Date: Tuesday 27th May 2008

The Alp away Day

The Alp is an extraordinary feature.  It stands as a monument to Newham's past and marks the transition from an industrial landscape to one of leisure.

The once busy ski slope is abandoned, as if a particularly localised and virulent episode of global warming has ravaged the snows and revealed the underlying landscape.

At the foot of the Alp stands a retail park with the most cavernous of Woolworths.  The amenities of retail and leisure are situated in a landscape almost entirely constructed from ruins and waste.  No trees are older than a decade and there is a pervading sense of a shallow, equalising surface that has obliterated and residual natural landforms.

There is an exaggerated sense of shared space, but not with whom this space is to be shared.

The urban theorist  Katherine Schonfield talked of public space as the lived experience of democracy where one encounters the unexpected pleasure of what it is to be a citizen.  But here is there not also a desire for another kind of experience, an experience where the pleasure is possessively singular and is the antithesis of inclusive citizenship?

It is perhaps less of a pleasure and more of a thrill, characterized by the creeping invasion of buddleia and odd shoes, of rosebay willow herb and burst suitcases, of spaces resonant with what was here and who has gone and what shall be here.  

The history of the time immediately prior to our own is the most tantalizing, it seems so close it appears only carelessness that we didn't experience it ourselves, we are incredulous that we weren't there. A temporary reprieve is found in silent libraries where journeys through landscapes of microfiche and archive boxes retrieve memories we never had .  But even here things run to seed, the feral interlopers of obsolescence creeping over the facts as much as buddleia and willow herb.  Paper as delicate as dusk inked out by a hand impenetrable to anyone of my generation, an index with promise of a reference to the subject reveals its source as deleted.

Obsolescence and the loss of original intentions render this a lost land, only those territories reclaimed by transport infrastructure or shopping have the ignorable quality of the familiar but the rest, the prohibited territory of the the Alp, remains a fabulous ruin, a feral wilderness where a path, made by no more than the feet that have trod it, is more than a means to the end, it is the thrill of a journey- real and psychological.

muf will explore the Alp as a typology, as a feral place that is unmediated,a place that is outside predetermined boundaries and is therefore by definition, marginal, a place that is at the edge of how we live.  The investigation will identify other explorers and inhabitants and with them will devise instruments and calibrations to measure the value of this landscape for both human and non-human activity and occupation.  This barometer of value will inform proposals for permanent interventions that meaningfully magnify those qualities specific to this place.

There will be three phases of muf's residency at the Alp.

The first will be for three weeks in a "laboratory" situated in the Beckton Retail Park car park off Alpine Way. The laboratory will methodically map the characteristics, the flora, fauna and activity of the Alp and its northern lowland of the Greenway, a semi wild corridor that runs from the River Thames to the east and to the Olympic park in the west, two landscapes with an underlying heart of waste.  The mapping will generate a new taxonomy of imagined and real species.  Exhibition specimens will be created from the detritus, natural and man made, collected from the Alp and surrounding landscapes.  The specific character of these landscapes and their value will be overlaid on the existing Design for London Green Grid, to bring an accuracy to definition to this aspirational but dispassionate mapping of potential and existing parks.

The second phase will be a "museum" similarly situated in the retail park.  The museum will be open to the public and will exhibit the laboratory findings.  There will be a participative program of workshops to enable further explorations with local people and in turn these findings will become part of the museum collection and will be exhibited.

The third stage will be a series of temporary installations and events to test the accuracy of proposals as snap shots of the future.  The invited and incidental audience will be both viewer and participant and their critical feedback will further refine the proposal for the permanent restoration of the Alp as a destination on the Greenway and as an inhabitable icon.

Date: Monday 12.05.08

Time: 08.30-17.00

Weather: brilliant sunshine, blue skies with a scattering of cloud

Methodology: 

host a lunchtime barbecue on the alp for 15 invited scaffolders from the neighbouring yard.

