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Post by emptyfox on Jan 22, 2011 1:31:04 GMT -8
This year will be my first concert/live show/festival ever. "Inconceivable!" I know This just blew my fucking mind! (my first festival was the shitshow that was woodstock '99) You will have it so much better than i did. hahahaha
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Post by Snorlax on Jan 22, 2011 7:00:15 GMT -8
Hahaha I'm excited. The only live bands I've ever seen play are my dads and my boyfriends. And those aren't really bands and they are more jam sessions. Haha
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Post by Drew on Jan 22, 2011 7:33:53 GMT -8
leeartlee - I recognize you from the Coachella boards, though I mostly lurk over there. Welcome. As far as camping goes, a controversial choice is Wild Horse, an independently run campground near the Gorge. I'm trying it for the first time this year. It costs a bit more, but it has more amenities. I don't know how much of that you crave. We've discussed it a little bit over here: sasquatchfest.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=camp&action=display&thread=967
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Post by Drew on Jan 22, 2011 7:34:19 GMT -8
And I know some other Coachella boarders tried it last year and loved it.
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Post by leeartlee on Jan 22, 2011 11:21:04 GMT -8
Yeah, I think it's going to be a great experience. Now it's a matter of convincing people to make it up here for this. If nothing else I guess I'll just hit this up solo style.
Thanks for the link too.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2011 17:40:01 GMT -8
Re: Camping/Not Camping
I didn't camp any of the three years I went. Yeah, it's important, but I'm from me so it was too impractical for us to bring camping gear out that far. The hotel situation, though, is not at all good.
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Post by leeartlee on Jan 24, 2011 11:44:58 GMT -8
Bad = no problem. I have stayed at some reeeeeal shit holes. But I'm convinced. Camping this year. If I hate it, than I will know not to do it next time.
Thing is, it's not that I don't like camping (I grew up in Oregon for Gods sake). It's the noise and lack of sleep that will get you....
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Post by ComesWithASword on Jan 24, 2011 11:59:08 GMT -8
It's the noise and lack of sleep that will get you.... Oh... yeah you wont like camping then. Camping during sasquatch isn't actually "camping." It's just passing out in a tent.
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Post by alex on Jan 24, 2011 11:59:42 GMT -8
I know you didn't ask for my 2 cents on this, but here it is. Imagine leaving the festival grounds after the late night ____ set, having to get to your car, driving in a long, slow moving line of vehicles just trying to get to the highway, then driving that painfully boring stretch of road for 45 minutes to get to your hotel. At this point you'll inevitably pass out, but only for about 6 or 7 hrs, because you have to wake up and make the pilgrimage back to the festival to see the early bands.
Imagine doing this 3 or 4 times.
No thank you. I'd rather walk the 2km back to the campground and get a good drunk on so I can sleep through the noise.
Although the shower would be nice.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jan 24, 2011 12:00:49 GMT -8
It's true. The party in the campgrounds doesn't really ever wind down.
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Post by 1sttimer on Jan 24, 2011 12:32:24 GMT -8
I'm bringing a trailer. Hopefully I can block out the noise with shutting the door and some ear plugs.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jan 24, 2011 12:35:46 GMT -8
Don't count on it. Count on party buses with full-on DJ equipment and stacks of speakers. The only way you'll get any sleep in the campground is if you drink yourself to sleep.
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Post by interstateeight on Jan 24, 2011 12:39:14 GMT -8
When you arrive to park and set up camp, look for boring people and park next to them. It's true that parts of the campground get loud and whacky, but I've had good luck before with quiet neighbors.
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Post by alex on Jan 24, 2011 12:44:17 GMT -8
last year it seemed like the farther you ventured toward the center of the campground, the crazier it got. Maybe that's just my perception though.
The Rockstar party trailer, and the multiple white van dance parties were all located around there.
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Post by Pea on Jan 24, 2011 13:18:06 GMT -8
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Post by funnygrrl on Jan 24, 2011 14:34:52 GMT -8
I know you didn't ask for my 2 cents on this, but here it is. Imagine leaving the festival grounds after the late night ____ set, having to get to your car, driving in a long, slow moving line of vehicles just trying to get to the highway, then driving that painfully boring stretch of road for 45 minutes to get to your hotel. At this point you'll inevitably pass out, but only for about 6 or 7 hrs, because you have to wake up and make the pilgrimage back to the festival to see the early bands. Imagine doing this 3 or 4 times. No thank you. I'd rather walk the 2km back to the campground and get a good drunk on so I can sleep through the noise. Although the shower would be nice. That is not entirely correct, since i do stay at hotels during sasquatch, It's like a 25 min drive to moses lake, you can be showered and in bed by 1 or 1:30AM( earlier if Kol are playing.) You wake up at 9:00-9:30 am, you can hit Denny's to carb up, hit safeway to get your food for the day. Drive back rested and relaxed for the big day.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jan 24, 2011 14:38:19 GMT -8
So ok, say that you're a Mormon and you actually leave the festival grounds at night completely sober. You're still on the road with all the other people leaving the fest, many of which will probably be following technicolor vapor trails and herds of unicorns back to Moses Lake.
Not worth it.
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Post by funnygrrl on Jan 24, 2011 14:45:29 GMT -8
Not a mormon, i just don't believe in spending 11 dollars a beer, i load up my mini fridge with beer at the hotel.
Plus traffic is not bad at all, never had a problem.
Don't knock it until you try it.
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Post by stamper on Jan 24, 2011 14:51:29 GMT -8
Not a mormon, i just don't believe in spending 11 dollars a beer if you drink PBR you could save yourself an entire dollar per beer. Drink 10 of em, get the 11th for free. Economics.
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Post by alex on Jan 24, 2011 14:59:10 GMT -8
^haha
to me it just doesn't make sense to leave the site, but then again I've always camped at concert festivals and am about as accustomed to the noise as one can be.
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