Trashed Alaska

Now that the snow is mostly gone, we ride everywhere. That includes to functions, parties, and parks. A few short days ago a friend and I rode out toward Earthquake Park. There's this large pullout where you can park and view the city. It's a beautiful view and one worthy of seeing many times over.

While we were there we walked around the area a bit. Now that Mother Nature has given us some warmth to the sun and melted much of the snow, the trash is now surfacing.  There was trash everywhere.

Trash in the trees, trash on the ground, trash everywhere.

There's plain old junk, the standby Safeway plastic bags that fly in the wind, and then the really disgusting stuff.

What is wrong with people? They should keep their private life at home, and pick up their trash. It would be nice if they had a little pride in their community rather than the need to trash it.

Absolutely disgusting trash, and there was more than one.  Get a room, folks.

But putting that piece of the equation aside, this week is the Anchorage Chamber's Citywide Cleanup Week. Thank you to all those volunteers who are out cleaning the streets and parks and bagging up a winter's worth of other people's trash and filth.