Tools used:

barbecue griddle

rocks

charcoal

fire starters 

15 plastic chairs

potatoe salad

vegetable kebabs

lamb chops

sausages

pickled onions

strawberries

assorted fizzy drinks

orange juice

table cloth

glasses

plastic cutlery

napkins

table cloths

6 x trestles

2 x sheets of timber

Samples to laboratory: 

none taken

Human occupation off alp site:

none recorded

Human occupation on alp site:

10.15 two schoolboys in white t-shirts and school uniform ascend from amphitheatre to viewing platform

10.45 two schoolboys descend from summit, looking at us on the concrete plateau, play around by the plateau for about ten minutes walking forwards and backwards and then descend to den area

10.50 male working out on summit, lunges, stretching and sprinting

13.00 13 scaffolders ascend the alp from the south gap in the fence to join us for lunch, leave at 14.00

14.10 solitary school girl sat on wooden beam looking out towards the A13 clutching schoolbag

14.35 four older teenage girls at summit with shopping bags, chatting and giggling

15.00 solitary teenage boy (15) at viewing platform, hanging out

16.00 two women at summit, early twenties looking at view to the north

Non human occupation on site: 

crows at summit

Non human occupation off site:

none recorded

Ambient sounds: 

comedy hgv horn (13.00)

reversing beeping

birdsong

police sirens

Ambient smells: 

sewage

barbecue

Remarks:

learn from the scaffolders that the comedy hgv horn is actually the benji food van on it's rounds around the industrial park. many of the scaffolders have grown up in and around Beckton and remember visiting the alp previously, either to go to the nightclub and bar that used to be at the base, to scramble bikes on homemade dirt tracks, to sledge trays down or to visit the ski slopes.   They are all perfectly content chatting amongst themselves and with us, eating, drinking and taking in the views.

Occupation images:

Inventory images:

none taken

Samples to laboratory images:

none taken

Date: Thursday 08.05.08

Time: 10.30-17.30

Weather: brilliant sunshine, blue skies

Methodology: 

work on samples in laboratory, purchase materials from local charity shops in east ham

Tools used:

none recorded

Samples to laboratory: 

4 x top trump cards

Human occupation off alp site:

10.30 pass over 50's reading group cowboy whizzing across the car park on his mobility scooter "hello girl"

10.45 travis perkins wood delivery to portakabin

Human occupation on alp site:

12.10 two boys, 15/16 leave summit, one runs down south face, past amphitheatre to exit via south gap, other exits via hole in west fence.  they meet each other laughing on pavement outside retail park.

12.50 meet young boy (14) at south-east base, say hello, he climbs up to den area meets another boy there, they hang out removing debris from roof and side of den until 13.40 when they climb to the viewing platform.

13.25 three women at summit all white t-shirts and leggings, working out/dancing

14.25 three girls in den area (13/14) wave at me photographing them from the portakabin. Still there when I return from B & Q at 15.30

15.40 a lone male stood at concrete plateau, looks smartly dressed, ascends to summit

15.45 three girls at den wave up at some other boys at platform (altogether approx 11/12) spend the next hour exploring the site, running up the steep bank to the viewing platform to the summit.  leave via the gap in the south fence at approx 16.30

Non human occupation on site: 

crows at summit

white butterflies

black and orange butterflies

birds stuck flying against the wind above viewing platform

Non human occupation off site:

none recorded

Ambient sounds: 

HGV lunch bell 13.10

excessive industrial noise

clanging

traffic

lots of ice cream van chimes

bird song

Ambient smells: 

sewage

Remarks:

travis perkins delivery driver comments "quite a refined smell around here"

observe three nerdy looking men and women lurking in the bushes on the greenway with clipboards and cameras.  appear to be conducting some sort of biodiversity study.

pass three early twenties males wearing high vis jackets under the bridge next to the greenway and the north face of the alp, I ask if they are the refuse collectors that I am waiting for to which they laugh and say no, notice at this point they are all smoking.

Occupation images:

Inventory images:

none taken

Samples to laboratory images:

none taken

Date: Friday 02.05.08

Time: 09.45-12.00

Weather: heavy rain showers, cloudy, very cold

Methodology: 

work on samples in laboratory

filming around wider area

Tools used:

video camera

Samples to laboratory: 

none taken

Human occupation off alp site:

none recorded

Human occupation on alp site:

10.00 group of five or six teenage boys and girls congregate at viewing platform and take photographs of each other with mobile phones.  leave at 11.45 

Non human occupation on site: 

none recorded

Non human occupation off site:

none recorded

Ambient sounds: 

scaffold clanging

reversing beeping

birdsong

police sirens

Ambient smells: 

sewage

Remarks:

Occupation images:

Inventory images:

none taken

Samples to laboratory images:

none taken

Date: Tuesday 29.04.08

Time: 09.20-17.45

Weather: heavy rain showers, intermittent sunshine, cloudy

Methodology: 

present project progress to over 50's reading group and gather oral history.  

