Sausagefest Tips

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

Thing We Also Need:

• Pop up tents
• Tables
• Stoves/grills/griddles
• A set of shelves

Set Up

• 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. 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.

“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 take down.

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.

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
  • Ben says that plastic in the fire is okay, but be mindful of people that are cooking on 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

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.

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.

In the past we’ve had people take everything and shove it all back into one cooler. Smash all of the food with a bag of ice. Truly baffling behavior.

Beer can be warm. Food cannot. Don’t mess with the food coolers.

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.

Close the Fucking Cooler

After you open the fucking cooler, close the fucking cooler.

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

We’d like people to hang out in the fun zone most of the time. It’s more fun when we’re all hanging out together. 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. Avoid putting your tent in corner of the field where the green parking box meets the blue tents box.

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.

Morning Wood

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.