Thanks to Suzanne Lipke for putting in the work to get our sign in place 2 years ago and handling the safety class requirement and organization with ADOT! And thanks to Michele Goodman for continuing the hard work and geting this year's cleanup orginised.
Click hereto see the actual location of the sign on a map.
I would suggest you wear boots or some type of high sneaker, long sleeve shirt or jacket, maybe a hat, since it WILL be cool up there in the morning, but should warm up a bit later in the day. We will provide bottled water, so you may want to bring something other than that if you want it. ADOT is providing the safety vests, tools, bags, etc.
Dan J will reserve his companies Dodge Durango, so that we can more easily shuttle people to the work positions, this worked real well for the Fall event in October 2008 in getting us started and finished up a bit quicker and safer.
Those coming from the Phoenix area, we will meet at 8AM at the Baja Gas Station on the SouthEast corner of Ft. McDowell Road and the AZ-87. Departure time, 8:15AM Sharp, so please be gassed up and ready to go. As was mentioned in the threads for the Previous events, you should probaby gas up somewhere else before meeting up, as Bajas prices tend to be on the high-end, this just made a good central meeting point.
Baja Gas Station
10180 N Fort Mcdowell Rd
Fort Mcdowell, AZ
(480) 837-3506
Map Link
Please check the freeway closures to make sure they don't impact you making it to the meet-up location on time.
http://www.azdot.gov/ccpartnerships/new ... /index.asp
It's approximately 70 miles from the Baja to Payson, where we'll stop on the North side of town for a bathroom break at the Maverik location below.
Maverik Country Store & Gas
715 N Beeline Hwy, Payson, AZ
Map Link
After a quick stop and break, we will head north out of Payson, approximately 30 miles and proceed past our mile marker and will be parking at the Long Valley Cafe, which is right on AZ-87 at mile marker 290, approximately a mile north of where our mile marker is.
Map Link
We should arrive at the Cafe at approximately 10:15, so those coming from Flagstaff or areas North, should meet us here if they aren't meeting us in Payson. Michele has some safety items she has to go over with everyone, and then we want to carpool back to our work area and be working by 10:30.
We expect to be completed in less than 2 hours, hopefully by noon, when we'll then return to the Cafe for lunch.
After lunch we'll head back down the hill and stop in Pine for some dessert!
Please RSVP by replying here in this thread or send me an email at thumpu77@hotmail.com ASAP so we can get an accurate count, thanks!
Not sure what this is all about? See the three previous cleanup threads below:
http://www.dynamicminicollective.org/fo ... php?t=3987
http://www.dynamicminicollective.org/fo ... php?t=4865
http://www.dynamicminicollective.org/fo ... php?t=5263