make contact with scaffolding company.

document new growth on site

document found objects in laboratory for inventory, work on samples

Tools used:

camera

Samples to laboratory: 

how our solar system works notes

Human occupation off alp site:

none recorded

Human occupation on alp site:

16.45 2 x older teenagers pose and take pictures at the summit, lots of thumbs ups and arms extended out to the side.  exit via the west gap at 17.10

Non human occupation on site: 

crows at summit

Non human occupation off site:

cat on the retail park

Ambient sounds: 

comedy hgv horn (13.00)

reversing beeping

lots of birdsong

police sirens

Ambient smells: 

sewage

burning

Remarks:

amazed at how lush the alp is looking with all of spring's new growth. very dense weed covering has formed.  some of the makeshift entrances have been repaired, and a tree has been cut down next to the wooden platform and repositioned as a canopy over the gap.

Occupation images:

Inventory images:

none taken

Samples to laboratory images:

none taken

Date: Saturday 26.04.08

Time: 12.30-16.00

Weather: very sunny

Methodology: 

cooked sausages on fire fuelled by alp waste.

general observations, supplied J____ and  T___ T___ with imitation guns for play.

Tools used:

none recorded

Samples to laboratory: 

none recorded

Human occupation off alp site:

none recorded

Human occupation on alp site:

14.20 two boys making den south of the amphitheatre, drag planks and construct.

14.25 a group of 3/4 teenage boys (12/13) gather on viewing platform, two have bicycles

14.40 two women in religious dress and two men stand at summit and observe view towards the south west

14.40 an early 30's male ascends summit, form the viewing platform pushing a bicycle, descends ten minutes after.

15.00 two women, early 30's look out from summit towards the south west

15.20 two boys, 13/14 ascend from viewing platform with bikes to summit and ride up and down the south face.

15.30 two asian women, one male, two young boys and a baby enter site through the gap in the fence to the west and ascend to the summit, where they sit and remain for about an hour.  boys explore site, down by viewing platform.

Non human occupation on site: 

magpies

birds on cross

Ambient sounds: 

ice cream van

play

A13

Ambient smells: 

sausages

sewage

Remarks:

much more activity at the weekend than recorded in the week, groups arriving together and spending extended periods of time either relaxing or exploring.

Occupation images:

Inventory images:

none taken

Samples to laboratory images:

none taken

Date: Tuesday 15.04.08

Time: 10.30-18.20

Weather: very sunny, heavy cloud covering, intermittent showers

Methodology: 

work on inventory data in the laboratory .

dye fabrics with made pigments. 

Tools used:

none recorded

Samples to laboratory: 

none recorded

Human occupation off alp site:

none recorded

Human occupation on alp site:

15.00 2 x mid 20's photography types. walk from amphitheatre, scaling up to platform, towards summit, laughing, kissing and photographing on the way.  leave at 16.15pm

Non human occupation on site: 

pigeons at base

Ambient sounds: 

empty lorry's 

distant sound of generator

bicycle bell

comedy hgv horn (13.00)

reversing beeping

13.40 helicopter hovering for at least ten minutes

police sirens

ice cream van

Ambient smells: 

sewage

Remarks:

very quiet again.  schoolchildren's absence is very noticeable with easter holidays

Occupation images:

Inventory images:

none taken

Samples to laboratory images:

none taken

Date: Thursday 10.04.08

Time: 09.15-16.35

Weather: sunny spells, warm but blustery, intermittent showers

Methodology: 

debrief and project review

laid out rubbish collected from the north base of alp, under the footbridge on 02.04.08 on the greenway.

Inventory as follows:

58 x lager cans

26 x assorted soft drink cans

6 x energy drink cans

13 x asda smart price food cans

1 x de-icer can

1 x deodorant can

1 x paint can

9 x glass beer bottles

2 x glass alcopop bottles

1 x glass wine bottle (broken)

