Did You Camp @ Half Moon Kitchen @ Pa. National In 99??

hahaha yea i remember pieman was in bad shape there, and hed sleep sitting up somehow snoring loudly..i mean i can see sleeping sitting up if your in a chair with a back.. but just sitting on the ground asleep, what kept him from just falling over? i never could figure that out
this is cool remembering more and more but that gathering every second

alegheny has always been so good to us, we really desperately need an alegheny regional soon

 

it was a way beautiful forest...the air was perfect for bubble blowing!! After our remarriage we spent the whole nite (June 26th) doing 2 1/2 ft soap bubbles...doing raps about how we were 'escapees from the Cartoon Castle and we had the soup but it wasn't the soup you eat, it was the soup you blow bubbles with (but shhh it's all a conspiracy...a conspiracy to kill the hippie mace)' and the next thing we knew folks were trying to worship the bubbles but we had to tell them it was better to whoosh the bubbles...broke up Agro camp that nite, we did...the bubbles tripped their brain cells & they forgot to be Agro!!!

 

He was on pills there, he told me , he was in pain & someone gave him some painkillers, i remember him nodding out too, i was worried about him & have wondered about his health.

 

hahaha beautiful

yea thats an amazin forrest, i spent over a month wanderin it b4 1 of the regionals, camped all over there..finaly gave up lookin..and dont ya know it..i was camped at the supply trail head taco mike showed up right were we were camped and we'd found it entirely by instinct...no dorections no nrumors nothing but spirit
we parked at the top of this steep hill i had to jump my vw bus into..and somehow filipe got his bus up in there
ever try jumping a vw bus? everything inside wnt flying..it was crazy...but was the only way i could get er up in there..damn porcupines got my stash too

 

ok, how about the over presence of rattle snakes at that gathering

 

overpressence? there were a good number..most went away..i did see a copuple..on the rock near my tent near the trail & stuff they were pretty mellow..well the 1 that bit filipe sicked bigtime 4 sure

 

they were everywhere, i went to shit several times as my dog ran around & you could hear them, because he was running around, i thought for sure that he or i would be bitten. But just that one brother from kiddy village got bitten & they called in a hellicopter to fly him out.

 

yea they shoulda maybe sooner but just the fact that calm had him doin ok that long without sendin him outside for treatments a testimate to calms skills, but they maybe shoulda evaced him sooner even thohe ended up ok..

 

CALM folks coulda pulled him through it. we didn't see any snakes by our kitchen...guess we scared 'em away. handy info:dogs handle snake bites much better than humans. as long as the bite is not on their chest, all you really need to do when a dog is bitten is give benedryl, offer plenty of water (our dog perfers ice) and watch the dog. Our dog has been bitten 2ce just patroling the yard.

And on Pieman, his health is still not good.

Ya know what? we didn't see any uniforms either in PA, until the evacuation and even then they just walked by...

 

pa has always been very freindly to us
b4 that one...2 of the fs whod been commin to council took rainbow names..there was bibs..and umm something bird
but yea calm had 4 sure gotten him through..but even after evac he was touch n go..although quite possibly calm woulda done better
u remember 1 year some1 broke theyre back..were evaced..checked out of the hospitol..took a cab and tried crawling back to calm...i've broken my back....thats an amazing amount of paun he hadta go tjhrough tryin to get back to bein treatted at calm..

 

This was the first time I had ever heard of the gathering. I was 12 and if I remember this gathering was somewhere near Ridgeway I think, well that is very close to where i'm from, if it wasn't near there it was close to where i was from probably less than an hour, sadly all I really got out of the experience being too young to understand or go was a somewhat overall negative sentiment toward "those rainbow people" from some of the people around me. However, as life usually does things came full circle and I now am one of "those rainbow people" and as it has so many times in the past few years a lot of light has been shone on the ugliness, the judgement and the closed-ness that a lot of the people that existed in the place of my origin showed. There will probably never be a national gathering that close again, but I am definetly keeping my fingers crossed for a regional =).

 

yup it was ridgeway
the time i spent a minth there before a reguinal (near tidiout) i went thru rudgeway and a car load of kids threw stuff at us and yelled some shit...
few weeks later at the gathering some1 tackles me in a great big tearfull hug.. i had no clue who it was....
turned out to be the kid whod thrown stuff at me
he had come to the gathering thinkin hed cause alittle trouble with them damn rainbows... and as he found out he already was 1 of em...he had a totaly different and enlightened perception of what rainbow family was...
welcome home and thank you for the warm invite into whats really your back yard

 

Yes, there was some negitive vibs toward us, not so much in ridgway but in St Mary's ( think that was what it was called, it was where walmart was )

 

hmm ive only experienced that 1 incident, over quite a few years..and that was only when i got there over a month b4 anyone else..and like i said his attitude towards rainbow turned around completely once he found out 1st hand what we were about
in general tho allegheny has always welcomed uswith open arms, and even our relationship with fs has been better then usual.. i dunno about now exactly, but in the past the fs had extended an open invite to come back topa anytime
and altho i wouldnt like to see another ocala like situation where pa is always expected to have an anual regional, i'm amazed we havent taken em up on that and had any regionals in the past few years

 

well, this thread is dieing out, so if you had camped there at half moon, send me a pm here. peace

 

repost on agr maybe...probly a better chance of findin folks there