Festival camping etiquette

[doggone]

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This looks like the worst ever for just walking out and leaving everything.
Bike rallies aren't like this now I hope?
While basic tents are cheap enough it seems extraordinarily lazy and wasteful to just leave them along with sleeping bags, stools etc as litter.
As well as the mountains of other obnoxious litter

[Diggs]

The last bike rally I went to was the Farmyard in Helmsley a few years back, and the mess was nothing like that. People picked up all the rubbish around their own tents and fires and put it into black bags. Different audience...
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[Easy-X]

All it would take is for the performers at said festive to go "hey folks! if you pack up you tents and leave 'em by the entrance on your way out we're going to donate them all to aid charities!!!"
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[doggone]

[grr666]

Personally I'd just search for the nearest hotel or AirBNB to the event and stay there, in the dry, with a toilet
and shower available. Camping was fun when I was a teenager but not anymore thank you. I prefer sleeping
in beds and whatnot.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

It just shows that despite all the ‘right on’ talk, young people as a group don’t care about consumerism or the environment any more than the older generation. And they obviously expected someone else to clean up after them. There needs to be a bunch of oldies with placards outside.

[Ste]

[stinkwheel]

Last years Dragon was a bit like that, but that was due to the carnage wreaked by a named force 10 storm that came through overnight. Sustained 100+mph winds and biblical rain. A lot of people just jumped on their bikes and left before they became a casualty. It was 2 weeks before they could get onto the field with a 4x4 to even start the cleanup. That said, there were entire houses lying in the streets/rivers that weekend, never mind tents.

Turns out the best tents are Decathalon pop-ups. Who knew? I even saw vango force 10s with buckled poles.
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[A100man]

[myvision]

I left my tent and all my belongings at Leeds festival one year but that was due to me having absolutely no idea where it was as i was off my face when i set it up then went to the stage.
Couldn't find it all weekend.
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[woo]

I hate camping it felt like I was paying to live as if I was homeless

People say why dont you camp when you go Scotland, im like no thank you mam!
I will gladly happily pay the extra for a warm bed and the ability to shower and store food in a fridge.
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