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Blue
Canyon; Marijuana Garden cleanup
(Oct.
13 - 16, 2005)
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This is as close as we got to a group shot; the days were
substantially shorter, and did not lend themselves to shooting
after dinner.
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The sunset over Blue Canyon Saturday evening. |
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6:30am, the camp still in darkness. |
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Another angle of the Saturday evening sunset over Blue Canyon. |
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Norm cooks the eggs Saturday morning. |
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Keith standing by the fire to keep warm before breakfast on
Saturday morning.
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Tania cooks the bagels.
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Friday night in the crew quarters; Shane laying out the plan
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Kevin Mayer, Captain of Law Enforcement for the Sierra National
Forest, conferring with Tom Williams on the location of the
marijuana garden his group will clean.
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Roger, Crew Leader, giving the safety talk before setting out to
find the Marijuana Garden Saturday morning.
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On the move... |
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Where the
perpetrators (bad guys) made camp while growing the Marijuana.
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Beginning the process of cleaning up. What a gargantuan
mess.
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Filling up the bags.
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An unimaginable mess; the bad guys garbage dump. The smell
was foul, to say the least.
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Allen volunteers for the disgusting chore...
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...of cleaning it up; two hours later. Thanks Allen! You
may well have single-handedly saved the water table from
contamination.
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Tying up the garbage bags for pickup by the helicopter.
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Devon contemplates the job in front of her cleaning up the food
left behind.
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Filling the
nets for pickup by the helicopter.
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Irrigation supplies bundled for pickup.
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And finally hauled away by the Highway Patrol Helicopter.
Thanks to the Central Valley Air Unit of the California Highway
Patrol, and Mike Brown, pilot of "H-40", the Highway Patrol
helicopter.
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