Volunteers work to gather, bundle and remove garbage back in early October in preparation for the airlift day.

The volunteers managed to build quite a pile, while leaving the larger stuff for the helicopter to remove.

Jeff Cook of FID helps John Hart of the Kayak Shed attach a cable to an FID steel walkway that had been washed downstream during the 2006 floods.

John Hart works with Jeff Cook to attach the cable in preparation for the helicopter to remove it in November.

FID successfully accessed the car dump at Indian Creek and was able to free-up the car bodies from the bank.

Jeff Cook and Matt Adams of FID cutting Desoto body in half using demo saw.

Airlift Day! Pilot, Wayne Noonan of BPA gives a safety talk to the volunteers on the day of the lift.

Wayne Noonan peers down from the cockpit to watch the positioning of the garbage on the line below the copter.

Working in this dense vegetation was no easy task for the pilot or the volunteers.

Skilled BPA workers guided volunteers as they gathered trash to be lifted from the creek by the helicopter.

Wayne skillfully placed the old car bodies on a trailor donated by Hood River Garbage Service and RGGB of Parkdale.

Volunteers at the off-load site made quick work of adjusting the car bodies on the trailer while Wayne went to retrieve the next load.

Volunteers at the off-load site quickly disconnected the lift cables from the garbage and separated it into the appropriate dumpster for disposal.

Volunteers had their hands full as more and more garbage was pulled from the creek.

Volunteers Rick Ragan and Jamie Gomez examine the rusty skeleton of an old auto that was pulled from the creek.