MYTHOLMROYD Bell House Moor & Erringden Moor

 Bell House Moor and Erringden Moor: - 'Boardwalks 'R US'

On a day that started cloudy, but became very humid before ending in a sharp heavy shower, Billie, Linda H, Ray, Rich and Frank H pitched into boardwalk construction and installation.

Here's how the day went:

Preliminaries:

1. "We might look peaceful at the moment but if you
give us any trouble we'll treat you to a stampede!"

Thankfully the large herd of cows with calves were
far less skitterish than they were last Wednesday

2. This is the sort of area that
needs a boardwalk to stop
the development of an ever-
widening path across a SSSI.

The work session:

3. Boardwalk construction and careful
spacing of the cross-treads.

4. Anchoring stobs hammered
into place. 1.8 m stobs being
used here because of soft ground.

5. The humidity is increasing; time for a water-break.

6. Back to it! Stobs being
trimmed to fit flush.

End of the day:

7. The boardwalk lengthens, but
the greying sky threatens rain.

8. "It's raining heavily now. We love it and we'll
walk as slowly as we like . . . because there are
more of us . . . and we are bigger. Much bigger!"

The work today wasn't without its glitches. One 3 m section of the boardwalks had to be partly prised up and re-aligned so it negotiated an awkward, tussocky stretch of ground, and became a better follow-on from previous sections. However, overall progress was good. 

On Wednesday (weather permitting) we plan to add the last three sections to this length of boardwalk and then start on a short, angled section that will run right to left at the beginning of the boardwalk (top left in picture 7). As it is sometimes said; "The end is nigh!"