The generous gift of a large number of old sleepers from Turnberry Golf Course, together with a mild early winter, has allowed our Pathminder Squad to push ahead with an ambitious maintenance and improvement programme. Having recently completed vital dune protection work at Pow Burn, Prestwick, we are now well advanced with step reconstruction on the upper part of the Fisherton Gully; and hope to start to build 20-25 new steps up the slippery slopes of Smugglers Brae, Dunure, early in the New Year. With “Work in Progress” we would ask walkers to take extra care when negotiating these areas. Any new Pathminder volunteers very welcome!