Pathwork at Bosley Cloud on Sunday 13th May 2018

 

 

This Sunday seven of us travelled to Bosley Cloud on what turned out to be a glorious spring day.

We started slowly, hunting for a new signpost that had disappeared, then we made new ones for alongside the new path to discourage wandering off-piste.

We worked our way to the top and stopped for coffee and brownies in the sunshine.

Then Tim the ranger showed us the job for the rest of the day, continuing the path laying which we started earlier this year.  Matt and Neil started on making steps using sawn tree trunks and backfilling them to protect the path from erosion.

Neil gets handy with a mattock making a step

The rest of us hardy volunteers followed Tim who said he had found a nice tree trunk to continue the path. As nesting season is upon us the trunks have to be carried uphill by hand so the rest of us set to heaving it up using straps and mattock handles.

Martin holds the stake in place for Victor to give it a good whacking

 After a lunch break again basking in the Cheshire sunshine we continued our work bringing up another 2 trunks. To finish the day Tim found a longer tree that required a whole team effort to bring up.

Though hard work we had a lovely day and Tim thinks our section of path will last 20 years so we can go back many times to admire our handiwork.