The Great Ridgewood View Trash Out!

April 2, 2003

Hi all,

Spurred by the encouragement of local Geocachers (and the 'Trash Out' ethic of the Geocaching community) Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District is sponsoring a clean-up of Ridgewood View Park on May 10th, 2003. I have received numerous questions about all those curious square, metal plates strewn about the wooded area, as well as about the trash all along the numerous dirt trails criss-crossing the woods.

Our goal will be to pick up the trash and encourage neighborhood stewardship of the park. And, if we have enough people there, we will also remove some of the ivy which is climbing the trees and out-competing the native plants. I will be providing all the necessary tools and supplies (garbage bags, loppers, water, bagels) and will have a truck to fill with the garbage we haul out. Please bring heavy (leather) gloves and wear clothing appropriate to the work and our famous Oregon weather.

If you have any questions, please contact me at 503-645-3539 or kspinks@thprd.com.

Thanks and I hope to see all of you there!

Kyle S (THPRD guy)

April 2, 2003

Cool! I'm there.

It might also be a good idea to post this on geocaching.com as an event cache. That way, people that don't read the forums will be there, too.

Are we going to level out the bicycle jumps too?

April 2, 2003

Wow! It's only been about an hour and I've received a couple calls about this clean-up.

We'll be meeting at 9:00 AM the main entrance to Ridgewood View Park at the end of SW Ardenwood Street.

Hope to see y'all there.

Kyle S (THPRD guy)

April 2, 2003

Sounds good to me, Joseph and I will try to be there.

Bob G.

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April 2, 2003

Open so far. Perhaps I can even convince kiddo to help out

My mind not only wanders...

Sometimes it leaves completely...

**Namaste**

April 2, 2003

We have a special interest in various parts of this park and one or both of us will be there if possible.

I've gone to look for myself, if I should return before I get back, please keep me here.

2.8k · April 2, 2003

I plan to help out, and I hope to bring CrashNBurnGirl with me too.

April 3, 2003

I'll try to make it, if work doesn't tell me I need to work that day.

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Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

April 3, 2003

Put us down for a definite maybe. Unfortunately we have a soccer game early that afternoon so our attendance will be a "game day" decision.

April 4, 2003

As always, we'll try to contribute how we can. I inadvertantly started another thread about this. Have we given any thought to making this our local effort to contribut to the Cache In, Trash Out day? We were thinking about ordering the T-Shirts (I'm a sucker for marketing gimmicks) & figured if anyone else wanted them we could save on shipping. The T-shirts are $3 each.

"And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination."

April 4, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Team JOYSON:
We were thinking about ordering the T-Shirts (I'm a sucker for marketing gimmicks) & figured if anyone else wanted them we could save on shipping. The T-shirts are $3 each.

Gofindit and myself are interested in purchasing the T-Shirts. Maybe we can get a list of interested persons at the gathering tonight.

Charlie Trail Duster -

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

April 5, 2003

Cache in, Trash out T-shirts

Ok, I spaced it last night having too much fun talking with everyone. Anyone else want to go in on some of these t-shirts for the clean up? They're $3 each, but we'll be paying more in shipping if we only do 1 at a time. Make a post if you're interested, or send me an e-mail through the site.

Jason of JOYSON

"And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination."

April 5, 2003

Put me down for two, one med and one small. Looks like all the Garmin folks will be have to wear Magellan though.

Bob

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April 5, 2003

put me down for 2 XL's

2.8k · April 5, 2003

I was thinking I'd order a few extras (8-10) and place a card in a cache before the cleanup and the cards could be redeemed at the cleanup for a free shirt.

When going through the ordering process the S/H came to $8.50. When I reduced the order to 1 shirt it was $6.50. I thought it was supposed to be $5 S/H.

I am waiting to order until I know what I am spending.

Jason, you know where I work so we could coordinate the ordering soon.

I used to work with CharlieTD and 1Pilot has done work for a family member (is this a small world or what?) so I think they can be trusted I only met Jeeplife yesterday, but he found and returned a plundered cache of mine! I trust him too.

April 5, 2003

Put me down for two (2) 2XL.

I've gone to look for myself, if I should return before I get back, please keep me here.

April 5, 2003

Put us down for one XL and one XXL shirt. We consider ourselves trustworthy. If you'd like us to send you a check in advance, please let us know.

April 5, 2003

Although I will not be able to attend the cleanup day, I would like one XXL shirt.

-Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.-

April 6, 2003

I've got an e-mail in to the people at Groundspeak. S&H was my biggest concern when we first started looking at this. The other downside is that the site doesn't let you specify different sizes for bulk orders. Hopefully we'll be able to coordinate everything through them directly & avoid any misunderstandings. We'll take a final count here by the end of the week to make sure everyone's had enough time to respond, but also so the shirts have enough time to get here. Thanks for the response so far!

"And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination."

2.8k · April 6, 2003

Jeremy posted a reply to my posting in the CITO thread that he'd look into the shipping - but that basic UPS fees are $5 plus $.50 per pound. So shirts shouldn't end up costing much more than $3.50 if we get 20 or so.

Keep an eye on that t-shirt thread over in CITO

April 7, 2003

We're good for one 2XL tee and one 3XL tee, esp. since they are 100% cotton and will likely shrink a bit. Plus, better too big than too small in our opinion, and how can you lose at that price?

Where is this Ridgewood View Park? At this writing, only 2 of our May weekends are not already booked (mostly with geocaching stuff), and one of those 2 weekends soon will be booked with an out-of-town family birthday celebration (to celebrate several family May birthdays). If by chance May 10th turns out to be our only open weekend, the 2 of us will plan to make an appearance.

Temporarily French Polynesia's most prolific geocachers!

2.8k · April 7, 2003

Check GG&GR's Just Toys (The Phoenix) cache.

It is one of what was at 1 time, a 3-cache park.

April 7, 2003

Put me down of one large. We could have an early (T-Shirt pay up), event cache. Say this weekend, maybe at the IHOP in Beaverton’s back room....

Or I could send you a check.

April 8, 2003

Allright, here's the count that I have so far...

Gofindit L

Charlie Trail Duster L

Team Joyson XL

1Pilot M S

jeeplife XL XL

Grandpa & Grandma XXL XXL

Kiwimonster XL XXL

Quantum Mechanic XXL

Dasein XXL XXXL

PDXMarathonman lots

just post here if there's any changes. Getting together ahead of time to coordinate the exchange of funds would be great. We'll give it through the end of the week to let anyone else post a request, then process the order this weekend.

"And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination."

April 8, 2003

I will be there. In addition, my daughters Girl Scout Troop is always looking for community service projects. I have contacted their leader and she will be announcing it at the next meeting...

I am also trying to figure a way to have a caching activity for them. Any ideas?

People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said,

... but they will always remember how you made them feel.

1.2k · April 8, 2003

Hey Kyle, have you done the work of actually registering a cache event? You don't wanna lose the folks who DON'T read the forums all the time!

ALSO... it would be cool to salt the park with "easter egg" mini-caches as prizes!

Maybe have the "easter egg caches" give clues for a major uber-cache someplace - or something.

Can we bring a barbecue?

-Elana

-Elana (a.k.a. "Sparrowhawk")

April 8, 2003

no offense intended, but I think the focus should stay on the clean up instead of this becoming a caching party. It'd be cool to get together somewhere, or do something afterwards. Those are great ideas for an easter get together though... possibly another event?

"And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination."

2.8k · April 8, 2003

Kyle is putting the page together today.

I emailed him yesterday and he responed this morning.

Also, I am going to order him a T-shirt and amortize the cost in collecting from everyone else

1.2k · April 8, 2003

Originally posted by Team JOYSON:
no offense intended, but I think the focus should stay on the clean up instead of this becoming a caching party. It'd be cool to get together somewhere, or do something afterwards. Those are great ideas for an easter get together though... possibly another event?

This cache event - the big inspiration for everyone, it seems, combined a chili cookoff and party with serious cache-and-trash. They had one heck of a successful event. If they can do it with a party/celebration element added, and they proved it to be good, I don't see why we can't do it that way either.

The party part keeps our spirits up for what is not the most fun task, really... eww... trash city! But it's worth it for the fun aspects and helps us to keep on task that way.

Just IHMO...

-Elana (a.k.a. "Sparrowhawk")

April 8, 2003

It's work! It's not supposed to be fun! <emoticon>

"And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination."

April 8, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Team JOYSON:
It's work! It's not supposed to be fun! <emoticon>

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SAYS WHO??? Where is that written??? If I don't see it in writing I will never believe it...

My mind not only wanders...

Sometimes it leaves completely...

**Namaste**

2.8k · April 9, 2003

OK. I have had a little offline communique with Team Joyson and I am going to be placing the order for T-Shirts (I get a better kick back from the credit card company).

I have a tally that I think is accurate, so if you want to get in on the group order please do so before noon Thursday (4/10/03).

Gofindit had suggested getting together at IHOP so that folks could pay up sooner rather than later. So, if I were there on Sunday morning pounding down Tequila Sunrises starting at 8:30am would I be all alone?

