Kasher, Paul, Rich, Ginny and Jan had a long haul with tools and posts from Lumbutts to deal with several problems on the Pennine Way.
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| Tools and posts to go up the top. |
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| Carrying the equipment from Lumbutts. |
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| Ginny, Paul, Jan and Rich |
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| The two sites South West of Stoodley Pike. |
The first job was an unclear junction of paths, one of which leads along Withens New Road (Tod 158) and thence along to Gaddings Dam. A waymark post was put in, and drainage problems were dealt with by digging out channels and scraping the path.
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| Scraping the path. |
The problem on the furthest site was severe erosion of the path which has becomes a quagmire after heavy rain. The cost of creating a route across the erosion is prohibitive. The solution was to improve a short desire line which people have been using to bypass the problem. Two posts were put in plus some improvements were made to the path. Signage will be added . . . when the printers deliver them to us!
Further on, Jan and Ginny dealt with pooling water across the path.
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| Water pooling across the path |
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| Grips put in to channel off the water. |
Just lower down we cleared out one of the turnby drains to keep water off the path.
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| All clear |
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| It's a long way back . . . but with lighter loads. |
On the journey down we tackled another drainage issue and re-seated a marker post to delineate the junction of paths on this route.
Work funded by Natural England and Calderdale Council Highways.