1 x glass coca-cola bottle

1 x glass milk bottle

4 x plastic cider bottles

8 x assorted soft drink plastic bottles

2 x energy drink plastic bottle

11 x water bottles

7 x milk drink plastic bottles

2 x cleaning product plastic bottles

33 x cups

6 x assorted cigarette packets

2 x empty cement bags

1 x plastic jerry can

1 x mixing bucket

1 x empty grout tub

1 x empty flexible filler tube

1 x wellington boot

1 x hard hat

3 x gloves

3 x trousers

1 x sweatshirt

5 x "the private collection" pornographic subscription

1 x perverted stories number 24 DVD

4 x broken pieces of signage

1 x paintbrush

1 x toothbrush

1 x washbag

1 x body spray

1 x tablet packet

1 x christmas wreath remnants

1 x tube tin foil

3 x assorted plastic tubes

1 x toy car

1 x puncture repair kit

1 x bike light

1 x plastic fork

3 x assorted plastic pieces

1 x burnt sketch book

1 x broken camera

1 x mini dv tape strip

1 x abdominal trainer machine section

1 x half piece of duvet

1 x carpet square

1 x window frame

1 x bin lid

Tools used:

bin bags

Samples to laboratory: 

1 x pot of blue matter

2 x "the private collection" pornographic subscription 

1 x perverted stories number 24 DVD

1 x ian drury and the blockheads CD live (by south base) track listing as follows:

01 hit me with your rhythm stick.m4a

02 what a waste.m4a

03 reasons to be cheerful part 3.m4a

04 clever trevor.m4a

05 billericay dickie.m4a

06 sweet gene vincent.m4a

07 wake up and make love ith me.m4a

08 k3-smoking alon.m4a

09 hoxton oaf-jasmine.m4a

10 finger snip-110.m4a

11 gasoline- church.m4a

12 sister beck- desperation.m4a

13 lola- mother of god.m4a

14 the voodoos-sanctify.m4a

15 sancake- ghost of you.m4a

Human occupation off alp site:

12.45 jake the dog and owner from 06.03.08 walking from east to west along the greenway, engage in conversation "why are  you collecting rubbish, they'll only put it all back in". I ask if they walk here often, and he says every day, but not going up the alp today as jake has worn him out, say goodbye and carry on.

13.35 cyclist travelling from west to east along greenway

13.40 a group of fourteen schoolchildren and their teacher cycle in high-vis vests from west to east

13.40 young man who photographed us on 02.04.08 walking from west to east along greenway, recognises me and asks "how's the project going", promise to send him photograph taken of him and his friend

13.50 boy from scaffolding yard and older man walk past holding two scaffolding planks, walk west along the greenway chatting to each other. they say hello.

13.55 same cyclist observed at 13.35 cycling from east to west along greenway

14.00 boy from scaffolding yard walks from west back towards yard with a bag of fizzy drinks "he wanted to buy us all something to say thanks for carrying the two planks home". He reminds us to give him a shout later when we need a hand.

14.55 tiger the dog and owner on footbridge to the north of alp.

15.10 same boy observed at 13.40 and 02.04.08 walks across footbridge to walk up to the alp summit. offers assistance, which is accepted however he is not really dressed for pulling a rubbish bin out of woodland, he stays for about ten minutes and then carries on.

Human occupation on alp site:

14.20 a solitary man (early 30's) at summit looking eastwards, is still present when we depart at 14.45

14.25 a father and two children (one teenage girl, one younger boy) enter the alp via the viewing platform and walk towards the summit, they engage with the solitary man at the summit, pointing out various sites and landmarks

14.35 a solitary male cycles across summit to exit via viewing platform, behind the family observed at 14.25

15.30 three girls at summit

15.50 a solitary male with his bicycle at the summit

Non human occupation on site: 

2 x butterflies at north base on abandoned wooden steps

4 x magpies 

Ambient sounds: 

fork lift truck from scaffolding yard

scaffold clattering

birdsong

Ambient smells: 

very strong sewage from greenway

Remarks:

contact council to report flytipping and arrange collection of all rubbish we have collected, try to remove an industrial metal rubbish bin out of the woodland to the north of alp, enter neighbouring scaffolding yard and ask some of the workers for some help, one obliges but we are unable to lift it

we return later with a saw to remove some branches and empty the bin, when a man approaches with his dog, tiger. "what you need is a good saw", we know but we don't have one, to which he replies "would you like to borrow mine" and pulls one out of his backpack. tiger is walked for miles every day,as he is a rescue dog who was never taken out of the house, and they take lunch and a gas stove to prepare lunch wherever they may be, thus the serrated saw/knife for sausages and black puddings en-route. 

observe samples left by den area, statue has been smashed to pieces, search for a piece of the face or something recognisable unsuccessfully. 

