Beach Sweep / River Sweep 2017

On Sept. 17th, we hosted another Beach Sweep / River Sweep at Lake Thickety.   We have hosted these several times since 2007.   It is a statewide event with many groups and individuals participating.

Our target was Lake Thickety in NW Cherokee Co.   Over the course of 3 hours, we picked up quite a bit of trash.  Some of the most prominent items were plastic bottles and 2lb. propane tanks.  The most unusual item in my opinion was a almost full container of acid.

Every year I walk away angry and confused as to why people trash the environment the way they do..

Random pics

Cleaning up my memory card, and I liked these.

Gotta love the old country stores, which are rare these days. This one is in York Co.


Hiker karma? Note the walking sticks left for others..

"If you hear the dogs, keep going."

Wow..amazing, I was moved beyond words...

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Its not the heat, its the humidity.......????

Hard to tell the difference! I just spent my annual week of training (for work) at the South Carolina Fire Academy (SCFA) and let me tell you, it was hot as hell. The Academy has an electronic weather station to monitor the temps. as well as the humidity, and they also have in place a color coded flag system that basically dictates how long you can be in full turnout gear in the heat. It goes from green to black, with black being the worst. All week, except Friday, we were on black flag by lunch time. Imagine a heat index of 105 with about 60lbs of gear on, and fighting a fire. When we would detach our SCBA regulator from our face mask, sweat would poor out from the accumulation.
Luckily, we only had two days scheduled for fire fighting and one day each for Haz-Mat, Confined Space Rescue and Extrication.
This was the 2nd year my team (night shift) had been through the fire fighting class, however, the rest was new to us. The day shift group that was there had had it all before.