Sunday, May 19, 2019 from 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. This is one of the days that Geocaching HQ will award a souvenir for attending a CITO Event.
Park and Meet in the neighborhood at the posted coordinates. Our two sections run from Baldwin Road to Barbara Street, approximately 1.2 miles. It is a short walk or drive to get to our sections of the trail. This will be the sixth CITO event to clean these sections of the trail. In the past, we have had enough people to be able to clean some other sections too.
The work plan includes picking up trash and stomping down tall weeds. Latex gloves, 30-gallon trash bags, Band-Aids to prevent "trigger finger blisters", and a limited number of trash pickers will be provided.
All Volunteers, who have not participated in one of the previous four previous CITO events, must sign a county supplied Release of Liability Form.
A site-specific Safety Briefing will take place on site, but here is a link to general safety information.
Please put this event on your Watch List to be informed of any updates.
EVENT HISTORY:
It has been over two years since the Ojai Valley Cachers officially adopted two sections of the Ojai Valley Trail as part of the Ventura County Parks Department "Adopt-A-Trail" Program. We were the pioneers that resurrected this program. In the ensuing months, other companies or individuals have adopted four additional sections and two more are pending approval. We led the way.
CITO Event #1: On November 5, 2016: Thirty geocachers and several muggle friends and family came together and cleaned FIVE sections of the trail, from the "Y" intersection to Barbara Street.
CITO Event #2: On April 23, 2017, approximately fifty-five geocachers and muggles cleaned SEVEN sections of trail, approximately 6.5 miles from the "Y" intersection to Santa Ana Blvd in Oak View, which was approximately 50% of the length of the County portion of the trail.
CITO Event #3: On November 23, 2017, twenty-one geocachers cleaned up three sections of the trail. Every geocacher gathered enough trash to fill up at least half of a 13-gallon trash bag.
CITO Event #4: On April 28, 2018, about 30 geocachers and others helped clean our two sections plus one other (which has since been adopted by the gsmX2 family.
CITO Event #5: On September 16, 2018, about 30 geocachers and others helped clean our two sections of trail plus the section that was adopted by the gsmX2 family.
Just for information, to fulfill our obligation to clean up our sections of the trail at least 4 times a year, a small contingent of the OVC conducts a cleanup in between these major efforts.
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