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rawevil 7 years, 5 months ago.
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Do to our snowfall of a lifetime over the weekend, CITO cleanup in NE Wisconsin is going to be impossible. I’m posting here to get valuable discussion and thoughts from the WGA membership on rescheduling a CITO event.
First thought: Move event back one week; to April 28th. BUT will this snow be gone by then? CITO virtual souvenir is still in play.
Second thought: Move event to first or second weekend in May. My problem with that is the whole month of May is busy for me and my family. I would have to find someone else to run the event then. The other issue here is; no virtual souvenir for CITO event.
Third thought: I believe summer time is just not an option. Everyone is busy or on vacation.
Fourth thought; Hold the CITO event in September during the other virtual souvenir period (15th-23rd). It would be held weekend prior to fall campout. Issue here is, ground cover and insects make this time of year for trash pick up a bit more difficult.
I was waiting to post my will attend until I was sure I will attend. Then I read the announcement about hoping it would warm up. But even some warmth probably wouldn’t make enough of a dent. I think a souvenir is nice, but many people did many a CITO before souvenirs and likely would still come. But like you, my May is pretty busy. We used to do the highway clean-up twice a year and attendance was higher in the spring than it was in the fall. You make good points, and I’m sorry I don’t have any strong advice for you. I guess my vote would be for 4/28, but I don’t know how much melting would happen. One extended forecast I looked at has highs in the 50s all that week prior and 60s for the 28th…but info is less reliable that far out.
I agree with amita17, people did CITOs before souvenirs existed and they will do CITOs regardless of whether they get a souvenir or not. Do what works best for you.
All opinions, comments, and useless drivel I post are mine alone and do not reflect the opinions of the WGA BOD.
I’m not too concerned about the souvenir, there will probably be other CITO’s to get the souvenir, and if not no biggie. Unfortunately I can’t say that any weekend further out would work better. Work keeps threatening to work weekends, and being that I’ve only been there since December, I can’t bail too much on them. I do think we’ll get some warm weather, this next week, I suspect it will diminish the snow greatly possibly completely, but everything will be a mud bath out there. I know there were some concerns about damaging the surrounding foliage. In the end I don’t have much advice for you. In the end, someone will have to pick a date and hopefully it works for everyone. I truly hope its a weekend I can be available, the idea of dragging heavy metal up a hill just sounds like an awesome adventure, regardless of how much work it is. Of your 4 options, the fourth might just be the best…
The views expressed here are that of myself only and do not necessarily represent that of the WGA board.
I hope people CITO every time they cache. I personally don’t care about the souvenir.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-Henry David Thoreau
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