Pugsley and Me On Garbage Pickup Patrol in Red Rock Canyon

 

It's my hope that photos of collected garbage would spark others to follow suit and pick up garbage.

Today, it was three grocery plastic bags filled with water bottles, beer cans, cigarette packs and even a road tire tube along State Route 159 via the Surly Pugsley, my friendly two-wheeled, single-speed beast.

My thinking is that if a shlumpy, selfish, self-absorbed shlump like myself can find time and effort to pick up garbage scarring and marring the beautiful Red Rock Canyon, then maybe you can follow suit.

I have to admit it takes anger and that pissed-off feeling inside when seeing the garbage on the side of the road amid the natural beauty of Red Rock that I get into a mental groove of biking the Pugsley and picking up cans and bottles and general trash.

Leadership is not giving speeches. It's living by example and performing deeds that help everyone.

People in Las Vegas are blessed to have the BLM-managed Red Rock National Conservation Area in their back yard. It's both stunningly beautiful and close in proximity.

It was great to meet two Blue Diamond ladies doing their own garbage pickup on SR 159 near the street that leads into the small village of Blue Diamond while I biked home.

Laura and Lynn were out there picking up garbage with pickers and their orange trash bags. Nice work, Laura and Lynn!

They are with Save Red Rock and look for the group's tent at this weekend's mountain bike events at the park in Blue Diamond.

Pugsley and I will be there selling my book, Bicycle Man.