Looking for a line sitter/tarp runner Friday/Saturday during the festival!!

[BanginBlue]

Things evolve. If line sitters are helpful for the tried and true or even "newbies" who would prefer to be well rested, so be it! I've never bought or sold a number, but live and live, esp at TBG. It's really not hurting anyone in the end.

Psyched for my 9th fest this year. I've been on that line by 3:00 AM most days, and know what? It can be really hard the next day! I can barely make it through the headline closer some nights. So....I get it.

[BuckeyeDog]

Here is a better strategy. Go out and make some friends in the line. Bring them a few malted or distilled beverages or hot chocolate, or sweets. You might earn yourself an invitation to someone else's tarp. The tarp line is just part of the festival experience, but in the long run it doesn't matter. By the time evening comes, folks all move around anyway and no one is sitting, so, unless the field is covered in drenching rain, tarps are irrelevant.
And another strategy. You want to be right up front? Volunteer. You work a few hours per day, get your festival pass paid for, and on Saturday nights PB has, in the past, let all the volunteers hang out in the pit for Leftover Salmon. The only way you would get any closer is by sitting on the stage itself.
Speaking of the stage, here's a question to throw out. Have seen reports that this has been a very good winter for snowfall in T-Ride. Lots of snow means lots of melt-runoff in the spring, and the rivers will be high. They are supposed to be building a new stage this spring. Will the high snow accumulation have any impact?

 Listening to: Staple Singers: Long Walk to D.C.

[landshark]

Here is a better strategy. Go out and make some friends in the line. Bring them a few malted or distilled beverages or hot chocolate, or sweets. You might earn yourself an invitation to someone else's tarp. The tarp line is just part of the festival experience, but in the long run it doesn't matter. By the time evening comes, folks all move around anyway and no one is sitting, so, unless the field is covered in drenching rain, tarps are irrelevant.
And another strategy. You want to be right up front? Volunteer. You work a few hours per day, get your festival pass paid for, and on Saturday nights PB has, in the past, let all the volunteers hang out in the pit for Leftover Salmon. The only way you would get any closer is by sitting on the stage itself.
Speaking of the stage, here's a question to throw out. Have seen reports that this has been a very good winter for snowfall in T-Ride. Lots of snow means lots of melt-runoff in the spring, and the rivers will be high. They are supposed to be building a new stage this spring. Will the high snow accumulation have any impact?

The last thing anyone wants to do on a vacation where you want some sleep in the morning is run errands for some stranger so you could possibly earn some tarpage.....earn?

OK well sorry Mary I tried....

start a new thread you guys ought to give it up already...... how many years now..... love it!

[landshark]

Things evolve. If line sitters are helpful for the tried and true or even "newbies" who would prefer to be well rested, so be it! I've never bought or sold a number, but live and live, esp at TBG. It's really not hurting anyone in the end.

Psyched for my 9th fest this year. I've been on that line by 3:00 AM most days, and know what? It can be really hard the next day! I can barely make it through the headline closer some nights. So....I get it.

  Love and light brother.

[landshark]

AND since this thread is kaput Mary you can sleep in walk to fest, slide on any empty tarp for as long as you wish and when the owners come, introduce yourselves they may ask you to stay, you buy them a beer , or they may ask you to leave and graciously move to another empty...and so on. So girls, sleep the tarps will be there and they will be empty many times over. So fun is the game tarpage not so very important....

sorry Mary this thread is a wash. I know your gonna have a great time

[completejohn]

Buckeye's got it right.  Get to the line early and help in other ways, food, pillow fluffing, coffee, love, etc.  Plus remember, all the tarps are yours if they are empty, and all the full ones are an introduction away!!

Love is fest and fest is love!

[The Goat]

all the full ones are an introduction away!!

Completely right. I've always merrily set my tarp up at the back of the field and then my wife and I go down front and squat on other's tarps for bands we'd like to see up close.

We've always respectfully asked the owner's for permission to share their tarps and made sure to thank them when we left. No one has ever refused us and we've met and chatted with an awful lot of awesome folks.

None of this has anything to do with tarp lines or squatting, but I'm feeling particularly appreciative of all my festivarian brothers and sisters today and can't wait to see y'all in June. Woot!

 Listening to: YMSB - Black Sheep

[FaceOnMars]

[landshark]

  Whats a girl gotta do to get some sleep around here!!!! nope she will not run for coffee, nope she does not want to earn crap, nope she does not want to get up early! GEESH don't you get it. VACATION is a limited number of days for some, so yes, sleep is good.

You hard cores, Vets you yourselves farm this task out to the virgins. Who you kiddin hotdogs each one of ya.

[Hey Mary]

I am not taking any of this personally. I'm old, and not really anxious to run a tarp against young people. I have earned my years, and my money. If I want to spend $100 a day for a tarp runner to get extra sleep, why does it matter?! This probably shouldn't come as a shock, but all the people I know who have been before pay people. They get in town earlier in the week and shake down the campgrounds. I won't be in until late Thursday, hence the runner!

[Australian fan]

I am not taking any of this personally. I'm old, and not really anxious to run a tarp against young people. I have earned my years, and my money. If I want to spend $100 a day for a tarp runner to get extra sleep, why does it matter?! This probably shouldn't come as a shock, but all the people I know who have been before pay people. They get in town earlier in the week and shake down the campgrounds. I won't be in until late Thursday, hence the runner!

Dont worry, when you get to the festival there will be lots of people who will be willing to do the run for you especially if you pay them $100, dont worry. Lots of young folk at tge entrance trying to score cgeap tickets, etc, you will have no problem hiring some able bodies to line sit and run

[landshark]

I am not taking any of this personally. I'm old, and not really anxious to run a tarp against young people. I have earned my years, and my money. If I want to spend $100 a day for a tarp runner to get extra sleep, why does it matter?! This probably shouldn't come as a shock, but all the people I know who have been before pay people. They get in town earlier in the week and shake down the campgrounds. I won't be in until late Thursday, hence the runner!

Hey Mary! You go girl you don't owe an explanation. There are 12000 folks and 10000 ways to do Fest 2000 do it the same every year...LOL! Those are the guys you pay to run. Yes later and closer to fest. Good luck Mary!  I do the same thing. No shame here. Do what it takes to make it smooth runnin.

I have a funny tarp story however. Our runner got drunk, slept in and left with our tarp.LOL!!!!!  1 funny hitch in many years is fairly smooth runnin I'd say. Good Luck!

[gregsfrontporch]

Yes to each their own,

But, is this a touch of Burning Man aristocracy infecting Telluride?

 Listening to: Willie!

[kylers234]

I've noticed that the front tarps have gotten a particularly corporate feeling in the last few years; since paying for a number has become a way of getting a good spot.  I'm happy there's no VIP section; I guess this is as elitist as it gets there.  The other thing about having tarps in front is after dinner they get run over by kids watching the later bands, just tripping over your stuff and blocking your view anyway.

 Listening to: Buddy Guy - Damn Right I Got the Blues

[landshark]

Yes to each their own,

But, is this a touch of Burning Man aristocracy infecting Telluride?

  Rank and file, rank and file and so it goes....... it all shakes out.