EVENT INFORMATION:
Saturday, April 28 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., which is one of the days Groundspeak will award a souvenir for attending a CITO Event.
Park and Meet in the parking lot of Full of Beans (the posted coordinates). Our two sections run from Baldwin Road to Barbara Street, approximately 1.2 miles. It is a short walk or drive to get to our sections of the trail. This will be the fourth CITO event to clean these sections of the trail. In the past, we have had enough people to be able to clean other sections too.
The work plan includes picking up trash and stomping down tall weeds. Latex gloves, 30-gallon trash bags, trash pickers and Band-Aids to prevent "trigger finger blisters" will be provided.
All Volunteers, who have not participated in one of the previous three previous CITO events, must sign a county supplied Release of Liability Form.
A site specific Safety Briefing will take place on site, but here is a link to general safety information.
Please put this event on your Watch List to be informed of any updates.
EVENT HISTORY:
It has been two years since the Ojai Valley Cachers officially adopted two sections of the Ojai Valley Trail as part of the Ventura County Parks Department "Adopt-A-Trail" Program. We were the pioneers that resurrected this program. In the ensuing months, other companies or individuals have adopted four additional sections and two more are pending approval. We led the way.
CITO Event #1: On November 5, 2016: Thirty geocachers and several muggle friends and family came together and cleaned FIVE sections of the trail, from the "Y" intersection to Barbara Street.
CITO Event #2: On April 23, 2017, approximately fifty-five geocachers and muggles cleaned SEVEN sections of trail, approximately 6.5 miles from the "Y" intersection to Santa Ana Blvd in Oak View, which was approximately 50% of the length of the County portion of the trail.
CITO Event #3: On November 23, 2017, twenty-one geocachers cleaned up three sections of the trail. Every geocacher gathered enough trash to fill up at least half of a 13-gallon trash bag.
Just for information, to fulfill our obligation to clean up our sections of the trail at least 4 times a year, a small contingent of the OVC conducts a cleanup in between these major efforts.