Fencing work at Hardcastle Crags on 5 November 2017

Today, a select group of three made the hour's journey from Styal to Hardcastle Crags for our third visit of the year.  Harry, one of the three, was a newbie and we assured him that turnouts are usually higher (5 to 10) and sometimes a lot higher (15 last week).

We met Natalie Pownall, Academy Ranger, in the car park at the end of Midgehole Road then drove in her estate vehicle up to the top of Pecket Well.  Today's task was preparatory work ahead of a group upgrading stock fencing around a field.  In all, we carried 60 fence posts approximately 200 metres down to the fence line, set most of them beside the rotten fence posts they will replace and cut back branches overhanging the fence line.

The sun shone down all and we enjoyed a splendid view at lunchtime from a bench beside the Pecket Well war memorial across the Gibson Mill valley to the tiny village of Heptonstall with Hebden Bridge and Stoodley Pike beyond.

Daniel