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July 2011 – Team Update
Mickledore & Crinkle Crags by Nick Petrie
In early June we changed from our benched path project on Bracken Hause on the north side of Helm Crag, covered in our last update. We have completed around half of this zigzagging benched path and will return to finish this later in the year.
Part of the team has since been working with the Northern Team on the north side of Stake Pass. This is the third year of work on this sub-soil path and more information on progress should be available in the Northern team updates.
The rest of the team has been working with the Western team on two different projects.
We initially joined the Western team to help them finish the final stretch of repaired path on the route up to Mickledore, part of a popular route to Scafell Pike. We helped complete the last 20 metres or so of stone pitching, built a couple of drains and finished it off with landscaping.
It was good to be working with stone again, after lots of digging, turfing and benching on Bracken Hause.
(pictured) Ian working on a section of the Mickledore route stone pitching
Read the full Southern Team July update
June 2011 team update
Constructing a switchback
The arrival of spring marked the end of estate work for the South Lakes footpath team and the beginning of our program of footpath work on the fells. As mentioned in our last update – we began the construction of a benched zigzagging path below Helm Crag that will hopefully guide walkers along a more sustainable line than the old route that went strait up the slope and had turned into an unsightly erosion scar.
Read the full June Southern Team update
March 2011 team update
Spring is in the air!
Over the last month we’ve completed the large project mentioned in last months report at Hallgarth in Little Langdale and have helped the South Lakes countryside rangers to try and tick off some of the jobs on what seems like the an ever increasing list of things of to do in and around the property.
(Pictured) Spot the Ranger....One positive aspect of filling bags is that at lunchtime there is shelter to be found on the fell if the weather is too bad in the shape of the empty helicopter bags themselves.
Read the full March Southern Team update
February 2011
Many hands make light work!
February has been a month where we have been able to get on with stone work once again! The weather and numerous repair jobs around the property have meant that we have not been able to start on some of the larger projects that were planned for the winter months. The cold weather and rain have meant that many walls have tumbled and we have set forth to repair the numerous gaps, as Nick and Ian can be seen working on.
Read the full February Southern Team update
December 2010 and January 2011
Snow go!
December was a month dominated by cold weather and snow, though work continued as best we could, walling and any work that involved digging was not possible, as the ground was too hard and the stones were frozen. However we simply altered our plans and went hedge laying instead, with the Fix the Fells volunteers coming to help us on a hedge near to Wray village, it was a record turn-out for us, with 19 attending!
read more about the work of the Southern Fixers in December and January
To find out more about the work carried out by the team, visit the team diary archive.