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We don't often hike up a mountain that we built ourselves, but that was indeed the case this time at the Greater Worcester
Land Trust (GWLT) Cascades East Earth Day clean-up. The site was among dozens being cleaned by volunteers
taking part in Worcester's annual citywide Earth Day clean-ups.
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Wasting no time, Katie and Assaf head deep into the woods and begin hauling out tires that had been thoughtlessly discarded decades ago. 
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After carrying dozens of tires, Katie and Assaf are in fine form while Stefan carries even more tires through the muck
and up to the trail.
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| Once our tire mission was complete, we switched to scrap metal. Assaf shows off the 1963 Massachusetts license plate we found. Looks like it's been there a while. And Stefan navigates one of our wheelbarrows full of scrap metal out to the trailhead. |
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At the trailhead, other GWLT volunteers had amassed a sizeable pile of trash and were using a sledge hammer to compress the larger pieces of scrap metal before loading them into the truck for recycling. It was the second truckload of the morning. 
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But our mountain of tires loomed largest. After the trucks began hauling everything away, we proceeded to the GWLT Cascading Waters Lodge
with the other volunteers to relax and enjoy a barbecue lunch.
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