Walk with a Spade on Bynack More

Day two of Mountain Maintenance on paths in the Cairngorms National Park. This time Mountains & The People volunteers Nikki, Bryan and Samuel cleared 104 drainage features. It was a bit of a wild day in ever sense. It felt like we were a million miles from civilisation, in fact apart from the paths, it was difficult to spot evidence of humans. The weather was also wild, meaning we had our lunch in a storm shelter. Looking down the valleys and watching the clouds sweep through, it was easy to imagine what it would have been like when the ice sheets swept through. There was lots of Polytrichum Moss, which Rosie (from the Mountains & The People) shared her way of remembering. It looks like a jester's hat, jester's are known for playing tricks, and there are lots (poly) of them.