Fred and Ray walked from near Walshaw up to Turn Hill re-embedding and adding basic waymark posts to pick out a route across a wet, featureless stretch of moor. Near Turn Hill a stile was surveyed for repair (next week's job!). No photos of today's work but they'll be plenty of the stile next week!
This work was funded by The Heptonstall Fell Race.
Team 2:
Stella and Frank H worked a few contour lines lower down from Team 1, near Lady Royd Farm. Task one was a stile repair. These are not always easy tasks. All the timbers CROWS installed are vertical or horizontal (as needed) so some of the existing structure, although sound, suffers by comparison! In the pictures below, the 'before' shot shows an adequate, but too high, lower step and a rotten treadboard crossing the wall (going into the shot) fixed on a sound but strangely angled leg.
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| Before: The treadboard needs replacing and a lower step needs installing. |
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| Work in progress: New treadboard in place and Stella sizing up one of the legs for the new step. |
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| Work in progress: Better view of the replaced treadboard and of the holes for legs of a new step. |
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| Completed repair: New treadboard and additional step. |
Perhaps only a low score for the aesthetics but top marks for stability and functionality! (Mmm! "Two out of three aint bad"!)
Later in the day:
- a waymark disk was added to indicate the route from Lady Royd up towards Turn Hill.
- the path, below the repaired stile, leading into the woods of Hardcastle Crags was scraped, with encroaching foliage and overhanging branches being cut back.
This work was funded by National Trust (Hardcastle Crags).
