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 Working on Pen Y Fan building a drainage ditch
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 Some 200,000 visitors a year use the footpath we're helping to maintain.
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 First a ditch is dug and the front lined with dug in stones
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 Then the base lined, again dug in so they hold fast
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 The base of the ditch is spade width, so it can be easily cleared
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 The base of the back wall is then dug out and lined to wedge the base in place
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 Gaps are filled with stones and soil, all tanped in
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 A finished section. Turf added for additional support and prevent erosion
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 Happy volunteers a new section of drain complete
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 Glimpse of the view between the clouds
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 Relaxing back in the bunk house - with wood burning stove
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 What a difference a day makes - a clear view
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 Ditch complete we head up the moiuntain
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 Of course being OCV we have tools and clear the ditches and culverts on the way up!
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 Breath taking
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 The long walk home
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 Wind sculpture
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 Where's Heathcliff?
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 Dan-y-Gyrn bunkhouse
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 Hay on Wye
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 Selection of stones is important
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 And digging a good trench is important too
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 First: place upright stones along path edge
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 Next: line the base of the drainage ditch with large stones
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 Then: put stones in line with the hillside for water to drain down into your new ditch
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 Partially completed section of ditch
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 BBQ dinner
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 Chef Andy
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 Day 2: Section completed yesterday looks authentic
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 Day 2: putting some turfs in to fix the soil in place
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 Day 2: finished article
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 Visibility was low this year
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 3 men supervise while 1 woman digs
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 Commuting up Pont ar Daf
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 Tea and scenery
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 Dinner time at Dan y Gyrn base camp
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 The Ditch Pitching Gang
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 A beautifully pitched ditch
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 It was very windy - we aren't just being silly!
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 Lydia working on a calvert
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 Jo pitching in
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 A pitched ditch
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 OCV tasks aren't all about work...
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 Says it all really...
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 A walk in the woods
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 Sgwd-yr-Eira waterfall
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 Climbing Mount Fog
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 At the summit
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 More juncus plantations
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 Amazing juncus plantation - surely pedestrians will now not stray off the path!
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 Lunch break
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 Inigo flying his kite
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 Going to the pub
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 Tea break
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 Where is jo?
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 Hmmm... not sure what's going on there!
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 Great photo where no-one is looking
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 Digging ditches for drainage
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 Setting off
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 Culvert clearing
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 Lunch time
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 Happy path-maintainers at lunchtime
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 Continuing upwards
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 Sgwd-yr-Eira waterfall
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 Steep scramble on our walk
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 Completed stone pitched culvert
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 Completed culvert
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 Playing pass the pigs at the NT base camp
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 The result of a hard days work
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 The serious art of Pictionary
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 Barbeque time
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 Chopping firewood at the basecamp
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 Clearing rubble from the path ready for new scalpings
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 View from Pen y Fan
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 A fine specimen!
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 Beautiful scenery... lucky Welsh people!
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 Top of Pen-y-Fan
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 Men lighting a barbecue
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 Sgwd yr Eira - A very fine waterfall and a good spot for lunch
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 Dan Y Gyrn Base Camp - Official Photo!
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 View from behind Sgwd-yr-Eira falls.
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 Lunch stop at Sgwd-yr-Eira waterfalls
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 Woodland footpath down to waterfalls on day off
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 Sgwd Clun-gwyn waterfall
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 At the Storey Arms after a day's culvert clearing
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 Path down from Corn Du
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 Culvert cleared of debris, with outflow channel extended toward edge.
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 Liz & Naomi clearing one of the final culverts.
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 Our descent from Pen-y-Fan and Corn Du whilst culvert clearing
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 Peaty pond near the obelisk; Corn Du
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 Chris takes time out from the executive stress of leading
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 A culvert unblocking team at work, with Corn Du in the background
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 Working our way down Corn Du for lunch at the obelisk
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 Resting atop Pen-Y-Fan, highest point in the Brecon Beacons
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 Digging new drainage ditches along footpath
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 National Trust warden spreading grass seed in the new ditches
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 View south down valley from top of Pen Y Fan
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 Looking down on Cribyn from the blustery peak of Pen Y Fan
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 National Trust training on the essential conservation skill of 'leaning on a spade and chatting'
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 Tea cosy - de rigeur in the Beacons
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 Lunchbreak
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 Beacons Way - worn deep and wide by many feet and lots of water
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 Rob Reith - National Trust Access Warden for Brecon Beacons NP
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 Descent back down from worksite to basecamp
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 Where's Renaud......?
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 Naomi flipping lamburgers on the barbecue back at basecamp
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 Grass-seeding to help bind the thin soil
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 Human JCBs! - digging out drainage ditch and backfilling spoil on to the trail
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 Out for a walk on our free day
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 Climbing up the Craig Cerrig - it was actually sunny (for a while)
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 We had great views on our free day.
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 Second work site
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 What a jovial bunch of people
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 OCV and the National Trust show their undying loyalty to Queen & Country
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 Anyone for Chess?
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 Crossing a bridge to get to our work site - the previous one collapsed!
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 The Henrhyd waterfall
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 Rob, the National Trust warden
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 Base camp
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 The badger, of course
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 Our fearless task programmer
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 Dinner at base camp
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 Walking along the ridge after we finished work
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