On Saturday, September 8th, the Coalition of American Canyoneers hosted a conservation project at Sundance Canyon in the West Clear Creek Wilderness area of the Coconino National Forest, AZ. Unable to use the CAC’s portable pressure washer within a wilderness area we removed the graffiti the old fashioned way with elbow grease.
A group of twelve awesome volunteers hiked into […]
On Saturday, July 29th, the Coalition of American Canyoneers (CAC) held a conservation project at Monkeyface Falls in Southern California. As part of this effort, 31 volunteers removed trash and graffiti from both the canyon and surrounding area. We were able to use the CAC’s portable pressure washer to remove nearly every trace of the canyon’s graffiti. […]
On Saturday, March 19th, the Coalition of American Canyoneers and the BLM joined forces on a clean up of the Sandthrax campground in the North Wash area of Utah. Twenty-five (25) CAC members and volunteers helped in the effort. Fire rings were placed in non-flood plane areas, a registry box added and a new kiosk sign was installed. After a […]
Three separate service projects were run by the Coalition of American Canyoneers (CAC) this President’s Day weekend, two within Death Valley National Park and one nearby. Kirk led 14 folks into Golden Canyon for a trash and poop clean-up. CAC supplied the trash liners and gloves and folks went after it. When it was finished, the results were a surprise. The […]
In conjunction with Death Valley National Park (DVNP), the Coalition of American Canyoneers (CAC) is planning two public service projects: one on Saturday, February 14th and one on Sunday, February 15th. A third project, outside of the park, will occur throughout the entire President’s Day weekend.
On Saturday morning, February 14th, the plan is to hike this […]
On Saturday, April 5th, 2014 CAC volunteers assisted the BLM in service projects in Robbers Roost. The projects were planned by the BLM Henry Mountains Field Station with the CAC organizing the volunteer side of the project. The CAC volunteers were from Utah and Colorado.
One project involved cleaning up the Granary Springs campsite, including disassembling and removing two old wooden structures that […]
Over the past 5 years, the Toroweap park ranger had noticed a dozen tires plus a variety of other debris at the base of Toroweap Overlook (www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/tuweep.htm). It is quite difficult to get from the overlook to where the trash has come to rest. Hence it was not safe to try to carry the trash up […]
