CITO 2008: photos photos photos

[+MissJenn]

Once again, I invite those who have participated in CITO events to post just 1 (or maybe 2) representative photos for the community to see.

Show off your best shot here!

Give us the cache name or waypoint # ... and a link to it, please. That way we can see all the rest of the CITO photos in the respective galleries.

[+deadbird]

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[magellan315]

Whoo, hoo. First to post.

 

Spring Fling

In two hours with 10 people we filled 25 bags of trash, removed various car parts, and the grossest thing I have found so far a dead chicken in a box. I assume someone was practicing Santeria, fortunately its still cold outside so it didn't smell much.

 

This was a small area in a heavily used park, you could see the difference. One of the girls who came to help used to play here when she was younger.

 

The pictures show just one of the sections we cleaned.

 

An embankment pre-CITO.

 

 

The same embankment post-CITO.

[+Touchstone]

From the recent Pinnacles National Monument VIP/CITO Weekend

 

 

This was actually only about half our crew. There was another group doing (not to get technical or anything) "non native plant eradication"

 

 

Besides the usual fun around the campfire in the evenings, there was also the added bonus of some sitings of the endangered California Condor

Edited March 22, 2008 by Touchstone

[+SKILLET]

Spring adopt a highway CITO

 

59 bags of trash on a very windy desert day with 42 Cachers doing the work.

 

 

San Diego Geocachers rock

 

 

more photos can be found here at San Diego Geocachers.org Sorry I couldn't get the link to work?

Edited April 12, 2008 by SKILLET

[+SKILLET]

Spring adopt a highway CITO

 

59 bags of trash on a very windy desert day with 42 Cachers doing the work.

 

 

San Diego Geocachers rock

 

 

more photos can be found here at San Diego Geocachers.org Sorry I couldn't get the link to work?

 

 

Got a different link to work try this Ok I tried it and it works. there are other photos of the CITO on this too. Check them out. We also had a Desert Campout to go along with the CITO. Photo's of that are there too.

Edited April 14, 2008 by SKILLET

[+-cheeto-]

GC19PTZ - Let's Cleanup Jones Park - Appleton CITO 2008 - April 19th

 

Appleton, WI CITO Event - 29 cachers cleaned up a very Urban area park in the downtown area. Ravine type park offering terrain levels between 1 and 4 to cleanup.

 

This was the 2nd annual Appleton CITO event (first time for hosting any geocaching event for me!) this year and one thing done differently is this year we also separated recyclable materials to be recycled. Below is a picture of 2/3 of the total attendance, the haul, and a picture of the amount of recyclables separated out during the event.

 

 

 

[+JLAM-D]

19 April

Ottawa, Ontario

Canada

 

We just completed hosting our Second annual Ottawa's Adopt-a-Highway CITO, of the Veterans Memorial highway (Hwy 416) and the Veterans Memorial park. The cache listing is GC16YVZ. We picked up 61 bags of garbage, 10 bags of recycling, 11 tires, 2 shovels, 5 bags of returnable beer wine and spirit bottles/cans.

 

Here is the majority of the group with the haul. Garbage on the left, Recyclables on the right.

 

The gang cleaning the Southern portion of the highway.

 

Sorting the garbage, we recycled all that we could which reduced the amount going to landfill by 15 bags!!

There are more pictures posted on the cache page as well as a link to see more pictures as well.

 

Thanks to all who came out to clean-up the environment as well as the great donations that we were able to secure. A good time was had by all.

 

Cheers,

JLAM-D

Edited April 20, 2008 by JLAM-D

[+frivlas]

Yesterday we attended Earth Day Morning 2008 CITO at Panther Beach in Santa Cruz, Ca.

 

It was cold and windy, but a die hard group of cachers showed up to clean up the beach. So far the only pics there are mine, but hopefully others will post some too.

