Sugar Creek Wood Cleaning

[WoolyJR1]

Man Nick, I am sure am sorry that Laurie and I couldn't make it. Andy and Diane called me at the last minute and wanted to know if I wanted to go and hit the Mulberry and could Laurie come and cook lunch for us when we got off the river. I felt really bad about it but I knew that Andy and Diane wern't going anyway, so I thought you might call it off anyway. Oh well, give me a call next time and I will be there.

J. R.

[smcurtis]

Nick - sorry about Sunday, but Jessica got out of working on Sunday night and wanted to paddle, see her folks, and get Joe's pizza so we headed for Conway and the mighty Cadron. Hopefully next time.

Sean

[Owl]

Nick:

I'd planned to come down Sunday but I figured that you'd have so many energetic young paddlers down there helping you out that an old guy like me would just slow y'all down. I'll know better next time.

[Michele Jackson]

Nick,
My knee's been kind of gimped up, otherwise I would have been there. Maybe those logs will just wash out of there before we run it again.

M

[Fish]

Wonder if we can get a group to come down next Sunday after the NW Chapter Halloween party? Just need to recruit some chainsaw owners. Surely there are plenty of folks who love Sugar enough to make it?

- Fish

[Don Harwood]

That's kind of what we thought this time!
Apparently, there is not that much interest in Sugar!
Like Michele said, maybe it will just wash out!
Sure thought it would be easier to get some help with nothing to paddle and all!

[prophet]

if it's not too late, i'd like to throw out an excuse too.

"i only hang out with kayakers when the water's up"

[Fish]

In my experience it's hard to get a big group together anywhere to do anything. That's why we always offer free food when we need folks to show up! :) Anyway, sounded like you had at least a few really committed folks and several maybes (including me). Were the committed folks not able to make it too? I've cleaned pretty good stretches of creek with two guys and, one chainsaw, and a come-along and some ropes. I'm not talking a little brush either.

Since we are offering to feed people at the NW Chapt party this weekend, I thought we might have a better chance of getting a crew to commit to head down there Sunday morning from Tom's place. Anyway, if you want me to try to round up some suspects, let me know. Otherwise, I'll just plan on dodging a few trees this year on Sugar - the way we always have to do.

Thanks for your efforts there,
Fish

[jjones03]

I have a chainsaw and would definitely help...but its just a regular old chainsaw...i didnt know there was such a thing as eco friendly saws??

[mvhyde]

Shouldn't be too hard to get a good sized group together. We had close to two hundred people on the South Platte River Cleanup in Denver this year. My wife even had a dead cat in a trash bag on her duckie! Boof'd a 6 ft drop with it too! Of course, she isn't the one who picked it up and put it in the bag.

Maybe organize the wood cleaning with river trash cleaning. AW and ACA and manufacturers like Keen, Stohlquist, and other will pony up drawing prizes for the volunteers. Coordinate with a waste company and you can get the crap hauled off.

[dcheshier]

I find it hard to believe that anyone would think that Andy and I would skip out on cleaning up Sugar Creek in favor of running the Mulberry at 1.2! Maybe in a really bad water year, but there's been all sorts of opportunites to boat this year, so Sunday was a good day to give back. The rest of the fake excuses on this thread were pretty lame too!

Thanks to Nick and Don for organizing the clean up day. Also thanks to Hunter, Michele, Brad, JR & Laurie, John (from Texarkana!), Rob, and Sean for putting in a hard day of sawing, cutting, wading, carrying saws & tools, marking the killer bridge & eddy, and evading landowners in the name of paddler safety on the river. Although we didn't get out all the local paddlers, we really had a good crew on the river on Sunday.

Also thanks to everyone who volunteered to come out (again) on this thread to take care of business on Sugar Creek. There are plenty of others out there that could use some care, so take your good work there.

Can't wait for the rain so we can enjoy the fruits of our labor . . . but heads up on Sugar; there will always be some new wood somewhere.

Diane & Andy

[CapnTom]

Gee thanks alot for the guilt-trip from someone who honestly had a prior obligation.