Thanks to everyone that showed up and helped with our SAWS Cleanup last Saturday morning on Keechelus Ridge at the radio tower and around the local area. We had approximately two dozen SAWS members show up and we collected about 200 lbs of garbage according to the transfer station receipt. This only took us about two hours time. It sure didn't seem like that much weight to me, but I guess the scale doesn't lie. The back of my F-250 short bed pickup was about 3/4 full of garbage when we were done around noon. We found lots of non-snowmobile related garbage again like we did when we cleaned up the Reecer Creek Sno-Park a few months ago. We found a shot up lawn mower, shot up propane tank, and many other items not related to snowmobiling. But we also found quite a large amount of beverage containers and cigarette butts, many of these very well could have been from snowmobilers hanging out near the tower taking a break from riding or waiting to meet up with a riding buddy. Not sure why everyone can't pack their garbage out with them.

 

My wife and I were also very surprised and honored to receive a thank you card with a $250 donation to SAWS to help offset our costs, and also a gift certificate for the Salish Lodge at Snoqualmie Falls that was given to us to thank us for our volunteer work related to SAWS. Later in the day I also received another SAWS donation for $100. This was truly awesome! I don't know who all donated this amount of money to SAWS, and also for this special gift certificate that was presented following the cleanup, but I want to say THANK YOU so much for the thought. Marisa and I really appreciate the gift certificate, and SAWS really appreciate the $350 donation.

 

Here are a few pictures from the cleanup. Unfortunately not everyone made it back to the tower in time for the picture. We still had about 6 or 7 people out picking up garbage when the group picture was taken.