9/10/18

Estelle Sandford, James Begley, Mike Moxon, Jonathan Riley, Dave Walker, Fran Campbell.

2.5hrs

6 new buckets. As we were just 5 at the start, we decided it was time to tackle the steps issue as that meant we could bag fill as the spoil between the bags was catching up so need to raise the bags more around the ladder especially. Took it in turns to dig – 2 people can work on the steps, one bottom and one middle and the rest rotated around. Fran turned up around ½ hour late and helped even the numbers. Looked at the end, bit of a puddle. We may be able to use the big boulder as part of the steps possibly, it still needs breaking up though. By the end of the session, we’d cleared quite a bit of step back and decision is to cement in a retaining wall of rock at the bottom and work up from there. The wall on the left as you look up is currently undermined and the left side does look like it’s mainly mud with a few large rocks in it, so this needs retaining. Right wall seems to be solid rock at least. Get some cement, sand and dust for next week.