Occupation images:

Inventory images:

Samples to laboratory images:

none taken

Found audio:

Date: Monday 07.04.08

Time: 10.20-17.25

Weather: sunny spells, blustery, showers after 15.00

Methodology: 

work on samples in the laboratory  and document them.

remove sample botanical specimens for pressing from alp. 

Tools used:

specimen bag

trowel

Samples to laboratory: 

1 x bunch of grass 

25 x dandelions

6 x burdock leaves

2 x ash flower heads

2 x red berry samples

Human occupation off alp site:

none recorded

Human occupation on alp site:

13.30 two older teenage boys and one teenage girl at the summit, chatting and looking at the view, remain at summit for approximately 40 minutes and then exit via the ramp

16.00 a father and son approach the summit from the viewing platform, father has a can of lager, boy screams and giggles, jumps up and down "wow, this is so cool, look at that, look at that" continues in amazement, they notice me as I appear from below collecting samples, boy is still proclaiming how amazing everything is whilst father walks off towards the viewing platform.

16.55 two women power walking up and down from south west to north west, whilst chatting and laughing, still walking when I depart at 17.25

Non human occupation on site: 

3 x crows circling at southern base

2 x magpies sat on metal cross at summit

Ambient sounds: 

crows

birdsong

Ambient smells: 

sewage

Remarks:

relatively quiet,  not much after school occupation, even with the good weather.

Occupation images:

Inventory images:

none taken

Samples to laboratory images:

none taken

Date: Thursday 03.04.08

Time: 10.30-15.20

Weather: mild, clear with sunny spells

Methodology: 

completed rubbish inventory of rubbish collected from summit yesterday as follows: 

13 x lager cans

1 x cider can

1 x soft drink can

1 x energy drink can

2 x energy drink plastic bottles

2 x fizzy drink plastic bottles

1 x whisky presentation tin

2 x plastic cups

2 x cigarette packets

1 x rizla packet

1 x train ticket used as roach material

also clear new rubbish from summit that has appeared since yesterday.  Inventory as follows:

1 x lager can

2 x energy drink plastic bottle

1 x pringles tube

attach sheets of fabric to the alp to see if they can be observed from a distance.

photograph the alp from various other viewpoints.

Tools used:

none recorded

Samples to laboratory: 

none recorded

Human occupation off alp site:

none recorded

Human occupation on alp site:

10.30 a courting couple, move from the viewing platform, to the summit before settling on the south face next to a bush.  leave at approximately 12.20

11.30 a lone woman with a dog on a lead walks up to the summit

13.30 a lone man on summit observed from building 1000 at the royal albert docks.

Non human occupation on site: 

none recorded

Ambient sounds: 

birdsong

Ambient smells: 

rain

Remarks:

Occupation images:

Inventory images:

Samples to laboratory images:

none taken

Date: Wednesday 02.04.08

Time: 09.05-17.50

Weather: overcast, intermittent showers and sunny spells

Methodology: 

collect rubbish from west face and base of the north face under bridge. 

clear newly collected rubbish from summit that has accumulated since previous collection.

layout rubbish from the west face for documenting and complete inventory as follows:

243 x lager cans

25 x cider cans

1 x bitter can

1 x alcopop can

10 x energy drink cans

20 x fizzy drink cans

1 x paint can

14 x assorted fizzy drink bottles

15 x assorted water plastic bottles

5 x energy drink plastic bottles

2 x glass wine bottles

15 x glass beer bottles

2 x glass soft drink bottles

1 x  glass whisky bottle

2 x broken glass bottle necks

11 x orange juice cartons

9 x plastic cups

1 x broken plastic forks

18 x cigarette packets

5 x cigarette lighters

11 x firework remains

20 x assorted bottle tops

3 x corks

1 x knife

1 x pen

1 x battery

1 x shell

7 x bags of rubbish removed from site.

Tools used:

none recorded

Samples to laboratory: 

1 x shell

20 x assorted bottle tops

1 x knife

1 x minnie mouse doll in kimono

Human occupation off alp site:

10.05 same incredibly fashionable out of place man observed previously walking across the pavement to south of alp and down the road to the east into the industrial park.

