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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jan 22, 2014 - 01:19pm PT
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I worked as a crew leader on some of Shane's trips.
I finally stopped doing the garden cleanups, because I hated crawling through poison oak for hours.
When I was doing it, we had to walk in. It usually took hours, and sometimes we could not find the garden, in spite of GPS. I guess a GPS from a moving airship is not so precise.
Anyway, the amount of trash was measured in TONS. To hand carry it out would have taken months of crawling through the brush. We'd have never finished one, much less the 500 or so gardens that were cleaned up.
I never rode in a helicopter on these, and never wanted to. But moving the stuff any other way was just not practical.
And keep in mind that all the actual cleanup work was done by volunteers.
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pb
Sport climber
Sonora Ca
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Jan 22, 2014 - 11:50pm PT
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there are some funky biners out there these days...but plastic?
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Paul Martzen
Trad climber
Fresno
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Jan 23, 2014 - 01:59am PT
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Thanks for the links and pasting of the story. Pretty sad that neither Shane nor the crewman noticed the problem. Wonder why he had a plastic d ring?
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