Pointless Prize: KOT and QOT
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An evil strand of thorns was covering over half the path along the switchback between Potomac Ave and 4mrt.
Many fingers were pricked and bloodied and a shirt snagged on thorns, but I persevered in an effort to save my fellow cyclists and pedestrians from the evil thorn monster.
The trail is safe again… For now.
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An evil strand of thorns was covering over half the path along the switchback between Potomac Ave and 4mrt.
Many fingers were pricked and bloodied and a shirt snagged on thorns, but I persevered in an effort to save my fellow cyclists and pedestrians from the evil thorn monster.
The trail is safe again… For now.
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Erin gets two points for a random act of trail goodness for removing a thorny branch from the trail. An additional point has been awarded for courageously engaging in hand to hand combat with this dastardly shrub. 3 points!
More trail love…!
Taking up reji’s excellent, nay, ELITE idea, I packed 5 grocery bags for my leisure ride today, intending to tackle 4MR Trail where it passes under Mt. Vernon Ave. I also decided to toss in heavy-duty thick rubber dishwashing gloves I had. I did not, however, have the brilliant idea to pack an alternative pair of shoes… my cleats and the shoes overall will need much love this evening, getting them cleaned up — at one point, I took a step onto dry leaves and nearly sank to my ankle into mud.I finally arrived at my trash-starting point — (A) in the route image — around 2:40, and spent the next hour and 20 there, slowly moving along the trail to my ending point — (
— and grabbing all the trash I could find on both sides of the trail. (A surprising amount of broken glass at the edges of the trails — I was happy to have the thick gloves, which let me “sweep it up” with my hands.) I filled all 5 of my bags, plus two more bags that I found as trash, and needed in order to continue! At one point, I had most of those hanging from my bike as I would have to move my bike periodically so I never got too far away from it.Not surprisingly (based on the Conservatory cleanup day’s haul) — probably a hundred Swisher Sweets wrappers were in the mix. But lots of other junk, and I was intrigued by the number of very tiny zip-lock bags I picked up — roughly 1-inch square bags with a tiny ziplock end. Also, I think a lot of black plastic that looked to be a byproduct of the temporary sewer pipe project (or its demolition) earlier.
Next leisure outing I will pack twice as many bags or more, to continue cleaning westward — I stopped just before the construction area, which is just as inundated with trash.
Trash Route from A to B
[ATTACH=CONFIG]19444[/ATTACH]A before-and-after (I should have taken many more pics!)
I decided to finger-rake through the leaves, and found many more bottles and cans hidden beneath…
[ATTACH=CONFIG]19445[/ATTACH]Nearly done – one more bag found and used to hold more trash after this shot, before depositing them all in the circled trash can and calling it a day.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]19446[/ATTACH]@Christob50 187474 wrote:
More trail love…!
Taking up reji’s excellent, nay, ELITE idea, I packed 5 grocery bags for my leisure ride today, intending to tackle 4MR Trail where it passes under Mt. Vernon Ave. I also decided to toss in heavy-duty thick rubber dishwashing gloves I had. I did not, however, have the brilliant idea to pack an alternative pair of shoes… my cleats and the shoes overall will need much love this evening, getting them cleaned up — at one point, I took a step onto dry leaves and nearly sank to my ankle into mud.I finally arrived at my trash-starting point — (A) in the route image — around 2:40, and spent the next hour and 20 there, slowly moving along the trail to my ending point — (
— and grabbing all the trash I could find on both sides of the trail. (A surprising amount of broken glass at the edges of the trails — I was happy to have the thick gloves, which let me “sweep it up” with my hands.) I filled all 5 of my bags, plus two more bags that I found as trash, and needed in order to continue! At one point, I had most of those hanging from my bike as I would have to move my bike periodically so I never got too far away from it.Not surprisingly (based on the Conservatory cleanup day’s haul) — probably a hundred Swisher Sweets wrappers were in the mix. But lots of other junk, and I was intrigued by the number of very tiny zip-lock bags I picked up — roughly 1-inch square bags with a tiny ziplock end. Also, I think a lot of black plastic that looked to be a byproduct of the temporary sewer pipe project (or its demolition) earlier.
Next leisure outing I will pack twice as many bags or more, to continue cleaning westward — I stopped just before the construction area, which is just as inundated with trash.
Trash Route from A to B
[ATTACH=CONFIG]19444[/ATTACH]A before-and-after (I should have taken many more pics!)
I decided to finger-rake through the leaves, and found many more bottles and cans hidden beneath…
[ATTACH=CONFIG]19445[/ATTACH]Nearly done – one more bag found and used to hold more trash after this shot, before depositing them all in the circled trash can and calling it a day.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]19446[/ATTACH]Chris B gets two points for deliberately random act of trail goodness. One additional point for the advanced trash picking technique of using a bike like a pack mule. One additional point for being of such pure heart that you don’t know how the tiny ziplock bags got there. One more point for a detailed write up with annotated maps and photographs. 5 points!
As a side note, Ursula from the WABA Trail Ranger program advises that if you’re cleaning up broken glass that putting it in a paper bag is effective. The glass won’t cut through a paper bag easily, but it tends to rip through plastic bags.
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