A Different Type of CITO. Please Read
This is not your usual Cache In Trash Out event where the location to gather is given and from there the cleanup starts. From the parking area in Idlewild Park, we will hike about .3 miles along a well-defined trail and about 250 feet into the woods to find the area that we will police.
We will meet in the parking lot and then trek out to the CITO site. If you are late, hike out to the posted coordinates and join in the pickup. Part of the fun of the event is finding your way to the site as you would any other cache.
I will have trash bags, but please bring your own grasping tools, gloves, and water. We will NOT pick up any heavy construction debris; it has been mostly overgrown anyway. However, there is the one tire that must go.
NOTE: A benefit for those who have not cached in Idlewild Park is that there are over a dozen caches of various sorts within the park. For those who have visited before, there are a few that have been put out recently. One cache is near where we will be working.
One of the disheartening banes of geocaching is to find a trashy area deep within a forest. An occasional beer can or soda bottle is easy enough to pick up and carry to the next trash receptacle, usually back in the parking lot. But a whole area of cans, bottles, tires, and plastics? In the middle of a mature forest in an established park? There likely was a dump area at the end of a long-abandoned road and the county purchased the surrounding 125 acres for a park. Boundaries were put around the park and portions were developed for ball fields, playgrounds, hiking, and parking. Disc golf as well. But the entire area was never scrutinized, thus leaving in this case an ugly trashy area.
