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04/24/2017 at 12:31 pm #2054895
So we participated in a CITO last weekend (GC736MQ), as I’m sure many of you did, and I was just wondering what is the weirdest thing you cleaned up? I suppose it could be from last weekend or any other time that you did some CITO.
The weirdest thing we found was an enormous dog pillow that was completely soaked from being in a ditch full of water. It was so big and heavy that I couldn’t carry it very far. I ended up putting it out in the parking lot so it could drain and someone else could carry it over to a nearby dumpster later. We also found a cheetah-spot umbrella that I considered using for camo on a cache.
Oh the woes of the short geocacher!
04/24/2017 at 2:30 pm #2054898While I’ve never took part in a CITO, I’ve been part of other cleanups around Green Bay. I once found a hub cap on one of these cleanups.
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04/24/2017 at 6:05 pm #2054901Trekkin’ found what he thought at first was an old safe, but upon further inspection, realized it was a paper towel dispenser of the type found in public restrooms. Mrs. Pharmdog found a nice pair of men’s boxers!
04/25/2017 at 1:16 am #2054907For us this past weekend the weirdest thing was probably fiberglass sections of what we assume was a boat. Our CITO event was at Sheridan Park, right along Lake Michigan. All sorts of stuff washes up on shore. Other items worth mentioning from this weekend include a few tires, a few pairs of pants, a 50 to 70 lb iron beam, and a few 5 to 6 foot lengths of rebar.
04/25/2017 at 6:55 am #2054908I saw a plastic Christmas tree stand this past weekend.
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04/25/2017 at 8:08 am #2054910I got chicken feet-real dead cooked ones . . .
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04/27/2017 at 12:29 pm #2054942Gah! That’s gross!
I found a cool R2-D2 water bottle that I actually brought home, ran through the dishwasher 3 times, and now use. And once Jacob found a waterproof backpack floating in Lake Superior. We were caching via kayak, so that counts as CITO, right? He was pretty excited by his score.
Oh the woes of the short geocacher!
04/27/2017 at 3:03 pm #2054948I find it rather ironic that cachers go all out one day a year to pick up bottles and cans and other items of trash that they find in parks and woods and lying in ditches and around signposts, and then for the other 364 days they go out to find little pieces of plastic that looks much like trash that other cachers have dumped in parks and woods and in ditches and around signposts… and leave it all there. Some may even intentionally “throw down” a discarded piece of plastic and walk away with a “smile”…
04/28/2017 at 9:39 am #2054952True. I recently met a Canadian geocacher who laughingly said something about how geocaching was just organized, socially acceptable littering.
But that’s OK, we do lots of CITO when we are doing our regular caching and not just one day a year. Also, responsible cachers will pick up their containers after archiving them, so no long-term littering.
Oh the woes of the short geocacher!
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