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Sausagefest Tips

  1. Bring your own chair
  2. Bring your own cup
  3. Bring a cooler
  4. Bring shoes for the creek
  5. Bring a towel
  6. Bring bug spray and sunscreen
  7. Close the cooler

Thing We Also Need:

  • Pop up tents
  • Tables
  • Stoves/grills/griddles

Set Up

Tim and Tom are already at camp, so they’ll have some stuff already done. There’s still a lot that needs done.

  • Car port needs set up
  • Food needs unpacked and organized
  • Smoker cooking area needs set up
  • Gen pop cooking area needs set up
  • Tent city needs built

The faster these things get done, the faster we can get to the creek. We don’t know how much creek time we’ll get this year. Please don’t wait for somebody to ask you to do something. Most of you have been going for 10+ years. You know what needs to be done. If you don’t know what to do then ask.

Reduce Waste

Hauling garbage on Sunday sucks. Cleaning garbage juice off of your stuff sucks worse. We’ve done a great job of reducing the volume and grossness of the garbage over the last few years

  • Pour out any liquids before you throw something in the garbage
  • Crush your cans
  • Throw all paper, wood, and food scraps in the fire
  • Roll up the chip bags when you’re done with them so they don’t get soggy
  • Put lids back on jars when you’re done with them

Don’t Mess with the Food Coolers

Last year we got all of the coolers organized, then somebody came over and shoved everything into one cooler and smashed all of Danny’s pierogis with a bag of ice.

We try to organize the coolers in a way that dinners and breakfast are kept separate from things that are used more frequently. That way dinner and breakfast stay cold and fresh when people are opening coolers to get burgers, dogs, and mountain pies.

Bring a cooler. We need them for food. We need them for beer. We need them for ice. If we have a stack of unused coolers, then that’s better than not having enough.

Save Space

There are quite a few of us now, and if we’re economical about our space we have more room for activities and it’s easier to get around

  • Do your absolute best to carpool
  • If you have a bigger tent try to share it, but that’s not as important

We’re changing the parking plan a bit this year. We felt that we were too spread out last year, and we’d like people to hang out in the fun zone most of the time. Notice that the left end of the field is all parking now instead of a mix of parking and tents. As always, if we fill up the spaces in the top right corner, it prevents weird people from camping down by the creek.

Avoid putting your tent in a low spot.

Note: if you’re sleeping in your vehicle, it counts as a tent. Please put it with the tents

Watch the Trees

Around the perimeter of the field there are small trees. Please watch out for them and don’t step on them. Matt Myers slaved over a hot auger for hours planting those(seriously). It only takes one step to undo all of that.

“How Can I Help?”

A ton of work goes into this weekend. A large portion of that work is done by a comparatively small portion of the people. I know all of you are helpful, but often don’t know how to help. If you see people moving, just ask “How can I help?”. Especially during setup and takedown. Tables need set up, tents need put up, the fire pit needs shoveled out, the fire needs started, groceries need unpacked and organized. Help each other out. The faster we can get set up, the faster we can get in the creek.

Morning Wood

Since Ben won’t be there Friday morning, somebody needs to take the initiative to lead this expedition.

A few years ago we started going to the sawmill to get wood. It’s been a huge improvement over dropping a tree on Pat’s Subaru on Saturday afternoon. If you have a truck, please talk to Ben or Alex about making a trip to get wood. It’s really nice being able to throw wood on a giant ass fire and not having to worry about running out. We always want to leave more wood than when we arrived so we don’t fuck over Tim and Tom.

The Toilet is Finicky

The toilet is a gravity fed from a container in the loft and can be finicky at times. The lid to the tank will be off. Please make sure it is filling back up for the next person after you flush. If it does not start to fill, a light jiggle of the float up and down can fix it. If it still does not start to fill, please inform Ben so he can have a look at it. If he has to fix it too many times he’ll remove the valve in the toilet and the tank will then be filled by opening the water supply shutoff at the base of the toilet to fill the tank and shutting it back off once it’s full.

Please Don’t Pee on My Smoker or My Cooler

If you pee off the deck, please aim towards the forest. When you go off the side in the dark, it’s hard to see that my smoker and my cooler are down there. I would really prefer to not get pee on them. I’m sure all of the people eating would prefer that as well.

Do Something Uniquely You

Certain people are synonymous with certain things. Who do you think of when you hear mountain pies? Coffee? Tito’s and Mio? Pierogies? Fancy lights? Paint sticks? When people hear your name what do they think? One of the cool things about this trip is getting to experience all of the unique things that everyone brings to the table.

Pick something and own it. Be the hot dog guy, the mixed drinks guy, the Tommy Two Liter guy, the obscure game guy, the three shells guy. It doesn’t even have to be unique. There’s plenty of room for multiple coffee guys, multiple breakfast guys, multiple gadget guys.

Markie wasn’t born with a pie iron in his hand. He got really fuckin good by making hundreds of mountain pies. The journey to being the dessert mountain pie guy starts with a single dessert mountain pie.