Howdy Folks, Welcome Home to Pennsylvania

ALL PEACEFUL BEINGS are welcome to the

Gathering of the Northern Tribes
August 10th - 19th
Allegheny National Forest
North West Pennsylvania

Come prepared to camp and be self sufficient. Bring your own bowls,
cups, utensils, personal water containers, water jugs. Bring drinking
water and/or personal filtering gear if you can. Tents or shelter,
camping equipment, sleeping bags, blankets, mats, flashlights and
extra batteries, camp shovel, camp tools, rope. Snacks for your tent &
friends. Bring green energy for the magic hat and some bulk food for
the kitchens. Stuff to share. Prepare for warm days and cool nights.
Bring rain gear, layered clothing, hiking footwear, sunglasses,
sunscreen & a hat. Bring toiletry supplies including extra toilet
paper, menstrual necessities, biodegradable soaps & shampoos, first
aid supplies. Bring acoustic instruments, drums.

Please bring bags to take out your trash & recyclables. Please remove
any trash or recyclables from the gathering site any chance you may
get. Cleanup starts when you get there!

Please do not bring any firewood into the Allegheny National Forest.
Firewood brought onto the Allegheny National Forest (ANF) can only
come from Warren, Forest, Elk and McKean counties. ALL OTHER FIREWOOD
(FROM ALL OTHER PA COUNTIES OR FROM OUT OF STATE) WILL BE CONFISCATED
BY FOREST SERVICE PERSONNEL, CHECKED FOR THE EMERALD ASH BORER, and
THEN BURNED.

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Rap 107 - Gathering Consciousness

Please protect this Beautiful Land.

¢¾ Walk softly. Harm no living thing. Harmonize - Blend in. Use only
down, dead wood. Cut
no living trees. Preserve the Meadows¡¦camp in the Woods. We are
caretakers of this land. Everyone sharing makes a strong Human Tribe!

¢¾Please Protect the Water Sources by staying out of DELICATE spring
areas. Avoid camping, peeing, shitting, washing above spring areas.
Keep ALL soap out of streams, springs, creeks or the river! Use a
bucket to take your bath at least 200 feet away from the water source.
To be certain drinking water is safe: boil it!

¢¾Use the slit trenches or covered latrines - cover your paper & waste
with ashes or lime, wash hands after. Break the fly/illness
connection: shit-fly-food-you! Dig no shitters near water areas or
kitchens. Protect our Health!

¢¾Use your own cup, bowl & spoon! Wash them after eating and rinse in
bleach-water.
Visit C.A.L.M. if you feel ill - especially if you have a contagious
disease - or are injured.

¢¾Camp Together - Establish neighborhoods. Community Fires only! ~ Each
with 5 gallon
bucket with water and shovel for Fire Protection. If you are the last
to leave a fire PUT IT OUT! Please, NO Fireworks! Watch your gear: Be
Responsible ~ "Tempt Not Lest Ye Be Lifted From."

¢¾Pets are discouraged but if you must bring them keep them fed, on a
leash and out of the
kitchens, springs, fights & packing up. Clean up their poop. Love them.

PACK IT IN - PACK IT OUT !!!

¢¾Cleanup begins when you arrive. Bring in only what is necessary.
There is no janitor here¡¦you are the cleanup crew. Separate garbage
for recycling. Please don't litter. Compost in pits only.

¢¾You are the Gathering! Participate in Shanti Sena (the peace keepers
council), activities, councils, work crews, workshops. Volunteer
wherever needed: kitchens, welcome home, fire watch, parking lot,
water runs, wood cutting, shitter digging, supply, front gate, etc.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T your Sisters & Brothers energies.
Keep the Balance: Earth, Sky, Trees, Water & People!

¢¾Alcohol is Discouraged, Weapons are Inappropriate, Violence is
contrary to the Spirit of the Gathering. Please take no photographs or
videos of people without their permission. Discourage Drug Abuse.

¢¾Buying and selling endangers our legal right to be here. The Magic
Hat is our Bank, donate early to fund our needs. The Magic Hat goes
around at mealtime circles and with the Magic Hat band. Our power
together is many times our power separated.

¢¾Enjoy the Rainbow with an open heart and you Will see the Vision.


Rap 701 - Happy Trails
¢¾In preparation for leaving¡¦Pack up all your trash/recyclables and
take it away. Take it far
away. Do not impact the small towns near the gathering.

¢¾Dismantle and disappear your encampment. Pick up your litter. If you
don't someone else will have to. Vanish ALL traces.

¢¾ Fill in your local latrine and compost holes solidly with lime and
soil. Remove string and twine from tree limbs. Break up hardened
ground with shovels or picks for future root growth and moisture
catch. Intermix humus from forest ground if possible.

¢¾NATURALIZE! When an area is clear and clean scatter logs, branches,
leaves to look
natural. Disappear trails, renew forest habitat. Water systems are
removed, cleaned and stored for next year.

