Every year Mendip Ramblers'
Association concentrates on opening up paths in a particular area.
The year's work culminates in a Walking Festival held over the
August Bank Holiday. Every day over this three day holiday period
there are three different walks available, all led by regular
work party members. These walks vary in length from 5 miles to
10 miles and highlight the extensive work we have carried out.
Shown below are a series of photographs taken during work parties
from MAY 2005 to SEPTEMBER 2005. Bob Berry organises all the work
with the regular weekly team of Colin, Rick, Dave O, Owen . Many
others such as Gus, Dave W, Doug, Derek and Trevor also help regularly.
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Normally we don't have 5 working
on ONE stile!
10th May |
Doug tests out a"horse step"version
May 10th |
Extremely rare photo! Owen's in it!
May 17th |
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A path can't be more blocked than
this.Derek and Bob show where the stile has to go.
24th May |
Dave doing most of the work as usual
24th May |
About 2 hours later .....
24th May |
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Another "before" photo. We don't like
huge trees nearby .. they usually mean roots .. and hole digging
problems
26th June |
Well that's one of the stiles done
26th June |
And that's the second one in plus the plank bridge.
All together a full morning's work
26th June |
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We like bashing through hedges
26th June
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Another good result
26th June |
Gus a new regular
2nd August |
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Time for a rest
9th August |
Nearly finished -- another rest
9th August |
James lets Bob do the work
20thSeptember |
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We thought you'd like to see Colin working while
everyone else rests ......
20thSeptember |
And here's a posed photo of most of the main suspects
20thSeptember |
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