Reynolds Road Shave

Saturday's main activity for me was the participation to a very successul CITO Event (my 3rd one), Reynolds Road Shave, hosted in Sierra Azul OSP by Shadow101.
The Santa Cruz mountains are beautiful. Unfortunately, some people have a tendency to consider that throwing their garbage in the ravine is the best way to dispose of it, despite the "no dumping" signs.
And this means that along the public roads in those mountains, you will find that the ravines are totally trashed. I've noticed three different types of trash.

• Free and scenic areas are always littered with bottles of beer or alcohol. People gather there to drink and they leave the place trashed.
• Ravines along free access road are trashed with garbage bags. People drive up those roads with full garbage bags in their cars and just dump there when they find a good spot for doing this.
• Then, there are the big stuff that people don't know how to dispose of or just can't afford paying for disposal services. Ovens, fridges, TV, old cars, doors, etc...
  

It's really sad to see those beautiful areas treated this way. Unfortunately, dealing with garbage is very expensive. I think we pay about $45 every other month for garbage collection, and this does not cover large items, nor extra garbage. And it keeps increasing. Unfortunately, not everybody is able to pay that kind of fees and it forces people to find alternative (and bad) solutions.