Yup, sounds like you were in California, when you should have been on
the East Coast, no way would it take a half million to clean-up the
rusty junque. Since you didn't try to stay around other people, can I
ask why? Dogs? Drinking problems? Did you ask Leonard or anyone else
where to park?
Where are you camped now? Go up to Rice, CA and stay on the old
airfield slabs, there, not that far back to Parker, AZ or Blythe, CA,
and you will be by yourself for the most part.
Millie
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fred Stevens K2FRD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> With all due respect to those who are fond of the Slabs, but I
spent 2 1/2 weeks there last month (Oct) and found the entire place
to be trashed with a lot more than beer cans and stray bags of
garbage. Burned out RVs, trailers, busses, and vehicles; abandoned
junker and junked RVs and vehicles partially stripped for parts; on
the main corner is a junk yard with a mostly disassembled mobile home
with someone living in it; old used tires, piles of garbage,
incinerated piles of garbage, huge bonfire-sized burn pits, broken
glass (ubiquitous) add to the visual and physical detraction of the
area. I drove around looking for a site which wouldn't require
extensive cleaning, even way out in the "outback" BLM area and found
many or most of the sites to be unusable or even dangerous to park
(note - I looked around the perimeter areas rather than in the
central parts which might be better). I finally settled on a site
next to the canal where it took me several days to clean it up to
make it livable; for some of the garbage, I dug a pit and buried it
while for some of the other junk (including parts of a metal desk,
parts of an RV stove, parts of an RV furnace, larger plastic gas
cans, fence wire, to name some of the identifiable stuff) I just
concentrated it in a pile off to one side out of the way.
>
> I understand some people bought the Slabs a few years ago with the
intent of developing it or otherwise capitalizing on it, but it
failed for lack of clean-up money. Whether this is true or not, I've
worked as a consultant to land developers for site preparation and I
roughly calculate it would require one-half to a million dollars to
clean up the Slabs. This is not inclusive of the adjacent BLM
property.
>
> While I definitely see the attraction of Slab City with its
quietness (Marine munitions not withstanding), open skies, comradery,
and freebie cost, I was turned off by the environmental degradation
of the site. Hell, I drove 3000 miles to get there. I shall not
return.
>
> At 2:02 +0000 10/11/2004, trapczar2002 wrote:
> >Coalbunny I have to agree with you although I have not traveled to
> >the slabs or to other places in the south I have picked up my share
> >of trash !! It never seems to fail that at some of my favorite
places
> >there are beer cans, broken bottles and other trash that has to be
> >cleaned up !Some of it of course can be burned but I always bring
> >back more than what I took ! My friends and I have filled a pickup
> >truck and driven it 50 miles just to be able to dump it at a dump
or
> >at a bin site ! Yes some may say are you nuts but we think that it
is
> >a small price to pay to keep our kids and others safe and the place
> >nice ! Perhaps it was the Boy Scouts and all that it taught me that
> >makes me this way ,I complain and moan while I get a garbage bag
and
> >my gloves and go to work ! I know there are lots out there who
think
> >the same and I guess it is up to us to keep things as pristine as
> >possible !! Chuck
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