NWOGEO Year 4 Adopt-A-Highway/CITO #2 of 4 in O7' Cache In Trash Out Event

The following four Adopt-A-Highway/CITO (Cache-In-Trash-Out) Events will be held this year:

This is our 4th consecutive year participating in the Ohio Department of Transportation's Adopt-A-Highway Program as a NWOGEO and Groundspeak CITO Event.

We meet at the American Legion parking lot, at the coordinates at the top of this page, to coordinate our CITO, and hold a "tailgate" safety briefing.  Being close to the middle of our adopted section, it makes a good base of operations. If you can't arrive in time, this will also be a good place for you to come and find someone who can get you up to speed.

In the past, with plenty of volunteers, the CITOs took barely an hour to complete.

Our CITO events are actually a good time, and we often find places to grab some food and socialize or hunt caches after our events. Click here to see photos of previous events.

WHO/WHERE:

Northwest Ohio Geocachers are the proud maintainers of a two mile section of US-24/Anthony Wayne Trail, west of Waterville near Grand Rapids, with a portion of our section bordering Providence Metropark.

Our obligation is to pick up litter four times a year along our adopted highway section.  In return, ODOT has posted nice free advertising for us on signs (see image above), at each each end of our adopted section.

Coordinates of our the sign at the eastern end of our highway section:

  N 41º  25.974'    W 083º   49.871'

Coordinates or our the sign at the western end of our highway section:

  N 41º  25.029'    W 083º   51.446'

ODOT will also post orange "SHOULDER WORK AHEAD" signs at each end of our section for each of our clean-up events.

We are responsible for picking up litter between the berm of the road and the utility pole line.

If you can not or do not feel like walking and picking up litter, we can also use a driver or two to drop off people and supplies, as well as distribute water or other supplies we may need.

WHAT TO BRING:

ODOT supplies bright colored safety vests that everyone must wear during cleanup. Alternately, we have Safety Green NWOGEO T-Shirts available for purchase via our NWOGEO website, or you bring your own Safety vest.

While ODOT provides trash bags, some of us bring extra bags.

Wear sturdy shoes and bring gloves in case there are some dangerous items along the way (eg. broken glass and uhh, containers filled with a certain disgusting liquid.) Some of us also bring along Latex gloves to wear under our work gloves.

Y ou may also want to bring insect repellant with at least 20% DEET or 7% Picaridin, as we have had a few tick incidents. (Click here for tick and repellant information) Sunscreen is also a good idea.

If you have FRS/GMRS radios, bring 'em along, and set them to channel 2.

WHY:

This is one way of giving back to the community as well as making a good name for our organization. So let’s have lots of people out there, do it quickly, and have fun in the process!

Please be aware that by participating in this cache event, you are agreeing to the guidelines and liability limitations as described by the disclaimer that can be found on this and all other cache pages. Additionally, you agree and understand that you are  participating on your own, and that NWOGEO has no insurance or liability in the unlikely event of a mishap. Children are welcome and often attend, however parents must use their discretion concerning how their children participate.

Any questions may be posted here as a note in the logs, or on our website below, and someone will answer them.

Hope to see you there!

NWOGEO's GC TRACKABLES

Northwest Ohio Geocachers Club Geocoin Antique Gold Antique Silver Available to everyone for  $8 at NWOGEO Events or $8.75 Shipped Back View Available to resident members ONLY, for $8 at NWOGEO Events ONLY ! Click on an image for larger view Click for details on these trackable coins at GroundSpeak Forums

OTHER NWOGEO EVENTS:

View listings of other NWOGEO Event Caches at Geocaching.com.
 

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