Fish Lake area spring cleaning. Opinions/suggestions?

[Yamaha_Ryder]

I spend most of the winter months sledding in the Fish Lake area as my family has a cabin there and nothing beats riding from the garage. I am aware of other heavily used areas having some sort of organized clean up in the spring/early summer months. I would like to start a similar event in the Fish Lake area.

I would definitely like to hit the major Sno Parks as well as some of the heavily used intersections/destinations. Snocone comes to mind... This is still in the very early planning stages, but I am determined to make this happen. I will hopefully be working with the Lake Wenatchee Rec. Club and the Forest Service.

I would like to open this thread to opinions and suggestions on how to get this event rolling. I will also use this thread to update the progress of the planning of the event. If you have any ideas, or would like to volunteer your time or resources, here is the place to let me know.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[Lake Cle Elum]

Chris: In Kittitas county, this is coordinated between SM clubs and the Forest Service. The FS provides trash bags, someone in a club usually shows up with a dump truck. Sometimes, each club takes a different sno-park.

My commitment this year to to take my KTM and some trash bags to the Gold Creek Micro-Wave towers this summer......Dunno why, but a lot of beer drinkers wanna leave a trophy behind.....Might be late June B4 the snow is gone?

 

[PowderMiner]

Yamaha Rider,

I was going to just go around with some trash bags, like 2 a weekend and put in an hour or so…
The Rec Club meets usually every month on the second Saturday at 9am. I’d like to organize a more robust snowmobile section of the club with meetings at like 5pm Saturday night, not in the middle of the main day of the weekend.

The Lake Wenatchee Club has been great and I’m very appreciative for there commitment and accomplishments over the years. With that primary in mind; there needs to be a new wave of members committed to carrying on the representation and coordination with the FS, State, and County.

This is a long winded way of saying I’m all in J

Volunteer time, other than officially organized time, should be reported to the club. They can report this, and can help organize a more substantial effort.

If it were something that gets a little larger, I’d pay for a load to the dump in my truck.

Also, I’d like to cover the higher areas by bike this early summer and take some backpacks-full out. I’d rather do it than have other users up there blaming it on us.

This Weekend is out, I’d like to get to Stevens Saturday and then it’s our first Mothers Day.

Lets see if any other club members, or prospective club members respond then set something up soon. We can get a hold of the club once we get some ideas together and bounce it off them.

Thanks for bringing it up
Powder

 

[HM8]

Sounds like a good idea. Keep me posted.

 

[Yamaha_Ryder]

I'm still waiting to get some contact info for Randy (the local Forest Service guy) and hopefully I can get in touch with someone in the Rec. Club this weekend. I will keep you guys updated.

 

[Yamaha_Ryder]

Powderminer, I'm glad im not the only one thinking about this... You're over there full time right? I may be calling on you for some assistance as I don't get over there much this time of year.

Chris

 

[PowderMiner]

Sure thing Chris, I wish we were over here full time! Only about 1/3; it just seem like it because we consider that we "live" on the east-side and sleep on the west-side

I sent the rec club an e-mail saying a few of us are interested and asking if they know of concern locations or have suggestions. They have a web site that talks about keeping track of snowmobile related volunteer hours; they use those to help when applying for grants.

http://www.lakewenatcheerecclub.com/index.html

I'll keep you posted when I hear back…

 

[PowderMiner]

Lake Wenatchee Rec Club, Rest-Stop Coffee & Goodies

The Rec Club is doing a Coffee and Goodies, on May 21-23, at the Rest Stop on Hwy 2, 3 miles north of Coles Corner… Stop in and support the Rec Club and get some good treats.

I think Yamaha Rider is talking to the right people; the Rec Club and Lake Wenatchee Info.com. The club is meeting this Saturday morning and going to discus it; they are also asking if the USFS has any support with dump fees and bags…

It might be good, if it works for a few or many, to have the clean-up on that Saturday? They could post it at the coffee shop for good PR, and also be a date that a few club members will be around volunteering at the coffee stand.

So… potentially the 22nd? What do you think Yamaha Rider?

Thanks for bringing it up!