AZ - Annual Four Peaks/Sycamore Creek Cleanup Feb 6th

[alrock]

February 6th, 9 am to 3 pm. While this conflicts with the mega run, the mega run may get moved to the 20th of Feb.

It would be great to get a bunch of Hummer owners out there doing our part to clean up other people's mess. This is a great wheeling area that we need to protect and these cleanups go a long way towards helping the OHV cause.

http://tr.im/GP18

[alrock]

Bump! I hope some others will join me for this event to help clean up one of our favorite wheeling areas. We can pick a time to meet still (9:30 ish?) and you can stay for as short or long as you like. But a show of force from the Hummer community would be great.

[SOAZ]

Thanks for spreading the word guys!
Last year we had 500 people cleanup 21 tons of trash! More info here: www.fourpeakspickup.blogspot.com

[SOAZ]

I recorded a 45 minute spot today about the Four Peaks Pickup. You can listen to it live on the website or by tuning into one of the stations below.

Valley Focus airs simultaneously on 93.3 KDKB-FM, 100.7 KSLX, 97.9 KUPD-FM, 1440 KAZG-AM on Sunday mornings from 6 am – 7 am
http://www.kdkb.com/

[SOAZ]

Items for the give away are showing up daily.

Also some press is working out:
Keep an eye out on Channel 12 News over the next couple days. We did an interview with Lin Sue Cooney for a special about the cleanup.

Here is an article about the cleanup from ABC 15: http://www.abc15.com/content/entertainm ... I-f_w.cspx

[alrock]

Meetup time? How about 9:00 at the Ft. McDowell Chevron station, Hwy 87 and Ft. McDowell Rd, 2 miles north of Shea.

[SOAZ]

I just heard from Bill Burke who will be at the cleanup to help fill some bags! He is also bringing out a bunch of items for the give away! What a guy.
Check out his 4-Wheeling America site here. http://www.bb4wa.com

[SOAZ]

See you guys up there!!!!!


SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

Saturday February 6th. 9am-3pm.


THE CLEANUP IS BEING HELD ABOUT 25 MINUTES FROM PHOENIX, AZ.
To get to the cleanup head towards PAYSON, AZ on the 87 (Beeline Highway). After you past the bush highway exit look for signs leading you to turn right on FOUR PEAKS RD. The sign in table/headquarters is less than a mile from the highway.

9am- Cleanup begins. (Most people come and go as needed. This is just the official start time to shoot for.)

1pm-3pm Hot dogs and pizza will begin being served for lunch. Drop by as you bring a load of trash to the dumpsters.

3pm- We will hand out one raffle ticket to EVERY volunteer present for the give away. You must be present and listening to your number being called out to win!!

4pm- We all go home very tired and satisfied with a great day behind us.


SUGGESTED ITEMS

1. Gloves
2. Hat
3. Long pants
4. Sun screen
5. Close toed shoes.

Optional
-Rake or shovel.
-Camelback or way to carry water.
-Pickup truck or trailer to carry trash bags to dumpsters.

Communication: I will be on CB RADIO Channel 4, FRS Radio Channel 4 and HAM 2 Meter Channel 146.460.

See you there and Thank YOU!
Tim Huber

P.S. Say hello and thank you to all of our great sponsors like John Hunter for example.
John has been at every cleanup and in addition to building amazing offroad machines like his Sheriff's department rock buggy is also a volunteer Sheriff. He keeps everyone safe at the cleanup!!!'
Check him out at www.hunteroffroad.com

[SOAZ]

The CHANNEL 12 Interview with Lin Sue Cooney is up:

http://www.azcentral.com/video/#/News/F ... 4681080001

[72cb750cafe]

We will be coming today, we're probably going to leave the hummer at home and ride with a friend who will be pulling our crappy little trailer (mine has no trailer hitch) ,,, Will hopefully be at the gas station at or just after 9 .. If not we'll see you guys up at four peaks.

-Phil

[alrock]

Jerry, Phil and I participated in the cleanup yesterday. We didn't see Phil until later as he was working in a different cleanup site. In all, I think they had 40 sites, campsites or shooting areas, set up for cleaning. There were a dozen of us working area "A" and thankfully one of our volunteers was in the hauling biz so he had a truck to accommodate all of our trash.

Overall, I saw about 4 roll-off dumpsters get filled with garbage - and that doesn't include our load as the guy went straight to the dump.

While this pic isn't exactly the area we cleaned it is representative


We hauled out at least 4 shot up TVs, construction cones, doors, boxes, beer cans, thousands of shells. While you Atlantic guys were shoveling snow we where shoveling this **** :d

Here's a few after pics.

[SOAZ]

Great shots! I'll post more info on the tonnage of trash when it's final.
We had just under 500 people come out!!

Thanks for coming out and working so hard!!!

Tim Huber (SOAZ)

[SOAZ]

Well, it was an amazing year again. THANK YOU from Danica and I to all of the many volunteers that came out and the many sponsors that lent a hand in making it so successful this year.

-Just under 500 people came out to make the day a giant step forward to cleaning up our Arizona deserts.

-Almost 25 TONS of trash were cleaned up filling 4 and a half large dumpsters!!

Check out these amazing photos from Chris Marzonie HERE.

Tim Huber

We had fun from the beginning,


middle


to the end


Thank you!

[alrock]

Thanks Tim for putting on this event. Glad it is such a success, though the bummer is we collected 50,000 lbs of garbage left in the past year.

To put it in perspective, that's 137 lbs of garbage left there every single day in the last year. Or, if you figure most of it comes on weekends, it's about 1000 lbs every weekend

[SOAZ]

When you put it into those numbers it really hits home! YIKES!
Makes me want to go and sit out there and "talk" to people that dump all that trash.

In other news:

Your all heroes!

Big thanks to Lin Sue Cooney and the videographers who put together a follow up to the Four Peaks Pickup which aired last night just after the Olympics!

Check out the video here:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/pla ... 7744697001