Most of this week I have been working on
Friars Crag installing the riven oak fencing that I mentioned last week. I’ve had ranger colleagues and also my
volunteers working with me so the job is going well. It’s a great place to work because of the
opportunity to talk to so many people about what we are doing. Most of them were very complimentary about
it. You can see for yourselves in the
following pictures but Friars Crag is really a place that needs visiting to
fully appreciate it.
As we worked one day, I noticed a boy of
about 10 years old and his parents. They
arrived at the view-point and the boy said, ”Wow!” to which his mother replied,
“I told you that you’d like it.” They
had obviously conveyed their own appreciation of the place and had created a
bit of magic for him. There was a
strange contrast when I overheard a couple who were presumably making their way
along the lake-side path but had taken the short diversion to the view-point. They reacted with, “Oh, it’s just a
cul-de-sac.” That’s definitely one of
the oddest descriptions I’ve heard of one of the most spectacular views in the
Lakes!
During the week we had school visits for
three days. They stay in the Glaramara
Centre and we go in to work with them in the morning then lead farm walks in
the afternoon. I led the first day with
Dan, one of the other rangers, assisting but then he took over to lead the
other two days.
Last Saturday I went with a few colleagues
including Jessie to Cam Crag Ridge which is in Langstrath. It is a nice, enjoyable scramble and we
practised rope-work with Jessie who is doing her consolidation year for her
Mountain Leadership training.
I mention that to contrast it with Jessie’s
day on Monday when she did a reading in Westminster Abbey at a service for the
dedication of a plaque commemorating Octavia Hill, one of the founders of the
Trust.
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