Tag Archives: CITO
Geocachers Cleanup Awards for Cleaning Up
The environment wins big when geocachers attend Cache In Trash Out (CITO) events. But now a group of Texas, USA geocachers are winning for their cleanup efforts. Travis Gilbert (SKnight579) organized the Permian Basin Cachers Association CITO Events. Travis says, “We are a smaller group of cachers (around about 30) in the middle of nowhere out in West Texas.” “A smaller group” with a big agenda to pick up trash. They’ve adopted two sites and pledged to clear trash from those areas on a regular basis. One site is a stretch of four lane highway and another is a location [...]
Eric Schudiske on July 8, 2012, 10:00 am
Cache In Trash Out (CITO) – A Lackey’s Story
By: MissJenn The CITO season is thick upon us. This past weekend, several Lackeys joined dozens of other geocachers at two CITO events near Groundspeak HQ. Dani, LutherNation and myself (MissJenn) participated in “This CITO’s a Beach.” Rain fell heavily as we drove towards the location and when we got there, no one else was in the designated meeting point. Oh no! Did everyone else cancel because of the weather? Not at all. It was simply the fact that we had arrived an hour early and no one was there yet. This was a perfect opportunity to go find [...]
Eric Schudiske on April 19, 2011, 12:33 pm
Geocachers climb Mt. Fuji to Cache In Trash Out (CITO)
Cache In Trash Out | Extreme Geocaching
Mt. Fuji, outside of Toyko Japan, reaches 3,776 m (12,388 ft.) into the sky, but is still not immune from the trash found at lower elevations. Geocacher atstgm helped organize an ascent of Mt. Fuji to complete a grueling Cache In Trash Out (CITO) tour. Armed with garbage bags more than a dozen geocachers started hiking up the tallest mountain in Japan at 11:00am on September 3rd. They stayed over night at a staging area, then began hiking again in the predawn darkness at 1:30am on the 4th. The group reached the summit of Mt. Fuji around 5am and began [...]
Eric Schudiske on September 23, 2010, 2:07 pm
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