All the Bizarre Items Found After the Snow Melted at Breckenridge Resort, CO Breckenridge, Colorado, opens for summer activities on Friday, June 14, and it is sure to be a memorable one. Recreational options include scenic chairlift rides, mountain biking, an alpine slide and coaster, ropes course, climbing wall, and more. Related: The 9 Best North American Ski Areas to Visit in the Summer In preparation for the summer season, over 200 employees at […] Industry News Brent Glogau | June 14, 2024 0 Comments
Soldiers and Sherpas to Remove 10 Tons of Trash, Human Excrement, and 5 Dead Bodies From Mount Everest A massive cleanup operation has been launched by the Nepali Army on Mount Everest ahead of the annual climbing season. The campaign aims to collect tons of garbage and human remains from the world’s highest peak. 12 Nepali soldiers and 18 Sherpas have arrived at Everest Base Camp to start this year’s Mountain Cleanup Campaign. They will be retrieving an […] Climbing CragBrains | April 17, 2024 0 Comments
Lake Tahoe Trashed by Fourth of July Revellers Every year, thousands of people descend on Lake Tahoe for the Fourth of July celebration, and every year without fail, they leave behind a huge mess. Although this year was a little different, the crowds were nowhere near as huge as normal, there was still a fair amount of trash left behind. Thankfully, there’s a group of dedicated volunteers just […] SnowBrains | July 8, 2021 1 Comment
VIDEO: Effort to Remove Thousands of Pounds of Trash From Beneath Lake Tahoe’s Surface Begins This Week [arve url="https://vimeo.com/548002580"] SnowBrains | May 12, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Volunteers Cleanup 22 Tons of Trash From Vail, CO Highways | Almost Double 5-Year Average About 1,000 volunteers took to the highways around Vail, CO last week for their annual clean up to remove trash from the medians, ditches, and sides of the roads. In total, they removed thousands of bags of trash, debris, and waste weighing more than twenty two tons. Related: 8,200-Pounds of Trash Pulled from Lake Tahoe This is almost double the five year […] SnowBrains | May 11, 2021 0 Comments
Two Surfers Start Company To Tackle Garbage-Ridden Beaches On a quest for epic waves and golden beaches, surfers Andrew Cooper and Alex Schulze headed to Bali, Indonesia in 2015 for a post-college trip of a lifetime. Unfortunately, what they found instead were garbage-ridden beaches with nothing but water bottles, food containers, and plastic bags for miles. While the overwhelming sight of endless trash left them horrified, it also […] Surf Emily Crofton | August 21, 2020 0 Comments
Massive Trash Cleanup in Truckee and Lake Tahoe, CA Whilst in the middle of a global pandemic, record numbers of Tahoe locals gathered to help clean up trash from North Lake Tahoe and the town of Truckee. On June 6th, over 120 people registered for the 25th annual North Tahoe Business Association Clean-Up Day. It is estimated that the turnout was the largest ever for the event. Just like […] Ryan Flynn | June 25, 2020 0 Comments
2 Lake Tahoe, CA Residents to Swim the 72-Mile Shoreline Picking Up Garbage Two Lake Tahoe residents are taking the lake’s long-time trash problem into their own hands by swimming the 72 miles circumference of Tahoe and picking up garbage on the way. Related: Lake Tahoe Trashed on 4th July | 1,875-Pounds Trash Cleaned Up by Volunteers Yesterday Tahoe Dive Center owner Matt Meunier and Clean Up the Lake founder Colin West plan […] SnowBrains | September 19, 2019 0 Comments
Sherpas Bring Down 4 Dead Bodies and 11-TONNES of Trash From Seasonal Everest Clean-Up Sherpas have retrieved four dead bodies and 11 TONNES of rubbish in a Mount Everest clean-up as part of a drive to clean up the world’s highest mountain. A clean-up team of 20 Sherpa climbers has brought down five tonnes of litter in from different camps sites above the base camp and another six tonnes from the areas below, said […] Climbing CragBrains | June 6, 2019 0 Comments
Volunteers Remove 25,000lbs of Trash During the Annual Truckee River Cleanup, NV A total of 776 volunteers helped to remove thousands of pounds of trash, invasive weeds and marked storm drains that feed into the river during the 2018 Truckee River Cleanup this weekend, reports the Reno Gazette Journal. You might also like: Lake Tahoe, California Labor Day Cleanup Removes Thousands of Pieces of Trash The volunteers removed approximately 24,450 lbs of trash and 108,810 […] SnowBrains | October 15, 2018 1 Comment
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