East Park Reserviour. We like to call it Lake Ladoga. The native Americans called it that.
Camp Tipsy is a donation event. It’s Burea Of Reclamation land. Free camping. You give us money to pay for the infastructure like the storage of the boats and trailers, the materials, the motors, the tools, the kitchen stuff and the weeks spent in preperation. It’s quite a massive undertaking!!! A suggested donation would be about $100. If that sounds like give less. If your loaded give more.
Directions are simple, as there is only one way there…
Take I 5 to the town of Maxwell. It’s about 15 miles north of Williams. About 50 miles north of Sacramento. It’s 95 miles north of SF.
Take the only road in Maxwell west, towards the Pacific Ocean. The road will ‘T’, to your left will be a dead end dirt road. Take the right. Go over the windy mountain road. You will come to the ‘town’ of Ladoga. There is a little store there and a gas station. Ice. Beer. Tampons. 200 feet past this miracle of modern convinience, you will find a giant sign that says Welcome To East Park Reserviour, but they spell it right. At this point you will see your first Camp Tipsy sign. It will have an arrow on it. There are hand made signs guiding you through the park. From the turn off to the park, your like 2 miles away.
The park is free camping, first come, first served.
There is no glass bottles allowed. No amplified music. Dogs are welcome.
Find us, camp somewhere and marvel at the idiocy provided for and by you in the form of the worst nautical engineering you have ever seen.
Bring food to share, we bring a kitchen. Bring water for yourself and for cleaning and cooking and bathing.
There are port-a-poties on site. Unless we get drunk and makes boats out of them…
People are generally friendly who are locals, but remember they all spank it to Sarah Palin porn and think global warming is a hoax purpetrated by liberal media. OK, so it probably is but my point is keep the conversations light and if anyone says or does anything lame just remember they are looking for a reaction. Give them nothing.
As far as the boats are concerned, there is a TON of material up there to build with. I bring all my tools. Your competing for several different awards:
****Top dog! Worst implementation of worst design
****Sloppy seconds! Worst implementation
****Third rail! Worst design
****Fourth dimension! Boat most likely to kill pilot
****Fifth Avenue! Boat most likely to get pilot laid
****Sixth sense! Boat most likely to sink, but doesn’t
****Seventh heaven! Boat least like a boat
****Last place! Least effort put forth
Don’t even try to get our coveted last place award by bringing anything to the lake…
The idea here is not what can you do it’s what can you do with nothing. Or very, very little. In order to compete, you need a sponsor. Your sponsor could be any organization or any business or any person. But you need one. We are re-defining sponsorship. Prizes are plaques for your to display on your mantle next to your rocketship trinkets.
You can arrive anytime, day or night. You can arrive any day. There is no gate, no dumb greeters with pom poms and there is no lifegaurd. You have to gaurd your own life.
You can read through the rest of this blog, there is more info and stuff or you can just show up and do whatever you want. You’ll have the time of your life either way.
Oh yea, it’s really hot there. Bring a hat.
see ya there… chicken
