Fourteen of us (including 2 newbies) met Ranger Claire in the main car park at Lyme Park, to go rhody bashing in Coal Pit Clough.
We walked from the car park, though the deer enclosure and stood on the slope down to the stream while Claire gave a tools talk and explained that we'd be working on both sides of the stream. She suggested that we had a fire on each side to burn the rhody so we didn't have to keep crossing the stream. Unfortunately it was very muddy and, with working on a steep slope, we had to move quite slowly and carefully so we didn't slip and fall in the mud!
Both fires were slow to ignite as we were in quite a deep ravine and there was little wind to help the fires get going.
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| Fire's on either side of the stream |
Some of the group did however find some very large trunks and roots of rhody, that they just 'had' to remove!
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The really big rhody root that was removed
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We also saw Sue D, who is a MNTV volunteer as well as being a volunteer at Lyme Park. Even though she was Rangering at Lyme today, she managed to take some time out to come and find us and say hello.
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| working hard! |
Although it was a dank day, we still got a lot done and Claire seemed delighted with what we'd achieved by the end:-)
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| Break for lunch |
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