¢¾Help with disabled vehicles, fully dismantle ramps and bridges. Water
bar steep places to
prevent erosion. The final crew re-seeds with appropriate vegetation
to complete the process.

¢¾Transport as many riders as possible out of the area. Treat local
folks with great kindness.

¢¾Drive safely and share this love wherever you go.

¢¾¢¾¢¾WE LOVE YOU!!! ¢¾¢¾¢¾

Notes on this site:

¢¾ Please avoid setting up kitchens, camps, or digging any holes
(compost, grey water, latrines) in the low lying areas of the
gathering. While these areas may appear dry, the water table can
rapidly rise during rain. Stay high, stay dry.

Directions:
From the East, via Sheffield PA:
Go to Sheffield PA, One tenth of a mile from the end of Route 666
(where it meets Route 6) there is a Uni-mart gas station.Turn onto
this road and cross over the bridge. Continue onto High St (State
Road, SR2002)and follow for 11.2 Miles. Make a left onto FS116. Make
an immediate right onto FS119, follow for exactly 5.8 miles to FS552.
Follow FS552 to designated parking areas. Welcome Home!


From the West via Warren, PA:
I86 East to US62 South, follow to Warren PA. Continue on Market St 0.3
miles, Turn right at Pennsylvania Ave (US6, Business Route, West),
travel 0.2 miles Turn left at Hickory St Bridge, proceed 0.1 mile,
slight left at Crescent Rd, 0.4 mi, Continue very briefly (150feet) on
Mohawk ave, continue onto Pleasant Drive(SR3005). Follow signs toward
"Hearts Content Recreation Area" Follow Pleasant Drive for 11.1 miles.
Make a left on SR2002. Keep following signs for "Hearts Content".
Drive 5.8 miles, passing "Hearts Content". Make a right onto FS 116,
make an immediate right onto FS119, follow for exactly 5.8 miles to
FS552. Follow FS552 to designated parking areas. Welcome Home!

Please drive slowly on all roads, especially on SR2002 and ALL FOREST
ROADS as road conditions are poor in some areas and can be unsafe even
at moderate speed.

WELCOME HOME!

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WE LOVE YOU!
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do they have this every year at the Allegheny National Forest? i would love to go this year but im busy that week.

 

THis is the first one

 

aaww shoooot. well yall should definently have it at the same place or at least in western PA again. ^_^ have fun!!!

 

this is NOT the first regional at Allegheny.

 

I have to tie up some lose ends and I'm ready.

Would I be of any help if I came early? I saw a phone number for people who wanted to help but I can't find it anymore.

 

i'm sure seed camp could always use two free hands. i may end up going last minute because my car is giving me issues that may prevent me from driving up to NY.

 

It's better they happen to you at home instead of on the road.

 

if anyone needs a ride from the northeast to PA message me...i need riders!

 

i'm SO there.

 

Fat Kids and Shady Grove Rock! Loving you.

 

Nugget I'm around the Chicago area. Any chance we can meet up and ride together?? peace and much love- Sarah

 

FS 2002 is ripped up for a few miles between Warren and right up to FS116/119. So if you have a low ride, or doing a balancing act on your motorcycle like I did, it is best to go into Sheffield. I found the people and directions are much kinder from there as well.

 

I'll certainly see what I can do...not sure if I'll be able to wiggle ou of things enough to get there. This time.

 

Thanks, yer Kinglyness. We do have a low ground clearance vehicle, and will probably be loaded to the tits. See y'all Sunday.

 

does anyone have an idea of how long clean-up will last? i won't be able to get out there after the end of the month.

 

I was going, but I guess.. I might not be now.

We lost one of our riders and now we ain't got the cash to make it there, especially since by losing her, we lost her car which was a million times better on gas then my POS car.

So, if anyone will be passing through Virginia --- we wanna go!!! I'm off this entire week with nothing to do, we would just need to be back by the 18th..

 

We just drove all the way up and down I-81 thrrough VA. Wouldn't have had room for another human with the baby abd the dog, though, without serious re arranging, and we had to leave Friday morning. Turtle soup was the Happening Kitchen...44 seemed to lack focus...lacked something, anyway. Fat Kids put out a lot of good food, but was in even more in need of ambiance than 44.

All you Anti-Permit Fundamentalists, let it be known that the District Ranger was all about taking our side against the DC crowd and not requiring a signed NCGUP, untill he got word of the individual who was duct taped at Front Gate by one of our Fine Little Hawk trained Guardians, then released and beaten with a baseball bat. And there were still people who wanted that gathering to be another New Mexico, and invite the riot police in to shove us into paddy wagons over this piece of paper.

Oh, yeah, Clean up. Last weekend was the big weekend, by the 1st part of next month there probably will still be trails in need of water barring, &c, but I doubt that anybody will be left on site. I would think any workers lest in the woods by that time will be camped at Heart's Content.