--- andytrailfairy <andy.wardman@...> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Thanks to an awesome effort all round, Saturdays session saw real
> progress made on Mushroom Soup.
>
Thanks for the write-up, Andy!

I don't suppose that anyone (possibly Rich) has discovered an
unexpected water bottle after Saturday's session. I've lost the Hub
one I bought that very morning. I remember putting it back in my
rucksac when I'd emptied it but it may have fallen out somewhere -
possibly in Rich's Tally Wagon?

If anyone finds it I can pick it up at the next 'Fairies session.

Cheers,
Chris
> After thinking some more about the drainage work required on the
> upper
> section of the trail, I realised it would require *an awful lot* of
>
> digging to create the drainage channel needed along the top side of
> the
> trail to properly capture the water seeping out of the hill.
>
> I have to admit here that earlier in the week I even stopped by the
>
> trail to recce' the possibility of squeezing a mini digger in to do
>
> most of the digging for us. This was never going to happen as: (a)
> it's
> way too tight in there for any digger to squeeze in (short of
> felling a
> bunch of trees, which goes against Trailfairy principles*) and (b)
> mini
> digger + roots and large trenches = too flippin' sketchy.
>
> *Next potential 'fairy project (code named 'Fatties') excepted.
> More
> on this soon..
>
> So hand digging it was to be. How do I sell the prospect of hand
> digging a 20m drain for a whole session to the 'fairies I thought?
>
> It's hardly the most glamourous of jobs after all, not exactly
> building
> a sweet bit of northshore or building a nice rock drop off. The
> best I
> could do was a picture of what my plan was for the drainage and 4
> boxes
> of Jaffa Cakes. The picture seemed to go down well, though the
> lack of
> *any* scale didn't go unnoticed! As didn't my ability to swap
> between
> metric and imperial measurements at will! Lucky then that a jaffa
> box
> acted as the perfect width for the foundation trench for the trail
> edge
> rock pitching!
>
> The 'fairies got stuck straight into it, led by the 'human digger'
> that
> is Rich Latimer! Just watching Rich work makes me want to curl up
> under a tree and take a nap!
>
> Meanwhile, the 'fairy numbers were boosted by the arrival of a
> group of
> keen young un's from Adventure Edinburgh and their leader Richard.
> The
> guys came down before Christmas to help on the trail and were back
> for
> some more. They got on with surfacing the drier stretch of trail
> leading upto the 'Helter Skelter' and also widening said turn out a
>
> little more. Over the course of the session they guys hardly
> stopped
> and managed to shift a huge amount of stone from the road above to
> the
> trail. Even more impressive that they managed to avoid wiping out
> in a
> tree coming down the access path with the wheel barrows!
>
> By the end of the session, the whole of the drainage channel and
> rock
> edging trench had been dugout, Helter Skelter had been tweaked and
> around 10m of trail had been surfaced.
>
> A fantastic effort all round. A big thank you to 'fairies Kenneth,
>
> Malcolm, Archie, Alasdair, Chris, Matthew, Rich, Abbey, Angus,
> Steven,
> Alister, Moray, Bob....
>
> ...and Rich, Ruairidh, Glen, James, Jamie, Allan, Rosie and Grant
> from
> Adventure Edinburgh.
>
> I've put a few pics up in the photos bit from the session,
> apologies
> for the crapness of these! The light was not the best, honest!
>
> The next session is on Sat 8th March. I'll get more surfacing
> material
> delivered up aswell as rocks for the trail edge pitching and pipe
> before then. Feel like this trail is finally starting to come
> together. I'm excited!
>
> Hopefully see you at the next session.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
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Chris Lupton
thinkingengine@...

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