In honor of our national holiday, and a visit to a recent music festival...A new practice scenario. (with twists!)

Here is the set-up: You and two friends are going to an all day, outdoor music festival. The forcast is for warm and humid and the fest is located in a higher elevation. Figure a 12-14 hour day.

A. What do you bring?
B. What should you plan/ Prepare for?

Teacher

Let's see,

My new straw cowboy hat (this is a country musicathon isn't it?)

Lawn chairs (we are a tad too long in the tooth to stand 12-14 hours), maybe a small tarp to lay on too

Ear plugs

Sunblock

Sun glasses

Mini-binocs

Something in case of rain/cool temps (you didn't say how high the elevation is)

Couple of boxes of Travel-Johns, and a Lady-J for my wife (they never have enough porta-poties, and sometimes ya gotta go NOW)

Food/muncies and a rolling ice chest with drinks (who wants to stand in line forever and pay super high prices). If allowed. Trash bags, at least for your own trash

Camera/camcorder (if they will allow them, some don't. Try to find out in advance, hiking back to the car to put cameras in the trunk is a pain).

FAK of course

No blades (some concerts they search you, again you want to avoid that hike back to the car)

A good mood and lots of patience. Spending 14 hours in the sun along with a jillion other fans, many drunk, can be a little hard on the nerves...

Lots of water.

A. Beer
B. Hella fun.

HAPPY 4TH!

OBG,
I know your are a law abidin' guy but I could tell you a lot of ways to sneak a little blade inside the show. One way is to simply insert a thin, petite blade into you wallet. Goes right by the pat down...Buck Hartsook works great.
Happy 4Th!
Bill

Actually, while still working, and on at a state facility to boot, I got into a Toby Keith concert with a .380 in my hip pocket. Not a real good patdown...

Toby would be proud! Beside we were all safe with you CCWing anyway.
B

A working cell phone is important if you need to call for help or check in on the family back at home.

The rest was pretty well covered

Step one, dig out the ALICE frame.
Step two, dig out the cargo shelf.

Strap a camp chair, small cooler, rain gear, extra water, and bag with a thermal layer, FAK, sunblock, bug dope, regular glasses and little solar lanterns to mark corners with. Carry one end of the big cooler. Wear hat and shades, no wallet, just ID, one card and cash in front pocket.

Someone else is bringing the little stove, I get the heavy stuff. Sucks being the strongest in your crew. :P

what, no fireworks?

for...umm...for expediting fire building and signaling of course.

OK -- now that you're packed --Here is the first twist: Humity goes up to 100%, a full rainsotrm in the afternoon. Are you prepared?

In heat and 100% humidity (like I lived with in Panama for 18 long months), you aren't going to be dry no matter what, so just enjoy the cooling rain. Soon as it stops you will be as dry as you were before it started...

Out comes the cash- buy ballons. There is always a ballon vendor. Use bunches of them to loft my poncho to keep the grill dry while cooking, tethered with the paracord that is wrapped around my ALICE packframe to make it quiet and more comfortable. Sit back, and enjoy the lightning and the thinning crowd. Take odds on the likely hood of the show being scrubbed.

New twist ...coming up ...

Ok -- given the scenario -- an all day, outdoor music festival..here's the second twist. On the way out of the site, a small, two lane bridge on the only exit road is shut down, leaving thousands (including you) at the festival overnight, in you car. How would you do?

Oh, give me a hard one.

Most of my crew has lived together at one point or another, either in dorms or small apartments. All of us camp, most in the winter. Many of us have overnighted at Renfaires together. Close quarters, not a big deal.

I don't complain about stinky feet, they don't complain snoring, and we sleep.

Ha, piece of cake, since we have, in the pod on top of our little mini-SUV, a three season dome tent, two zip together mummy bags, self inflating pads, candle and battery lanters, etc, plus in a box in the back end at least three days worth of food, single burner stove, three plus gallons of water (plus whatever is in our two hydration packs and a six pack or two of 12 oz bottles of water). Bag of jerky, bunch of granola bars. Couple of poncho liners, fleece jackets with hoods. Wind up/solar/battery radio, I think that there might even be a two inch color TV in there somewhere. Couple of empty milk cartons to pee in. Tarp with paracord and spikes. Life is good...