End of May clean up... Riverview Forest

Sunday night Caitlyn called me wanting to know if we could go to "your forest" as she puts it to me, lol, and clean up. I replied "You have school tomorrow", to then find out her school has a Pro-D Day that day. "Sure", I said to Caitlyn.

I picked Caitlyn up from home at 9am and we made our way to Riverview Forest. We parked and started at our usual location. Caitlyn seem to be enjoying today a bit more than when we were there on Mother's day.

The other week we picked up her own safety vest, gloves (so her tiny little hands weren't disappearing in them) and cherry picker so we both had one. She apparently was excited to "try them out", lol. Previously she was using my equipment.

If you know Caitlyn, her attention to one task can sometimes run short so I have to keep things fun and interesting for her so I tend to send her into brush so she can climb over logs, etc. Every time we are by the embankment along Lost Creek she always wants to go down. This time was no different. I struggled to let her go down as it was pretty steep but we accessed the options and found an ok spot for her to go down as long as she agreed to go down on her backside.

Here is a video of her second trip down to collect a couple items:
(Please excuse my rude gum chewing, my deepest apologies, I know its not very appealing. I didn't realize I was doing it.)

Once we did as much as we wanted we headed back to the main entrance to get rid of the collections. We walked around for about an hour and half to forty-five mins.

Here is a video on some of the things we collected:
(We tend to collect a lot of cigarette butts, doggy-doo-doo bags, booze cans/bottles, broken glass, misc. garbage, etc.)

We headed back towards Lost Creek before going back to the car as there was a broken lawn chair at the bottom of the embankment Caitlyn kept climbing which she wanted to pick up. Once we got the chair Caitlyn tied ribbon around it and placed it by a Kiosk for the city of Coquitlam staff to come pick up.

Here is a video on Caitlyn's 3rd climb down the embankment to collect the chair this time.
(We tried to go down the other side but we couldn't not find the access point from the main trail. We ended up crossing over and hiking up the embankment to the same side we were on previously.)

Here are some pictures of our day!!

The start of our collection

First trail started

Picking up more doggy-doo-doo bags

exiting the crime scene

A bottle we found buried. We pulled it out of the ground.

Snap shot of Cait on the trail.

Cait picking up more garbage.

Cait's first decent.

Almost at the bottom.

Caitlyn carefully retrieving some beer cans. Trying not to step in the creek. (She knows she is not allowed to.)

Retrieving cans.

On her way back up.

Still climbing.

Marking the chair.

Making sure the broken leg is secured