Hey everyone!
I have been attending this festrival for the past 8 years called The
Autonomous Mutant Festival. It's a bit on the Burning Man tip,but
usualy
delivers some really cool electro, drum-n-bass, teckno,hard techno,
ambient, experimental,
cool anarchist street theatre, circus performances (truly
amaxing----one year I saw a woman come within 2 hula hoops of breaking
the world
record and saw the same gal tightrope walk over a 300 ft. ravine----
barefoot) and truly creative "out there" theme camps--- this year there
is
35 different theme camps with most soundsystems comparable to what
Free Cascadia had at Phoenix
And the kicker is....... IT'S FREE!!!!!!
I am going to post the link to the website and this years directions.
it is about and hour and a half outside of Seattle (which is great
because last year it was down in Shasta county)
here's the link:
www.mutantfest.org
and the directions:
Pre-direction notes: there is a river ,so if you desire you can bring
a water filter
and
water containers. You can also fill up with water at the Shell station
mentioned below. If you want to play musick, bring gas and containers.
here are the
directions: (from Seattle, WA)
General: the site is in the Gilford Pinchot Nat'l Forest.
BASIC DIRECTIONS:
from the north:
I-5 to the US-12 east
US 12 east to the 23
23 to road #2801 Just on the Cispus river in The Gifford Pinchot
National Forrest
quoted 1 line From the North On 1-5>> From the North On 1-5
- traveling down I-5 north you'll be on the look-out for signs marking
the
US-12 east
exit number #72..
-after you exit at #72 you'll be on the 12 East..there are signs saying
this
so keep your eyes out.
-You'll be going on the 12 east for about 60 miles
-You'll pas a few small towns along the way on the us12 east..a few
farms and
such.
After about 60 miles you'll see a market called Fischers on your
right...there's a shell station kitty corner across the street from it.
-Take the first right after Fisches Market..this is road 131
-go across te grey bridge..the 131 will soon turn into the 23 (about 2
miles)
-Go down the 23 for about 20 miles..make sure you stay on the 23..it
doesn't
have to many forks though and there a many signs saying that it's the
23 along
the way.
-You'll pass a sign saying Blue Lake Trail Head. You'll now be in the
Gifford
Pinchot National Forrest
-almost there!!
-The road to the site is just after a small bridge that spans over the
Cispus
River.
You'll take the first road to the right after the bridge. The road is
marked
#2801. The marking is on a brown post set up in some ferns on the right
hand
side of the road where it begins.
Don't go tot he road that goes strait to the river there..take the long
one.
-The site is about 8 1/2 miles down road #2801
-You'll go over about five small bridges along the road.
-Just before the road to the site you'll pass a clearing the trees
where you
can see the Cispus river
-Soon you'll see some clearings to the right of you..right after these
there
is a road of to the right..take this road and you'll be in the big
clearing
with the rock quarry
I HIGHLY RECCOMEND CHECKING THIS OUT!!!!!!!.........
it's in a very beautiful area, there is a river to swim in and
it's FREE!!!!!!!!!!!
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