With the start of the new year, we were back down from our path repair work on the fells and getting stuck into some lower level work around the valleys.
Tuesday 2 April 2024
Winter work around Great Langdale and Troutbeck Park
Monday 13 November 2023
Continuing our work up on Stone Arthur
After completing the repairs lower down the path on Stone Arthur, we commenced work up towards the summit.
Our work here was interspersed with days out around the Central and Eastern Lakes surveying the upland footpaths. During the surveys, we photographed damaged areas of path and graded the severity of the damage. This work will be used to set a benchmark on the state of the paths and will also help us identify priority work.
The section being repaired on Stone Arthur had started to get a lot worse over recent years and was being badly gullied out by the rain.
Tuesday 1 August 2023
Repairing the footpath at Stone Arthur
Since our last update, we've been busy working on the footpath at Stone Arthur. We started collecting stone for the path repairs back in April at Tongue Gill, the next valley along from Stone Arthur. The rock was flown by helicopter to site in early May.
Tuesday 7 March 2023
Deer Fencing around the Central and Eastern lakes
Since finishing our upland path repair programme for the year we've been working lower down on the property. To date, much of our work has been in the National Trust owned woodlands in Ambleside, Windermere and Troutbeck.
Our first job was extending a deer exclosure at Common Wood just outside Windermere. We originally worked on the exclosure back in 2020 but it was decided that we should double its size.
The exclosure will allow the woodland to regenerate without any grazing by deer or sheep, which should give an opportunity for woodland flowers to come through without being nibbled off.
Friday 11 November 2022
Footpath repairs at Bracken Hause
Sunday 19 June 2022
Returning to Loughrigg
For the third consecutive year, we've been back repairing the path on Loughrigg Fell. Once again, we've been replacing sections of the original path and also adding some stonework to areas that have suffered from erosion damage, this time helped out by new team member Josh.
The following two photographs show a section of footpath immediately above where we finished last year. You can see that the path has eroded quite badly and has formed a sizeable gulley.