I knew you would be …Gonna Miss Yall !
i honestly don’t know what Camp Billy is doing. I haven’t heard of anyone stepping up to ABGAT this year, and since we still ahevnt’ started packing, I’m going to be a wee bit busy! So I guess we’re just rolling the dice and assuming whoever does get there first can get our spots. A little scary, I admit!
Ron, what year did Michael do the accidental ABGAT? :lol :lol :lol
[color=pink]Camp Flamingo checking in!!! Sorry to be so late. We are having a large-ish camp this year, with 16 adults and 5 kids. We would LOVE to have the same spot as last year across from Camp Get Enough and along The Fence. Last year the Tiki Abgat camped there until the Land Grab and then turned it over to Flamingo. I and the A-Man will be there in the Winnamingo on Friday the 10th, hopefully early. (We are hoping to leave on Thurs. after he gets out of his football camp, and drive about 2/3 of the way.) Many other Flamingans will join us on Sat, but David and Teresa won’t be there until Mon. the 13th this year.
Flamingo has $ earmarked for paying for the campground fees for whomever can ABGAT our spot.
Getting SO EXCITED!!!
I’ll abgat the flamingo spot for Friday June 10th…
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Hippie you are rated 5 pink feathers by Camp Flamingo!!!
How can you do that if you’re not going to be there until the 10th? :huh
OOOh, that could be a problem… please let us know…
Ve have our vays podling
:peace
sounds veddy shifty… but good!
I’m working over the podlings in Camp Billy, and we may have an ABGATeer steeping up. but she’ll probably be later than usual…Anyone who is on scene Saturday morning who can help run interference until she secures our usual sites would be an instant hero (and would get repaid…of course)
Oh Gawd !!
Thanks for reminding me of that …was it the same year you and I did the Road Trip up to Alta Lakes ??
Did Michael show up a week early for fest? This story needs to be told…
It may have been the same year, Ron!
Yes, Hope! This was back in '98, before ABGAT became institutionalized (and people thought we should have been for going so early), and back when Ron & Michel didn’t know each other.
As Ron & Michael told the story later, they got to talking in the bathroom, and found out they were both there for Bluegrass. Michael was awfully confused, because here we were 4 days before the festival, and NOBODY was in the Arizona Bowl or Aspen Camp (remember, this is before the merger of those into Camp Billy). When Ron informed him he was off by a week, he was ADAMANT that wasn’t possible. I mean, he builds a guitar for the festival, he ought to know when the heck it is! If you know him, you can picture him arguing with Ron 
Once he knew he was going to be there for another 2 weeks, he took off for like 5 days at Orvis in the meantime, I showed up, and Ron & I took off for some adventuring up at Alta in some pretty deep snow, a supply run to Montrose, and various excursions into drunken debauchery
At least, that’s how I remember it
What a great story. So, this is for outside the fenced area (or the preserve), right? Do you pay for each night until PB takes over?
Correct…you’re allowed to pay for 7 nights (used to be 14), so it makes hauling so much crap and building a small city even more worthwhile
Exactly Who exactly is doing the ABGAT this year on June 4th?
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I had to go back to my Camp and pull out the Town Park Tickets then head over to Camp Billy and SHOW Micheal the Tickets !!
The look on his face was PRICELESS !
:lol :lol :lol I bet the look on Micheal’s face was priceless! :lol :lol :lol I would have put cash on the barrel head to see it too! :lol :lol :lol Oh… I can’t stop laughing…
Lisa D. - this is for the actual and original Town Park camping area that is open year 'round in Telluride. Not the Primitive Area where Camp Evergreen camped last year and not for The Preserve.
For those not in the know…
Micheal is the maker of Shanti Guitars, and he hand builds one each and every year for the Troubadour Winner as the Grand Prize. You just haven’t lived until you’ve heard a Shanti Guitar in the right hands! :medal
Love you guys! Thanks for the full story! :thumbsup
ABGAT RULES!!! :rock
Auntie Hope :festivarian2 :green
Wow, Hope, good memory! :thumbsup While some of the Evergreenites will still be in the primitive area, I’ll be back in the Preserve. I like that area better, plus it has closer potties!
That story is hilarious…I love it! I would have loved to hear that conversation…too funny!
Lisa, it will be good to have you back in the neighborhood…i can’t do the primitive area…i get so confused in there!