17 February 2012

The best laid plans .....


The working holiday - that's as far as they got on the first day!
Up here at High Wray Basecamp volunteer centre we're pretty busy all year round with, as you'd expect, volunteers. The exception to this tends to be through the worst of the winter when the weather's too bad to get out and do much work. We use this period to do all our planning and maintenance work for the year ahead, cleverly holding off on booking too many volunteer groups in until the worst of the weather has passed. Or at least, that's the theory. You can never be too sure of anything with the British (and especially Cumbrian) weather and so the first day of our first working holiday of the year - hedgelaying - coincided with the heaviest snowfall of the winter.


Normally, bad weather means we can't get a car up the Basecamp track. This time though, we couldn't even get to the track and had a 2 1/2 mile walk in.  Most of the working holiday participants had made it as they came the day before, but we didn't get any work done this day. You try laying a hedge when it's buried in snow .....
The log pile under construction.
 

So this first day set the scene for a varied week. We hire a minibus for our working holidays to use to get to the work site, but it didn't leave Basecamp grounds all week. We had to abandon the hedge we were planning to work on and change to one closer by as we were ferrying everyone back and forth to the work site in our own 4x4. This worked well until the Thursday when freezing rain meant even that couldn't get out and our amazingly game group spent the day scraping ice off of the track and building a log pile.
The group with their completed stretch.
But despite all this adversity, we got to site for four good days hedgelaying and the group did a splendid job with everyone declaring they'd had a great week. Just goes to show that with a bit of team spirit and good humour (and, admittedly, a lot of cakes) you don't need things to go exactly to plan to have a good time!







post and photos by Rob

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