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Google "Wakarusa mud 2013" and you'll get to see a real mudfest. They had tornado-like weather that year and people actually ended up making art out of the broken tents/canopies!
I think I'd rather deal with mud than an ass ton of dust.
Definitely. Mud doesn't bug me at all (other than the increased humidity). The dust in '11 sucked. I remember that just about everyone had a bandanna on their face.
I think 2011 had more humidity which can be brutal fer sure. But Druid's post of tumbleweeds still has too much green in it fer 2007. No rain. No clouds. And it was my first 'Roo and we were not prepared! We had all of two tarps to try and construct shade between our two cars of totally different size.
I'm still dehydrated from 2007. That's the only time where I ever felt physically unwell on the farm - and I tried to drink as much water as possible.
Post by rexmcartor on May 14, 2015 13:11:26 GMT -5
I think if it got as muddy as those gov ball pics I would just not wear clothes. What the hell would be the point? They would just be mud encrusted and make you colder at night. Just go Adam and Eve style and cover up the genitals, or don't whatever. My friend after our first year in 2010 she said "wearing anything beyond underwear or a swimsuit is to much." Hasn't been that bad last couple years though.
Post by Tainted Opossum on May 14, 2015 13:18:22 GMT -5
I feel like I've been blessed with the years I've gone, as the weather hasn't been too miserable any single year (2008 rain wasn't terrible in retrospect, taught me a lot about the value of quality gear)
Also, in attempt to properly remove head dresses from the festival scene, every parent attending roo this year should wear a head dress. No I'm not talking about you young parents or parents who have young adult kids but are still awesome young minded people, I'm talking about the Melvins! Ringers! $3 bills! People who showed up last year for EJ after they heard about the good time at Macca! People who spend money at the brooers tent to sample but not get drunk on more than one day! People who spend more than $200 at the VIP Hill Cash bar! People who bring a grill that has to run on a full sized propane tank! People who ask why Eric Clapton hasn't ever played the farm! People who emailed Superfly about the refusal policy on the Selfie Stick! People who breathed a sigh of relief at the first line of the lineup! Every one of you, head dress! June 16th would be first complete day of the end of the head dress atrocity at the farm.
Yeah, head dresses are cringe-worthy and need to stop. It was fairly well covered around here when there was the FLips related incident. I don't think it's its own thread, though...
2004 was probably the year that sticks in my mind as the worst mud:
My friend Dusty, who took me to my first 'roo in 2006 - God bless his heart - was on the farm in 2004. He still calls it The Sweltering Mud Fest. I can understand why from the pics I've seen and the stories he's told.
Why do I not see one pair of rainboots in either of these photos? What is wrong with people?
It was the third year. Festivals weren't everywhere like they are now. There was no inforoo. People didn't know what to expect.
Those photos really blow my mind. Living in NOLA, we have had Jazzfest my whole life and I have never thought twice about having rainboots with me at any festival. I mean the fairgrounds get fucking nasty. BUT, I understand completely what you are saying. Plus, Bonnaroo only being in its third year, no one might not have known that would happen even with all that rain. Fucking crazy.
It rained pretty bad 1 day in 2005 and I wasn't prepared and only had flip flops. Needless to say I lost one of them due to the mud and ended up walking around barefoot all night. It's amazing I didn't get some weird foot fungus or something!
It rained pretty bad 1 day in 2005 and I wasn't prepared and only had flip flops. Needless to say I lost one of them due to the mud and ended up walking around barefoot all night. It's amazing I didn't get some weird foot fungus or something!
It may just be dormant, biding its time, waiting to strike. Just you wait, sometime soon you will be diagnosed with Bonnaroo Foot Syphilis...
yeah, great name. And from the "girly fashion thread", right after I typed it, I thought "Raging Granny Flaps" would be a great name for a heavy metal band comprised of post menopausal women.
2004 was probably the year that sticks in my mind as the worst mud:
That was my first year and there has not been a year that comes close to 04 as far mud is concerned. They also had over 100,000 people there easily, which made it worse. Mind you, the farm was still a farm at that point, so it didn't smell that great. I still have memories of watching people stating that mud. I wish I could have unseen that!
Still...mud or no mud...the terrain is still a flat farm. Unless you're completely uncoordinated...walking shouldn't be too much of a problem. You know...because most of us have been doing it for a while.
Still...mud or no mud...the terrain is still a flat farm. Unless you're completely uncoordinated...walking shouldn't be too much of a problem. You know...because most of us have been doing it for a while.
You would think, but in 04 it was so thick to walk through that it would take a person double or triple the time to get to where they needed. It was like trying to trek through snow with many parts slick as well.
Still...mud or no mud...the terrain is still a flat farm. Unless you're completely uncoordinated...walking shouldn't be too much of a problem. You know...because most of us have been doing it for a while.
You would think, but in 04 it was so thick to walk through that it would take a person double or triple the time to get to where they needed. It was like trying to trek through snow with many parts slick as well.
Haha....I win again. Thanks Buffalo for all of the training.
It was the third year. Festivals weren't everywhere like they are now. There was no inforoo. People didn't know what to expect.
Having 6 years of festivals behind me by the time I got to Bonnaroo made all of the difference.
This entirely. My first Roo wasn't until 2013, but even without Inforoo I knew more or less what I was getting into since I had attended multiple fests a year (all camp outs) since 2007. I think I'd done like 10 fests by time I got to Bonnaroo.... Somewhere around there. Maybe just under, idk for sure, but they happened.
It has been raining around here (I am near the farm) the past few days. My grass had started to dry up so I was getting worried about a very dusty year. Hopefully, we get some moderate rain over next 3 weeks.
