Something a bit different today. I'm helping a group work towards getting their John Muir Award. We are going to be doing a series of conservation sessions over the winter at Nant y Glyn Forest School, which is hidden up on the hillside above Colwyn Heights. To achieve the award, we have to 'Discover, Explore, Conserve and Share' an area of wild space. We spent the morning exploring and discovering and getting introduced to Colin the sheep.
And his friend, the frisky Ram...
After exploring the site and getting acquainted with the tasks that needed to be done, we had an energetic day clearing brambles and putting up a new 'Brash Hedge'.
The colours in the woodland are looking good at the moment and with the recent winds, there are drifts of leaves to kick through.
In the evening, I met with another group who I'm taking up to Scotland in a few weeks. It was exciting to be looking through winter photos, fixing crampons to boots and studying the maps. We finished up just after 8pm all amped up for winter! Will there be snow though?.... I left them to watch the Rab film about Scotland, to get a taste of what may lay ahead for them!...
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