 

 

[+Team Laxson]

From the Billzjeeps 4th Annual CITO @ Boyd Lake in Colorado:

 

 

 

Edited April 21, 2008 by Team Laxson

[+Team GeoBlast]

 

GC19C0T 2008 Official CITO Event - Hawaii

[+Ladybug Kids]

Anchorage, Alaska, had two CITO Events (2008 Kincaid Park CITO Event and 2008 Spring Kincaid Park CITO – Southside on back to back days over the weekend despite there being an unseasonably high amount of snow still on the ground. The teams still managed to recover dozens of bags of small refuse, an engine block, three tires, and yards and yards of coax cable.

 

From Saturday, April 19, the clean-up team at the end of the day:

There was enough trash to collect, we didn't need an eagle's eye to find it, but this one did a fly by:

From Sunday, April 20, the clean-up team at the end of the day:

FrostG1anT and Team Tex_ak sweep Jodphur Road adjacent to Kincaid Park:

The moose attended, too, but hasn't logged the event yet:

Edited April 22, 2008 by Ladybug Kids

[JASTA 11]

Here's a couple from Town River CITO - On Land and Water:

 

Tires, paint cans, a computer monitor, and a window among other junk pulled out.

 

The team in another canoe pulled out all of this in one trip!

 

There was a lot of trash along the Bay Circuit Trail which runs alongside the river here.

 

When it was all said and done the area looked great! Hopefully it can stay this way for a while. Thanks go out to: Boot Group, Boot Group Three, Gonascar, The4Syms, Marc The Shark 18, Deadhed42, and all the non-cachers who helped make this a great success.

[+Touchstone]

Our Earth Day contribution was a bit different from the usual trash pick up (although we did that as well). The Joshua Tree Springtime CITO/VIP Weekend Bio-Blitz involved going out in the high desert and counting critters for the Park. This helps the National Park Service understand the distribution of various animals in the Park and to manage resources better. We ended up in the seldom visited Southern portion of the Park, with Ranger Kristen helping to identify some of the animals we encountered.

 

 

Edited April 25, 2008 by Touchstone

[+Jennifer&Dean]

I don't think the local cachers are going to let me pick out next year's CITO event.

Wire in the Gulch

 

We must have pulled about a ton of wire and metal off the saddle and surrounding areas. 2 truckloads taken ut on Saturday, and another truckload or two left for removal.

-J

 

My brother at the CITO:

[+MissJenn]

If you cycle through the images in the front banner rotation, you'll notice many CITO photos featured there. And some of those came right from this thread.

[sandiegoland]

 

Long story short, picked up a little trash near a cache site this weekend. I figured I could coax a passing truck to haul them down, but alas, no one happened by while I was there (The blue nylon bag in front is where I normally rig up to haul one trash bag).

 

I slung the extra two "yellow" bags over the gas tank filler throat by their draw-strings. They held down 12 miles of dirt and gravel road. I was impressed with the quality of these $0.80 bags.

[+MissJenn]

Nice! You are uber cool.

[+sagefemme]

I was beginning to wonder how seriously cachers took CITO... I took a tall kitchen trash bag with me to a single cache in an urban park, where cachers had been in recent days/weeks. I stopped TOing when the bag started to tear from the weight of the glass. (I worry about glass on steep hillsides. Lots of evidence that people are sliding, and lots of glass to potentially injure themselves along the way.) I should have taken the camera in too.

 

Do you think I ought to plant a few more trash bags in the cache to plant a seed?

[magellan315]

At the Black Rock Cito we may not have removed tons of trash. But we did have our own personal garbage truck to play with. We cleared out a couple of dump sites besides the one pictured.

 

Our shiny green chariot

 

We had a lot fun playing, " what will it crush".

 

Dump Site before

 

Dump Site After

[+IthacaDoodle]

We recently held our first CITO along the 2.1 mile stretch of rural highway the "EH Geocachers" have adopted here in the Ellis Hollow area of Ithaca, NY.

 

Ithaca Adopt-a-Highway Fall CITO Event

 

We had 18 participants come out on a beautiful fall day and collected 8 bags of trash, 80 cents of returnables, a microwave, TV, and grocery cart. Our haul does not compare favorably to some of the major contributions listed here, but we did find a very appropriate object - a "GEO" hubcab!

 

 

Edited November 10, 2008 by ithacadoodle