I could stagger the mile and a half home around 10:00am if nobody else shows up (and if S.M.C. gets back online you could grab that cache!)

April 9, 2003

S.M.C. should be back up and running tomorrow. I've modified the log retention device, hopefully this one will work better.

April 9, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by pdxmarathonman:
Gofindit had suggested getting together at IHOP so that folks could pay up sooner rather than later. So, if I were there on Sunday morning pounding down Tequila Sunrises starting at 8:30am would I be all alone?

We certainly won't be there. Weekends are when we catch up on our sleep. We'd be happy to send you a check...

Temporarily French Polynesia's most prolific geocachers!

2.8k · April 10, 2003

I placed the order for the shirts.

The following have orders in as communicated above:

1pilot

jeeplife

GG&GR

Quantum Mechanic

dasein

gofindit

Charlie TD

Team Joyson

Kiwimonster

1 for Kyle S

Some for a cache to be placed soon...

The shipping is almost exactly $0.50 per shirt, so I'll round it to be $0.50. Remember $1 extra for each extra X above size XL.

Anyone who prefers to send me a check please email me and I'll give you my mailing address.

We'll figure out a shirt distribution method (I am sure you don't want to wait until May 10th to get them).

I will be trying to start a group private topic, so check that section to see if it works.

April 11, 2003

Hi all,

Great to see the response! Just this morning I posted an Event Cache, as recommended by the sage amongst you. If you have any suggestions as to improving the page (this is my first posting so I'm learning all this as I go along) send me an email at kspinks@thprd.com and I'll edit the page.

Thanks for all your support and hope to see you there!

Kyle S

April 11, 2003

Page is up!

"And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination."

2.8k · April 12, 2003

quote:
So, if I were there on Sunday morning pounding down Tequila Sunrises starting at 8:30am would I be all alone?

To answer my own question: Very Lonely.

We'll have to figure out a better plan.

Seems that there has been virtually no visiting the forums by the regular NW Oregon crowd in the last week.... ?

April 12, 2003

S.M.C. is back in business, maybe this will help to keep pdxmarathonman from being too lonely in the morning. If he is still planning to be there.

2.8k · April 12, 2003

quote:
If he is still planning to be there

Nah. Unlike dasein though, I'll be awakened by my 3 alarm clocks But I'll be making pancakes at home.

April 12, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by pdxmarathonman:

To answer my own question: Very Lonely.

We'll have to figure out a better plan.

I don't want you to feel uneasy regarding the money issue and I would certainly be glad to mail you a check now if you prefer. An alternative might be to wait until the shirts arrive then set up a distribution/collection meeting at the Beaverton IHop location. A Saturday evening time may allow folks to complete their scheduled activities and have some dinner first. Thanks to you and Team JOYSON for helping us save some cash.

Charlie Trail Duster -

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

2.8k · April 18, 2003

Those of you that ordered shirts please check the My Space section at the top of the page you're looking at right now. Then go to the Private Topics section and confirm that you found the private forums by replying to the thread about T-Shirts being ordered.

May 6, 2003

Getting close, so i'm bumping it up.

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May 7, 2003

Avast ye scurvy Knaves...th' Cap'n Finnish'd hoff sum hevent Bump'r Styk'rs an' as enuf t' feed th' first 30 or so ve'icles whats shows hup...Now ye all c'n 'BRAKE FER WAYPOINTS'

Keep yer sails 'igh, an' move swiftly,

<insert black eye emoticon here> Captain No Beard and the Pi Rats

May 7, 2003

Well, even without the wife and the Pi Rats it will be good to meet you this weekend, looking forward to it. Love to get one of your special bumper stickers and I will be extra early to do some special cache maintenance there .

See you there. Arghhhhh..

I've gone to look for myself, if I should return before I get back, please keep me here.

May 7, 2003

Looks like the Cap'n's not the only one who's flying solo for this event. Joy will be on a retreat at the beach this weekend, so I guess it's up to me to represent! We've bumped into the cap'n's crew more times out and about than any other geocachers to date (at least 3 or 4 times now I believe). Save one of those nifty stickers for me!

Jason of JOYSON

"And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek, and all was laid to burnination."

June 4, 2003

I just got an e-mail from my sister(R R Mateys) in Minnesota pointing to a geocaching article.

MINNESOTA: GPS treasure hunt under fire

It makes me appreciate Kyle and the other park people out here even more.

Requiring that caches be moved after a period of time so the vegetation can recover might not be a bad idea, though.

The Great Ridgewood View Trash Out!

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