PUBLISHED ON Thursday, July 31, 2008 AT 12:20AM
A clean slate
Yakima Herald-Republic
A slew of civic-minded four-wheelers and snowmobile enthusiasts turned out in force Saturday in the Ahtanum, but not to play on the trails -- to clean them. This load of trash was just part of the four pickup loads hauled out at the All Wheelers Off Road Club's Ahtanum Trails Clean-Up effort, which drew nearly five dozen volunteers from such clubs as the Eastern Washington Off Road forum, Lower Valley Canyon Crawlers, Jeeping Nomads, Peak Putters, Ridgerunners, Tuff Enuf Cascade Crawlers, Outlaws, Washington ATV Association and the Pacific Northwest 4WD Association.

Photo by Clay Graham, All Wheelers Off Road Club Collected garbage begins to pile up at the headquarters for last weekend's Ahtanum Trails Clean-up, where some five dozen four-wheeling enthusiasts and their families gathered and hauled out about four pickup loads of garbage from a number of the Ahtanum's ORV trails.