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| Eco-Clean Up II |
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| by Scott Legal |
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| The Eco-Clean Up group at the trailhead
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If you’ve ever wanted to do something for others and for the environment, but
didn’t quite know what to do or where to begin, well geocaching can help you out
of your dilemma. TRUROKR hosted the second annual eco-cleanup event, Eco-cleanup
2, on January 24, 2004. The event took place on a hill in northwest Newbury Park.
The turnout was large and the place got a good makeover. In the end a pickup truck
bed was filled to overflowing with bags of cans, bottles, trash and wrecked car
parts. There were even parts of an old port-a-potty scattered about that were hauled
off to the dump.
As geocachers, many of us head off into the hills looking for caches, only to find
an area that has been blighted by thoughtless people that have a disregard for the
area by leaving their trash scattered about. Many of us bring trash bags with us
on hikes and pick up these discards while we’re out caching. Unfortunately, some
areas are too big a job for a few cachers to cleanup. TRUROKR has been a champion
of cleaning up other peoples trash for a long time on our local trails and brought
the best of two causes together, cleaning up and geocaching. So you get to log a
find and do the area a lot of good. There were also three caches on the hill for
many to find. Additionally, Gordon the Agourcharger set up special caches just for
the event.
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| Trurokr at the Eco-Clean Up
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The day started off gray with a good chance of rain. The rain never materialized
and the day became sunny and warm. The event had a much larger draw than the original
Eco-Cleanup and was attended by, aerospacecase, agouracharger, Baby Sparkle, Borgt,
campyc, ecochic, EMC of Northridge, CA, Faveral, fireball1, Gamekeeper, Jongleur,
Letmethink, Mountain Cat, n6mqm, narlsharls, Pain and Panic, slegal, stampsalot87,
Team Dakiba, thatmakesmehppy, The Grim Cachers, TRUROKR, upsguy, willithin and
WM6P.
As has been proven at the many Conejo Cachers pizza events, geocachers know how
to eat pizza and drink beer. After the clean up event was complete, most of us headed
to Lamppost Pizza to partake in the spoils of a job well done.
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