90 hours

small change said:

90 volunteer hours, that is.
The sky looked gloomy and it was sprinkling. Not good for a clean up day.
Things didn't look good when we had the wrong key and had to wake the
caretaker to unlock the gate for us. Then, Mr. Adventure rigged the magic
tarp ( if you rig the tarp it won't rain....) and we waited for folks. The
cloud cover broke up and then
24 hard working souls showed up to clean up. 15 or so truckloads of [censored]
later(not literal thank god) our pile looked like this:
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/cleanup/slides/IMG_2503.jpg

What are you bulding trails on, the city dump? Wow, that's a lot of
garbage. I can't wait until they start building the Olympic course at
the Aurther Kill in Staten Island. That should be an experience.

Quoted message said:

I wish I could write a real inspired report but I'm just happy it's over.
The shops donated an amazing quantity of really excellent stuff: floor
pumps, tires, jerseys, tools... well worth waiting until the end.

My hats off to the crew, you guys were awesome.

And why am I not surprised that some people are oblivious, whether it's an
XC doing laps right though the sign in area, or other riders sessioning,
"yeah man that's cool" but do they offer to help? Of course not. No schwag
for them.

Always! Then they use the terms like... "Hey, I'll test that for you
right now". "Oh, whens your next TM, and I'll make sure I'm there".

Quoted message said:

Here's more pics.
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/cleanup/index.html

Now that it's clean, start building!

Good job, Penny!

--
o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-o
www.schnauzers.ws

small change said:

90 volunteer hours, that is.
The sky looked gloomy and it was sprinkling. Not good for a clean up day.
Things didn't look good when we had the wrong key and had to wake the
caretaker to unlock the gate for us. Then, Mr. Adventure rigged the magic
tarp ( if you rig the tarp it won't rain....) and we waited for folks. The
cloud cover broke up and then
24 hard working souls showed up to clean up. 15 or so truckloads of [censored]
later(not literal thank god) our pile looked like this:
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/cleanup/slides/IMG_2503.jpg

I wish I could write a real inspired report but I'm just happy it's over.
The shops donated an amazing quantity of really excellent stuff: floor
pumps, tires, jerseys, tools... well worth waiting until the end.

My hats off to the crew, you guys were awesome.

And why am I not surprised that some people are oblivious, whether it's an
XC doing laps right though the sign in area, or other riders sessioning,
"yeah man that's cool" but do they offer to help? Of course not. No schwag
for them.

Here's more pics.
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/cleanup/index.html

Penny

Dang, I can't believe the amount (and type) of trash you guys cleaned
up.... Great job!

It really pisses me off to see how disrespectful people are with
nature/public land. Maybe I shouldn't be too surprised; After 17 years
of surfing, I saw (and tasted) all kinds of [censored] that we dump on our
beaches and in the ocean.
--
Slack

Ride-A-Lot' 'mitchelnospam said:

small change said:

90 volunteer hours, that is.
The sky looked gloomy and it was sprinkling. Not good for a clean
up day. Things didn't look good when we had the wrong key and had to
wake the caretaker to unlock the gate for us. Then, Mr. Adventure
rigged the magic tarp ( if you rig the tarp it won't rain....) and
we waited for folks. The cloud cover broke up and then
24 hard working souls showed up to clean up. 15 or so truckloads of
[censored] later(not literal thank god) our pile looked like this:
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/cleanup/slides/IMG_2503.jpg

What are you bulding trails on, the city dump? Wow, that's a lot of
garbage. I can't wait until they start building the Olympic course at
the Aurther Kill in Staten Island. That should be an experience.

Nope, just the first clean up this park has seen in ?? years. There was a
huge are of old, old dumpage with lots of really rotten rusty stuff. You
couldnt' really see it until you got close because it blended in woth the
forest.

Some of what we did was get rid of lots of old rotten
lumber..."inappropriate building materials". Busted up picnic tables,
etc.This is an area where if people try hard enough they can get in and dump
stuff. The classic scenario of one gate on the back side that several owners
have a key to, key gets copied etc etc. I'm just releived we didn't find any
meth dumps, that would have NOT surprised me..

anyway, hats off to the crew: they did an awesome job.

penny

<small change

anyway, hats off to the crew: they did an awesome job.

penny>

Great stuff!
It used to amaze me how many riders would pass and mumble good job as we worked the trails...
The president of our club likes to jump in front of them with a shovel and ask if they wouldn't mind spending 15 minutes... I am waiting for the day he gets runned over ;-P
It actually works sometimes though

You have made some happy trials!!!

Jimbo(san)

Twenty four is a better number than the average GJ trail work day.
Well done.

JD