First TBF, heard you need to get in line early for tix. What’s the deal? This will be a honeymoon, want it to go as smooth as possible. Thanks for any advice/help.
The line is almost closed! Check the Planet Bluegrass website for any available tix. (only single day tix left?) There are other threads on the on this forum to catch up on the non-availability of passes to TBF this year, and tickets that may come up for sale. Better get moving, good luck! :cheers
I have fest tix and camping. Just don’t understand when people say “need to stand in line in the morning for line #”. Besides customs, what will I go through to get in to fest grounds?
Welcome Peter, I’m pretty sure you are refering to the tarp line. A lone forms every night to be the first one in and thereby have access to the “best” real estate. Check out tarp line threads. I tend to be a tarp hopper, I wander about visiting.
Where ya camping with the new bride Mr. Brown? Just curious! :flower
You are indeed referring to the topic of the Tarp Line, which again, is an event unto it’s self each morning of the festival, and a fine event it is too!
Check out this thread about the Tarp Line. I’ve also bumped it up to the first forum page for everyone else.
Don’t worry about anything prior to this (video included) on the first day of Festival. Many a folk that you’ll be meeting and camping around will have tons of stories and laughs about the Tarp Run and “the line”. If you so desire, and your bride agrees, you too can take a shot at running full speed, in your favorite tye-dye clothing, at 8,750 ft. above sea-level, to the point of not being able to breathe, the other three mornings when the gates are opened to the wonderful sounds of bagpipes! :lol :lol :lol
This is what you’ll feel like should you choose to run a tarp ----> :flight
Auntie Hope :festivarian2 :green
you too can take a shot at running full speed, in your favorite tye-dye clothing, at 8,750 ft. above sea-level, to the point of not being able to breathe, the other three mornings when the gates are opened to the wonderful sounds of bagpipes! :lol :lol :lol
This is what you’ll feel like should you choose to run a tarp ----> :flight
:sunshine
Yep, that’s me, “butt-crack of dawn” ready to run to my favorite spot, ALL FOUR DAYS OF FESTIVAAAAAL!
Tarp #'s and tarp run is a mad scramble in an organized PBG fashion to get front rowish seats. You do not NEED to this to get a great tarp position on the field.
If you have never seen this before I encourage you to get up early and just watch. It is a sight to behold, 100’s of tarps all ocean blue flipping open all at once.
Very cool :thumbsup
The wife and I got Lawson Hill camping. We missed Mary E by 2 days. Just super excited to be coming. We’ll be driving from South Dakota sunday, and out of Denver tuesday morning. Will good camping be available tuesday afternoon? How ‘bout pick up pickin’ in Lawson Hill? Sounds like the other campgrounds get most of the attention.
There’s pickin’ in all the camps :pickin and long time campers all over the place for festi-fun. Some of us are “just a bit” crazier than others and tend to come here and keep the buzz going all year long.
Auntie Hope :festivarian2 :green
PSA: o.k. I set it up… go for it. :thumbsup
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We’ll be arriving Tues. afternoon. What would you guys recommend we do pre-fest? Never been to that part of the world. We would like to check out town, do a bit of casual hiking/ biking. What activities on the fest grounds are we welcome to? What’s “rumballs”? Why am I suddenly addicted to these forums? The info you guys provide is priceless.
Definitely check out the town. It’s a great little mountain town with lots of excellent, local stores that love to get some festivarian support. I know I’ve gone into the festival grounds on Wednesday, but there isn’t much going on there at that time. The volunteers and PBG staff and vendors are still setting everything up, but it’s still worth it, because you won’t see that place with that few people all weekend long.
Rumballs are the unofficial start to the festival. On Monday, a very large cooler is filled with white liquor and fruit (no grapefruit please, the Mayor’s blood pressure meds conflict). It sits for three days and is then brought out on Wednesday afternoon. After a commemorative speech by the aforementioned Mayor, the lucious nectar is ladled out in tiny cups. Have a drink, eat some fruit, and FESTIIIVAAAAAALLLLLL!!!
Telluride Tom will have the complete “Pre-Fest Activities List” available any day now, but we still have a little more than two months before lift-off, so be patient, if you can.
To add to Doc Mike’s post… Rumballs…
It is not only an activity that happens on Wednesday afternoon during Pre-Fest. Rumballs is a community concoction, a cocktail, that could make you choke as hard as Bela Fleck did last year while on stage singing about a stiff cock—tail. (never going to forget that one). House Band’s Closing Tune 2010
It’s served in those tiny little cups for a reason and that reason being, a 20 oz cup gets you swinging in the trees like Cindy Lou’s monkeys.
About that addiction. You have heard about, viewed video, read about, decided to attend and bought tickets for this adventure. You’ve heard others talk about how it changed their lives or may have changed them personally, or it just changed the way they have fun. The beauty of the area is always described in long, drawn out stories and the story tellers face becomes bright, light and happy in a distant way. You want to know that in your heart, you want that smile on your face and you will get it all in June, but for now, this forum is just part of your journey to cure the addiction. Not that you need a 12 Step Program, but look at it this way…
In 12 weeks YOU’LL BE IN TELLURIDE!!!
Son, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. By the way, we know we’re really not helping with post like this. Not one stinkin’ bit! :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol Try joining us for the Hippie From Olema Raido program this evening (www.kwmr.org and play the live stream by the cow) and you can join us in Telluride Tom’s chat room by going to his page (www.telluridetom.com and click on the chat link. just put in a user name and hit ok, it’s that easy.) The Hippie is on air at 6:30 Pacific Time, (7:30 MT, 8:30 CT, 9:30 ET) and the show is 2 hours and goes by quickly, even more so the closer we get to…
FESTIVVVAAALLL!!!
Auntie Hope :festivarian2 :green