Craigmore

After 6 very interesting and informative weeks of working on Craigmore we built approximately 130m of path. The finished path is a 1m wide aggregate path with anchor bars, water bars, block stone pitching and drainage ditches. Site restoration and natural landscaping was also an important feature of Craigmore’s path work. This included effective re-vegetation and natural landscaping using turf, rocks, waste and spoil won from excavations. With these materials we reinforced path edges, created mounding to block off alternative paths, desire lines and eroded areas. We also restored any damage caused during path works in order to make the ground look as if it has never been touched. For many of us on the trainee team, Craigmore was the first taste of path building so each day brought a brand new skill marinated in lessons to be learned. Although the biggest lesson of all was that in a very similar way to the uplands themselves, upland path work has its own highs and lows - but providing you keep going, the results are usually always hugely rewarding.