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    Talking VIDEO: Gorge Rat Spring Gathering 2012

    Video clips from the first day of the May 2012 Gorge Rat Gathering. We made it a Gorge Clean Up Day. Several Gorge Rats cleaned all the campsites along the road on the west rim, several hiked into the Conley Cove area to clean up that mess and a double team cleaned up the large deposit of trash below Wiseman's View. The day for me ended in setting up camp with my fellow rats Ken, Waterbar Jim, Mtncmpr, and Crazytrain. A fine Dutch oven meal consisting of Beef Stew, yeast rolls and sweet corn on the cob!

    You will find no finer group of people than the Gorge Rats. I can't say enough good about the Rats that worked their back sides off to clean up after the low life pond scum sucking waste of oxygen that liters such a beautiful place ... but I'm not bitter!

    Stay tuned for a fun video to come in the next day or two ... "The Watcher" staring our very own Hangin Burrito, Running Feather, Hickery (of the famed Hickery Brothers duo), and of course ... the Watcher!


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    Hard to believe.

    Amazing how much garbage you all removed. Way to go!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Groovy View Post
    Amazing how much garbage you all removed. Way to go!
    Thanks ... the video only shows a part of the event. The team on top of the cliff worked hard under less than ideal conditions to pull that mess up the 250 feet. The team that cleaned the campsite removed broken glass and all sorts of mess from road side campsites. Ken & Jim burnt and hauled out a massive amout of trash from the river campsites along Conley Cove.

    Sure is embarrassing how some people behave!

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    Man you guys are awesome! Thanks for working hard to clean the big ditch.

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    wish i could have helped. i will be there next year!

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    You guys are my heros. Thanks for taking the time to clean up and make this video.
    I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. - E. B. White (1899 - 1985)

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    Great video work!
    But, low life pond scum?!! I mean, who HASN'T pushed a WalMart cart off a cliff?

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    Great job! Wish the folks who dumped the trash had to ride up the cliff in those barrels for throwing them down there. Great work.

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    Good work gents!

    I had to wonder what the other unsuspecting folks in the ditch thought when they heard those barrels clanging along!?


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    though I will most likly never visit "the big ditch", a BIG THANK YOU, not just for the vid, but for cleaning up.... lead by example.... terrima kasih, or khap khun kap, and a lot more "thank you"'s

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