Make the best of it and heres how (everyone gives a tip)

[Respectfatfrog]

HI Guys

 

so I'm personally gutted about the rain but fuck it you only live once, I thought we could share tips on how to survive the rain and flourish in it

 

one of mine is if your driving back leave a comfy set of clothes and trainers etc in the car and change before you go it will make the journey home a lot easier.

 

My tent is double ended how should I pitch this? im camping in darble

[Dannytc]

I so misread your tent comment!

My only tip is not give a monkey's. It's my week away from life, and I don't care about nothing other than making it the best week ever!

[rpfranks]

I too do the clothes in car tip, awesome changing in to dry comfies for the journey back.

I'd pitch your tent sideways so if any rain does travel down a hill you'll be ok. 

My tip, especially in this weather, is to ventilate your tent at all times otherwise everything will be damp around the edges inside due to condensation. Leave the side flaps open and sleep with the main door slightly unzipped if you have a porch, leave the fly shut. 

[Stooonami]

Furiously masturbate every morning and then consume shit loads of class a's after.

[Respectfatfrog]

1 minute ago, Stooonami said:

Furiously masturbate every morning and then consume shit loads of class a's after.

this happens rain or not

[Respectfatfrog]

2 minutes ago, rpfranks said:

I too do the clothes in car tip, awesome changing in to dry comfies for the journey back.

I'd pitch your tent sideways so if any rain does travel down a hill you'll be ok. 

My tip, especially in this weather, is to ventilate your tent at all times otherwise everything will be damp around the edges inside due to condensation. Leave the side flaps open and sleep with the main door slightly unzipped if you have a porch, leave the fly shut. 

cheers bud

[Stooonami]

Just now, Respectfatfrog said:

this happens rain or not

And I make it through everyday just as well.. why change whats been a good run?

[Respectfatfrog]

2 minutes ago, Stooonami said:

And I make it through everyday just as well.. why change whats been a good run?

there's no running after struggle to walk will be worse with the rain

[jimmillen]

Bin bags!! Lots and lots of bin bags.  Use 'em for protecting your kit from the rain walking in, putting wet stuff in so the inside of your tent doesn't get soaked, sitting down on wet ground, you can even put a bit of rubbish in them & take to the bin.  

[Jamie G]

My advice is not to talk about it while you are there. It will consume your conversation.... Just get on with it.... Drink more jaegar....this isn't cricket.... Rain does not stop play.... 

[p.pete]

Look after your feet - so lots of pairs of socks, don't wrap your trainers in bin bags, and I'm going to buy some preemptive heel plasters as my wellies (hopefully we get to switch to trainers / boots asap) usually scrape the skin off mine

[Padgey]

No such thing as bad weather just bad clothing. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

[blackred]

Spirits, drink a good amount before leaving your tent in the morning and you won't give a shit about the weather. Beer is no good unless you want to waste half the day getting to the required level of drunkenness!

[scaryclaireyfairy]

Pack your clothes in big ziplocks. 

Assume your tent might leak and put your sleeping bag in a binliner when you go out for the day. 

Drink more.  You're gonna tumble in the brown stuff eventually and you might as well be bouncy and lubricated when you do.

 

[Spindles]

No matter what the cost, get muddy boots off with your feet out the door, then stick them in a binbag.  Once mud gets in you're onto a loser, get all your shitty clothes off in the porch (if you have one) rather than getting it into where you sleep and make sure that everything that can be affected by moisture (clothes, rizla, sleeping bag, drugs) are kept well wrapped in plastic on the way in.  Clothes dry, mud picks off, but trying to smoke damp ganja from a concertina of ruined rizla is hard to enjoy.

[scaryclaireyfairy]

Oh and if you see someone topple or about to - help them up.  Which probably doesn't need saying.  I know any time I've lost my footing there were helping arms before I'd even hit the deck but it's the nicest aspect of wet years and it must continue.

[pie_and_a_pint]

Bring and wear sunscreen even if it's not brightly sunny. 

[Janaka]

28 minutes ago, Stooonami said:

Furiously masturbate every morning and then consume shit loads of class a's after.

Surely that's just general life advice, not just for muddy festivals.

[blackred]

Another one, if you have a clash always chose the most upbeat act. You can't be miserable when you are dancing

[JonSnow]

31 minutes ago, Stooonami said:

Furiously masturbate every morning and then consume shit loads of class a's after.

If you even need a festival forum to teach you this important bit of day to day advice common sense, then you are clearly doing life wrong.

[Notamurderer]

Water/snacks in car for leaving. Especially good if stuck queuing to get out.  Learned the hard way. 

[Yokel Again]

Hot n Spicy first thing in the morning. No later than 11am.

[Spindles]

13 minutes ago, JonSnow said:

If you even need a festival forum to teach you this important bit of day to day advice common sense, then you are clearly doing life wrong.

What would you know?  

[sloseph]

keep a little pick me up in your tent, I personally recommend a cheap tray of Tesco flapjack http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=258193605, they're 80p and can survive anything

when you hit the wall and your sat in your tent looking at all your clothes and ruined rizlas trying desperately to find your last pair of dry socks and you find this sugary beauty trust me you will be ok

there have been so many festivals when i'm fighting a crippling come down, all my energy has left me, my feet are in bits and this tray of joy gives me the strength to boot and rally

[amfy]

For those not planning to arrive in the first batch overnight on Tuesday, I'd say only take your tent (and a drink!) on the first trip from the car.

From the pictures to date, and the currently persisting weather, I would say there is a good chance that the ground could be well churned up by mid morning on Wednesday much like 2011.

Given those conditions again I would want to travel as light as possible until I have worked out where I will pitch, and how easy/difficult it is to get there. Then - when you are carrying the main bulk of your stuff after pitching, you'll be taking a direct route, or the best route you have worked out after seeing what the ground is doing.

Unless I had a really really good jumbo wheeled tractor type trolley, right now I would be working out how to manage without it, or how to have the least possible amount of stuff on it. In 2011 ours turned into a dead weight (and ours is actually pretty good (got us OUT in 2007 without a problem!) The trek in that year remains my worst Glastonbury memory by some distance (and I have fell into some kind of cesspit thing in the she-wees in Dance Village!)