For the Month of July, 17 members of the Santa Barbara 4 Wheel Drive club spent our mid month “Sunday-Fun-Day” on a mission to do a trail clean-up on the West Camino Cielo Trail.
This is a well-used, popular off road trail used by many in our area.
With a large “dump-style” trailer provided by one of our members, Ryan. The Club with 17 volunteers & 15 rigs set out and got to work..
With some initial recon done the week before by Bryan Ford and Brian Slattery we developed a well thought out plan with members walking the sides of the road using long handled grabbers from the Winchester Gun Range to our stopping/lunch point several miles in.
We spent additional extended times at the heavily used, well worn pull-out locations scattered along the trail all at the same time keeping a sharp eye out for rattlesnakes.
We were able to collect everything from spent shell casings to plastic bottles, paper plates, metal targets of every shape and size imaginable, dumped furniture, cabinets, and even remnants of an old trampoline.
All in all we filled the large dump trailer to the brim.
Members relaxed and enjoyed a hot dog lunch at the end of our day before hauling out everything we had collected and heading home.
All in all it was a good day in which everyone was very satisfied with our efforts to clean up the forestry trail we all enjoy so much.
