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Driving from SoCal?
« Thread Started on Jan 27, 2011, 2:24pm »

Alright well, I've never been to Sasquatch but I really want to go this year. But, I live in SoCal and the distance from the festival is the only thing that might prevent me from going.

So, anybody from California who's been to Sasquatch before, how did you get there?
It's around a 20 hour drive, not to mention gas money, BUT the good thing is if I get a couple other people/friends to go with me we can split the cost of gas (yay carpooling.)

I know flying there is another option, but my dilemma is that I wouldn't want to have to rent a car AND pay for the flight, also, if friends from Cali go with me, the price would be a lot higher per person than if we all split for gas and went in the same car.

So I'm definitely leaning toward driving. Anybody else made the drive? How was it? How long did it take you?

Alright enough rambling, thanks for any input or advice.

P.S. Yeah I'm a newbie. Hi and sorry to introduce myself with a question.

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Re: Driving from SoCal?
« Reply #1 on Jan 27, 2011, 2:32pm »

I know a couple of girls that drove up from San Diego last year, but I wasn't in the car.

i've done the opposite from Vancouver BC twice. Vancouver to Coachella. It's definitely awesome, especially if you don't have to rush at least one way.

The last time we did it in 2007, we drove straight to the festival and did our thing there. After that we took a week to explore. We went to Six Flags, San Diego for a TooL show, San Francisco, and than camped our way up the Pacific Highway all the way home.

It was an amazing experience, and I'd love to do it again.

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Re: Driving from SoCal?
« Reply #2 on Jan 27, 2011, 5:31pm »

Jan 27, 2011, 2:32pm, emptyfox wrote:

You did what I tried to do last year at Sasquatch before my friends bailed on me. Renting a car in LA is much more expensive when the other half of your party bails.

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Re: Driving from SoCal?
« Reply #3 on Jan 29, 2011, 4:36pm »

Thanks for the reply, I've been talking to a couple friends who are interested in going and how to get there. Unfortunately we all have work or school responsibilities on Friday and Tuesday so the long drive wouldn't really be an option. So, it's likely that I'll be flying up there.
Excluding renting a car, what would be the best way to get to the Gorge from Wenatchee (closest airport)... Do they run shuttles from certain locations to the festival for Sasquatch? Or maybe taking the bus there?

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Re: Driving from SoCal?
« Reply #4 on Jan 29, 2011, 4:39pm »

check here.

http://www.cheapticketlinks.org/holiday-....h-festival.html

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Re: Driving from SoCal?
« Reply #5 on Jan 29, 2011, 4:49pm »

Thanks!

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Re: Driving from SoCal?
« Reply #6 on Jan 30, 2011, 1:02am »

Last year, I drove from San Diego. I stayed in San Francisco one night (at my apartment), Portland the next (with a friend), Seattle the next (at my girlfriend's mother's), and then finally to the Gorge. Good times.

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Re: Driving from SoCal?
« Reply #7 on Jan 30, 2011, 3:41pm »

Jan 27, 2011, 5:31pm, LumpSquatch wrote:

Jan 27, 2011, 2:32pm, emptyfox wrote:

You did what I tried to do last year at Sasquatch before my friends bailed on me. Renting a car in LA is much more expensive when the other half of your party bails.

Your friends suck.

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Re: Driving from SoCal?
« Reply #8 on Feb 4, 2011, 6:21pm »

it's not that bad of a drive, good friends and good music usually get you through it.
the crappy middle of nowhere California is the worst part, like past Sacramento to Oregon pretty much kinda suck. there's just nothing to see.

my friend and i came down from Portland and we just powered through and only stopped for gas.

by the time you actually get to Portland driving up you might as well keep going to Seattle and stop there

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Re: Driving from SoCal?
« Reply #9 on Feb 8, 2011, 1:02pm »

I am also driving from Southern Cal for the first time. So does it actually take 19 hours? More or less? my crew and i are planning on powering through. So i want an idea of how long it'll take from LA.

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Re: Driving from SoCal?
« Reply #10 on Feb 8, 2011, 1:06pm »

Nineteen hours is a conservative guess. It's roughly eleven hours from Sacramento to Portland, and nearly five from Portland to Quincy. Depends on how far south yr coming from, I guess, but if it's any further than Fresno I really hope you don't drive fast enough to make it there in nineteen hours.

edit: Oh, I see you said you're coming from Los Angeles. I'd say closer to twenty-one hours.

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Re: Driving from SoCal?
« Reply #11 on Feb 8, 2011, 1:09pm »

And if you end up in Seattle, you're going the wrong way. I really hope people didn't drive all the way up to Sasquatch from southern California and didn't look at a map long enough to realize that Seattle is more than two hours out of the way.

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Re: Driving from SoCal?
« Reply #12 on Feb 9, 2011, 7:50pm »

my friend and i were planning on driving to sasquatch from so cal as well. we changed our minds and decided if we go we're flying...we haven't purchased tickets or arranged our flights yet. sasquatch > coachella? we're debating on which festival to go to.

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Re: Driving from SoCal?
« Reply #13 on Feb 10, 2011, 10:59am »

Well if you don't buy tickets to Sasquatch, like, IMMEDIATELY then you probably won't be going to either one.

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