Human occupation on alp site:

10.30 solitary male at summit

11.30 three boys in school uniform jumping and lurking under viewing platform

14.20 two girls, late teens at summit, not doing much

15.00 three teenage boys approach from the south and appear next to concrete plateau where we are carrying out inventory, they hesitate and I usher them forward.  one is boy from 19th february from kingsford school, he asks if we found k____ u_____ to return memory stick, i said we did and they carry on to the top

15.10 two girls pop up to walk via concrete plateau, see us and veer off to walk up the north path to the summit

15.30 boy from 15.00 comes back to ask if they will get in to trouble being there, he is not sure if they are allowed to be there, to which I say I am not sure if any of us are supposed to be there.  there shouldn't be any problem as long as you don't do anything wrong we continue.  he says thankyou and carries on.

16.oo three boys, late teens, enter via viewing platform, one walks to top and surveys whilst the other survey around the viewing platform.  they then disappear and reappear five minutes later with mountain bikes. process to the summit and blast down the path towards the platform three times, notice me taking their photograph and then exit hastily

16.45 two males, early  twenties at summit laughing and talking, watching us laying out rubbish, I ask to photograph to which they oblige and then they take our photograph in return. 

Non human occupation on site: 

a huge amount of snails

bumblebees

Ambient sounds: 

comedy hgv horn

clanging

reverse sound

Ambient smells: 

burning from business park

Remarks:

engage in conversation with the two early twenties males before we leave the site and ask them to bluetooth me the photograph that they took (see above)  they inform me that they had heard about the artists working on the alp and had noticed it was looking "nicer" and cleaner.  seemed genuinely interested in the activity, exchanged email addresses to forward information.

strange mutant like fungi growing at the base of north summit.

Occupation images:

Inventory images:

Samples to laboratory images:

none taken

Date: Tuesday 01.04.08

Time: 09.35-17.45

Weather: brilliant sunshine, very windy

Methodology: 

visit the local undertaker

work on samples in the laboratory  

Tools used:

none recorded

Samples to laboratory: 

none recorded

Human occupation off alp site:

none recorded

Human occupation on alp site:

13.25 two teenage boys in school uniform sat on viewing platform, kicking, dangling off handrail, climbing around

13.55 same two boys observed at 13.25 stride towards the summit and then walk straight back to the viewing platform, one jumps through gap in handrail and re enters through the gap in the platform.  they exit via the slope and out of the south gap

15.45 solitary male looking down towards car park drinking a can of beer on the viewing platform

16.30 five young boys (11-13) enter via viewing platform with bikes.  they notice and say look at that girl, i wave they wave back and laugh. proceed to summit and stop, appearing to discuss something. disappear to north.

16.40 reappear amidst screams and shouts, bmxing down the north face path, commune at the bottom and laugh, approach me by the den site to ask what i'm doing.  i ask if they'll let me photograph them doing it again to which they oblige. they exit, with me via the south entrance at 17.35

17.20 one girl, one boy appear at summit (16/17) and look down at bmx boys.

Non human occupation on site: 

2 x bumblebees

3 x magpies

Ambient sounds: 

laughing

shouting

birdsong

Ambient smells: 

sewage

Remarks:

the red arrows fly over just before one, an almighty racket, just catch them as they turn on the smoke signals, going from left to right across the south of the retail park site towards canary wharf.

the group of bmx boys tell me how much they enjoy visiting the alp, they spend at least two hours going up and down. they ask me to email them the images, and promise to say hello next time I see them  very curious about what I am doing and what artists do in general.

the makeshift den has either been dismantled or ravaged by the wind and rain.

Occupation images:

Inventory images:

none taken

Samples to laboratory images:

none taken

Date: Friday 28.03.08

Time: 09.45-17.20

Weather: very windy, heavy rain from 11.30 until 15.00, intermittent showers and sunny periods after.

Methodology: 

observed samples that had been left on the alp.

continued work on samples in laboratory. 

Tools used:

none recorded

Samples to laboratory: 

none recorded

Human occupation off alp site:

10.05 same incredibly fashionable out of place man observed previously walking across the pavement to south of alp and down the road to the east into the industrial park.

Human occupation on alp site:

none recorded

Non human occupation on site: 

none recorded

Ambient sounds: 

wind howling

rain lashing the portacabin

14.30 a car alarm sounds for about 40 minutes

tin can rolling around car park

"all night long" by Lionel Richie playing in Industrial yard, and the beeping of lorry reversing in time

Ambient smells: 

rain

Remarks:

very surprised that there is absolutely no human occupation on site, friday is normally quite busy after school, but the heavy rain appears to have called off play.

no vandalism to samples that had been left on the alp previously, just wind lashed.

Occupation images:

none taken

Inventory images:

none taken

Samples to laboratory images:

none taken