Funny thing I found is that a lot of the people I hear promoting the Slabs is the old '60s "peace/love/smoke a joint" hippy crew. Guess they weren't AS environmentally conscious as they claimed.... Carl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 20:05:36 -0700 > From: Fred Stevens K2FRD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Trash > > 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 t o 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. > -- The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done...." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/z1TolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To reply to this message, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Boondocking/post?act=reply&messageNum=7471 Please do not reply to this message via email. More information here: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/messages/messages-23.html <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Boondocking/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
