later date the council came along and cut a massive branch away downstream and …
Trail build report: 14th Dec 2008 – flood. Rock moving to Piper’s hill Read More »
We’d used the Land Rover to move the red type one stone to the South side of the pitch on the previous day. When we arrived then the piles of gravel had frozen solid and we had to smash them to get them moving. Phil and myself spent the day raking out the material and …
Trail build report: 7th Dec 2008 – South side continued Read More »
We made brilliant progress today, digging out 150m of trail and surfacing about 80% of that, with the necessary materials in place to finish it off on Sunday. This is on the Southern edge of the football pitch. We had the Land Rover today, so were able to dump material straight onto the trail. We …
Trail build report: 6th Dec 2008 – South side of pitch Read More »
It’s still early days on the trail and the current aim is to get the basic route finished. Some of the route is a bit bare, and there’s not enough features on it yet, but that will all be sorted in the fullness of time. The aim is add more raised woodwork, bermed corners, jumps …
