Appalachian Trail Days Festival 2017 - Damascus VA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- Welcome to 2017 Trail Days in Damascus Virginia!
www.traildays.us/
Last year I made a long day trip out of this and could tell there was much missed in the way of evening activities, music, and socializing. This time I spent the night Friday. I made the 6 hour drive down from Maryland and got there about 3PM. I was able to find parking in the grass lot next to One Way Ministry and it cost $20 for the weekend (in and out privileges). There was no parking in the gravel lot across the street closer to Tent City. I went over to the check in tent at the right gate to Tent City and paid my $5 for access to a camp site. The person there said that the quiet side was the open field on the left, medium activity was the woods in the middle, and the party side was on the right. I snagged a field spot and set up my tent and then explored the area. There were lots of very cool woods spots to camp, and many people hanging. Everyone was "tightly packed" to say the least. The right side looked to house very well organized camps of group affiliated hikers. Some of the camps sponsored evening activities like chili cook-offs, others had 'beer-bat'. Yellow Deli had an area to drink tea, eat food, and listen to people playing music. Everyone seemed to have a fire ring. With the weather being hot and humid, the smoke hovered in the woods and drifted around with the droves - literally hundreds, possibly a couple thousand, hikers. I spent quite a bit of time over at One Way Ministries (to eat their most excellent free food Friday night). They had chili cheeze (not to be confused with cheese) dip, all sorts of brownie like things, and ice cream on cobbler. Tables were set up inside and there were plenty of great people to talk to. Got to meet and talk a little with 'Optimist and Purple Mist' who have an outstanding TH-cam site 'Harper's Tarry' for their 2016 hike!
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I also ate 'all you can eat $5 pancakes' there the next morning. Once the sun went down, things got crazy. People were partying everywhere, and the songs, cheers, music, and 'odd smelling smoke' filled the air. The giant camp fire ring for the super crazy tribal bongo dancing was set ablaze (in a fairly unsafe explosive manner) and the dwindled as what looked like senor fire starters had to bail the rookie crew out. Saturday was vendor and parade day for me. Plenty of parade spirit to go around, as well as at least three drones. I'm looking forward to finding the drone footage when it gets posted. Half way through the parade it rained hard. A persistent rain cell crept over our area and it became nasty (and thankfully cool). I ran into Dollar General, who happened to have $6 golf umbrellas!! It was time for me to finish up and drive back home. Just as I got to the car, it started to hail...and hail pretty hard. It pretty much hailed hard the whole way on the drive to I81.
It's always fun to recognize and meet people I know from TH-cam, or have met on the trail in the past, at Trail Days. Big hello to Optimist, Purple Mist, The Blackalachian, The Real Hiking Viking, Odie, and Red Beard.
Don't forget to order your hiker yearbook!
hikeryearbook.com/
www.traildays.us/
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Oh the memories. You actually walked right past where I was campaigning. Looking forward to my 7th yes that's right my 7th AT thur-hike in 2018.
Most awesome! My time will come soon enough...see you on the trail! 😎 Thanks for watching and commenting, keep on hiking!
Genuinely thank you for this! I had never seen any footage of Trail Days -- so this was a unique video to me.
Looks like a blast! Thanks for sharing.
You're most awesomely welcome! It was a unique experience for me as well. :)
Thanks for watching and posting! See you on the trail...
Me and my boyfriend was in this at 8:57 that's awesome! Loved being there!
I had a great time too! Thanks for watching!
Great coverage..saw you at the One Way Ministry $5 pancake breakfast...sat with Captain Crunch ...great stories. Pretty much identical except I stayed Right Side over at Billlville/ Riff Raff/ Miss Janet bonfire area just for the experience. Still drying out my gear! Big thanks to the crew working the Vietnam Memorial "Que...the ribs were amazing...
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Thanks for the kind words! I may try the woods next year. Saw a number of potential good unoccupied spots. Thanks for watching and commenting. KaptainKrunch :)
What a cool looking event! Thanks for the video :) That sure looked like fun!
Definitely a fun event. Oodles of At hikers there to share stories and ideas with. Thanks for watching!!
Great video! Looks like everyone had a great time.
Thanks! Indeed it was wicked fun!
Wow, the insanity! LOL! Odie (the yearbook guy) is crazy, he has a cool bus. An eclectic mix of people for sure. That was quite a storm on your way out.
That bus is short enough to be allowed in Baxter State Park...he made sure it perfectly fit within the regs. Indeed, a crazy dedicated bunch. Definitely had a good time, but would not want to get stuck there for more than a day on a through. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for posting.
Thanks for watching and commenting Chuck!
@ Raezer Rezear: Definitely intense!! Thanks for watching and see you on the trail... :)
Is there a place to car/van camp at Trail Days, rather than staying in tent city?
I do not recall any places for van camping - you may want to email them at traildayschairman@gmail.com and see if there is anything nearby.
KrizAkoni I will do that, thank you.
Fun stuff
Gotta Love it! :) Thanks for watching and commenting. KaptainKrunch - Beware of the Yeti!
The activities reminded me of a miniature BURNING MAN........if you haven't heard of it, check it out...
Indeed, yes, there are similarities! (Big grin) Familiar with Burning Man. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I expected to see you dancing, or maybe sharing a pair of jeans!
LoL, I have an image to maintain...
They may stop the towns folk from giving everyone a much needed bath, but they can't stop nature from doing the job for us.
LoL, thanks for commenting!