GC1AVTT 2nd Annual Cedar Rapids CITO Extravaganza! (Cache In Trash Out Event) in Iowa, United States created by AB-n-AP

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Hidden : Sunday, April 20, 2008

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2nd Annual Cedar Rapids CITO Extravaganza!
PRESENTED BY
AB-n-AP

Welcome to our annual Cedar Rapids Area CITO event: The Cedar Rapids CITO Extravaganza! The plan for this annual event is to change locations each and every year in an effort to keep the event fresh, fun, adventurous, productive, and helpful to Cedar Rapids and the surrounding area.

This year we'll be cleaning the park & road area along the northern side of the Cedar River leading to the Roller Dam. This 1/2 mile section is easy walking for the most part, but there is some slightly rough terrain along the river and in the wooded areas. Just be sure to watch your footing. The garbage and trash is plentiful, so rest assurred that we will have plenty of trash to pick up. :) Please be prepared to walk along a dirt road, into small wooded areas, and along the bank of the river.

Heavy duty trash bags will be supplied and the city will take care of garbage pick-up once we're finished. All you need to bring is yourself and the desire to help pick up litter along a small area of our cache-friendly city. A bunch of trash accumulates in this remote area due to illegal dumping, so a lot of garbage bags will be filled! Let's help keep Cedar Rapids and the surrounding area clean for future geocaching and take this opportunity to say "thank you" to the Cedar Rapids Parks Department for their continuous support of geocaching.

Everyone is welcome to attend the 2nd Annual Cedar Rapids CITO Extravaganza!

Please join us at 1:00PM on Sunday April 20th, 2008 at the picnic table located at the parking coordinates you see at the top of this page. Please arrive between 12:45PM - 1:15PM to sign the log book and receive garbage bags. The log book will be available at all times, so make sure you sign it (this is a geocache afterall) to be eligable for prizes at the end. The entire event is planned to run 1:00PM - 4:00PM, but could end slightly sooner or later depending on how fast we clean the area. The ground is both level and unlevel mostly consisting of dirt, grass, twigs, logs, rocks, downed trees, etc. Please bring your own water for the duration of the event. Latex gloves will be provided, but we encourage you to bring your own heavy duty work gloves if you have them.

After the event we will award prizes and to be eligible you must sign the log book. There will be plenty of prizes so be sure to stick around for the conclusion of the event. Please continue to check this event webpage as we continue to update the list of prizes.

Prizes to be won: (last updated 4/15/08)

2 unactivated Travel Bug Dog Tags (2 winners)
2 ammocans (2 winners) - Donated by Uncle Stan's Military Surplus
2 unactivated 2007 Iowa Geocoins (2 winners)
3 Decon containers (3 winners) - Donated by Uncle Stan's Military Surplus
1 Groundspeak trackable 2008 Volunteer Geocoin (1 winner) - Donated by IowaAdmin

That's a total of 10 prizes to give away.

Schedule for the Day:

12:45PM - 1:15PM

Arrive at the posted coordinates and check in/sign the logbook.
Pass out trash bags and latex gloves.

1:15PM - 4:00PM (or until area is done)

Start at the parking coordinates and clean the park and road area all the way to the Roller Dam. An efficiant plan will be set in motion in order to clean up the area as quick as possible. Please plan to walk/CITO for a 1/2 mile. The images below will give you an idea of the type of landscape and trash to expect. ADDED 4/15/08: Anybody who has FRS radios feel free to bring them and tune to channel 12.

4:00PM - 4:30PM
(or immediately following the clean-up portion)

Head back to the pinic table area (posted coordinates at the top of page) for prizes, thank you's, group photo (with all the accumulated garbage), and event closure.

If you can't make it for the entire event, feel free to come whenever you can to help.