The Hippies Are Coming!

[eddiememphis]

https://coloradosun.com/2022/04/01/rainbow-gathering-colorad-grand-county-arapaho/

The Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes is planning a 50th anniversary in the Colorado mountains.

50,000 expected to attend. What could possibly go wrong?

[sniper7]

A weeks worth of hail storms would be very welcome��

[kidicarus13]

[emoji304] Should provide for some entertaining news stories. [emoji897]

[Bowtie]

We already have homeless drug addicts all over Colorado. Whats another 50,000

[The Regulator]

I dont think I will notice.

[electronman1729]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1a8rsr0RzZY

[Ah Pook]

Here are some articles from the 2014 Utah gathering.
https://www.ksl.com/article/30557244
https://www.vice.com/en/article/gq8dy4/the-dark-side-of-the-rainbow-gathering

Oh joy, more deadbeat thieves taking over/trashing CO before and after the event. Maybe they will try to do it in Laramer Co again. [cigar]

Glad I'll be in better pastures (AZ) by then.

[bellavite1]

Jesus it will stink up to high heaven...

[.455_Hunter]

Fucking lovely. I remember the previous visits well. Can Grand County close the immediate vicinity roads to non-CO residents for some sort of emergency declaration?

[Sawin]

I hope they hire security. We know it?s a gun free zone and large groups like that could be a target.

[TEAMRICO]

Why does it sound like people I would NOT want to associate with?

[Hummer]

Maybe they'll hold the gathering in Moffat County where they can, you know, commune with the growing wolf population.

[Circuits]

South Park predicted this.

[rondog]

I wonder how many will drop from fentanyl....that stuff is bound to show up there.....

[JohnnyDrama]

?
The Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes is planning a 50th anniversary in the Colorado mountains.
50,000 expected to attend. What could possibly go wrong?

And here?s your answer.


I wonder how many will drop from fentanyl....that stuff is bound to show up there.....

It is a wonder that this ?non-organization? has managed to persist for going on three generations now. I'm sure fentanyl will take a toll. We aren't in the 70s anymore. There are substances around today that will kill you without giving you a second chance.

[DDT951]

Now since there is no organization or members. And this alleged gathering is happing on public land?

It is also legal to shoot on public land as long as the proper distance from other people are maintained.

Maybe the shooting community could have the largest gathering of nonmembers from a non organization to go shoot near them. I am sure they would love the noise next to their camp?

[Aloha_Shooter]

The Rainbow Tribes used to annoy me 20 years ago. Today, I think we have worse residing permanently and voting in the state.

[BPTactical]

The Rainbow Tribes used to annoy me 20 years ago. Today, I think we have worse residing permanently and voting in the state.



Your not wrong buddy

[JohnnyDrama]

The Rainbow Tribes used to annoy me 20 years ago. Today, I think we have worse residing permanently and voting in the state.

100% correct.

[FoxtArt]

And here?s your answer.



It is a wonder that this ?non-organization? has managed to persist for going on three generations now. I'm sure fentanyl will take a toll. We aren't in the 70s anymore. There are substances around today that will kill you without giving you a second chance.

But, we also have narcan too.

We'd have about 50% fewer transients if not for narcan. With that many hippies around, they'll probably have a narcan vending machine and no fatalities (from opiods). Hep C, heart attack and stroke, maybe 15+.

[OtterbatHellcat]

South Park predicted this.

Man, you beat me to it. lol.

[MED]

Huh...living off 285, I pretty much say this every weekend during the summer.

[brutal]

But, we also have narcan too.

We'd have about 50% fewer transients if not for narcan. With that many hippies around, they'll probably have a narcan vending machine and no fatalities (from opiods). Hep C, heart attack and stroke, maybe 15+.

I'd guess the fentanyl will get some.

[eddiememphis]

https://www.steamboatpilot.com/news/forest-service-plans-rainbow-family-gathering-focused-virtual-public-meeting-tuesday/
https://www.steamboatpilot.com/news/hundreds-of-rainbows-set-up-forest-camp-in-routt-county/

USFS is having a meeting and dispatching an incident management team for the July 1-7 gathering of peace, love and outdoor defecation.

The second article says the hippies have already started arriving in the Routt National Forest in an area north of California Park.

"The campers will spend hours talking, singing, dancing, playing instruments, making art and meeting new friends."

[eddiememphis]

https://www.summitdaily.com/news/mid-cleanup-mess-some-rainbows-vow-to-stay-a-month-to-help-clean-up-adams-park/

The hippies are gone.

They left behind a mess.

"... the estimated expenditure for this year's gathering stands at $700,000, including the Forest Service's national incident management team and local costs."

"...the damage ranged from soil compaction that inhibits plant regrowth to holes dug to "compost" leftover food that were not covered with soil and canine waste left in the forest from hundreds of dogs."

"I think it's a really beautiful event. I was hoping to find a girlfriend here. I got 10 rejections," Justin said with a smile."

I guess it's not all peace and love.

[Ah Pook]

91000

[Shake]

[rondog]

I read a bunch of 'em are still there helping with the cleanup? If so, gotta give 'em props for that. Also read that the real problems was from a bunch of kids assuming it was a festival or burning man kinda thing, and not so much the hippies. Still wouldn't a buncha stinky hippies and their hairy-legged wimminz nearby.....

[.455_Hunter]

Would a 10,000 person "Patriot" get-together on NF receive the same deference?

[CapLock]

I won't be taken no drugs, but I'll take some of hippy girls
free love.
This thread makes me think of that song.