Camp Tipsy is our yearly convention of our close friends and co-conspirators.
This year, Camp Tipsy is on the weekend of the 29th of June.
Camp Tipsy is located at East Park Reservoir, near Stonyford and Ladoga, California.
It's free camping on Bureau of Reclamation land. There is no gate. There are no greeters. There are no rules, save a few guidelines...
Please do not give any alcohol to anyone at anytime.
Please do not bring (or use) any fireworks what so ever! Camp Tipsy is a dog friendly event. I will personally kick your ass if you light off fireworks. It freaks dogs out, makes them bolt. Makes our camping neighbors dogs bolt then we are at war with our neighbors. Don't do it. It's also super dry there. This is FREE camping and everyone there is amazing and loves us. Lets keep it that way. Fireworks makes you a douchebag. Don't be a douchebag. Bring fireworks to Camp Tipsy and I WILL find out, and I WILL eject you. Don’t do it.
Bottles are not cool. We spend DAYS every year cleaning up broken glass BEFORE the event so you don’t cut your feet. Days. Of cleaning up broken glass around ALL the shores. It’s crazy. Lets not contribute to this madness. Just buy stuff in plastic or cans. Done. You can also transfer out of glass to plastic.
Camp Tipsy is a kid friendly event. That means that you control your adult beverages, you control your verbiage and you follow the lead of parents in regards to how to act OR YOU ASK. Whip-it fiending, swapping stories of what lube is best suited for certain activities or opinions on religion should be omitted.
At Camp Tipsy as is true in the rest of our lives, we must take care of each other. We need to be aware that water can be fun and can also be a danger. We need to watch out for each other and be good to each other. The challenge is to not have me standing in front of you flailing my arms and screaming “What happened to you guys taking care of each other!”
This is what happens when you google map for Camp Tipsy, but it’s wrong:
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=San+Francisco,+CA&daddr=East+Park+Reservoir,+Colusa,+CA&hl=en&sll=38.57196,-122.243765&sspn=2.138655,3.532104&geocode=FVJmQAIdKAe0-CkhAGkAbZqFgDH_rXbwZxNQSg%3BFeR1WAIdOZ6y-CmbJo6mkaSDgDF08vuqsP7Leg&oq=s&mra=ls&t=m&z=8
NOW LISTEN CAREFULLY. THERE ARE 2 ENTERANCES TO EAST PARK RESERVIOUR. THESE DIRECTIONS THAT YOU SEE ABOVE ARE WRONG. YOU CAN NOT GET DIRECTIONS FROM GOOGLE TO THE RIGHT ENTERENCE BY TYPING IN EAST PARK RESERVIOUR. SO I'M SHOWING YOU WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN YOU GOOGLE MAP IT. WHICH IS WRONG.
You enter the park in the town of Ladoga. The entire town is a general store/gas station/bar/restaurant/RV storage facility. The entrance for the park is 200 feet past the town of Ladoga on your right. We camp on the EAST side of the park. There is also camping on the WEST side of the park. Near the town of Stonyford. You are welcome to go there. We will not be there, though.
The drive to the enterance on the East Side is 2 1/2 hours from SF.
We put up tons of signs on the roads starting on I5. You can follow the signs.
IT’S BETTER IF YOU JUST FOLLOW THE SIGNS.
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If at any time you feel like doing it the WRONG way, and driving on the WORST ROAD I’ve ever been on, then please, by all means… take Leesville Road (Ca 20). It’s a washboard dirt track up the side of a mountain in the middle of nowhere with the Deliverance theme blasting out of every trailer on the way. Adds 2 ½ hours to your trip. Driving a motorcycle? NEVER SPEAK TO ME AGAIN IF YOU DECIDE TO TAKE 20 TO CAMP TIPSY. I’m sick of burying you people.
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Here are written directions:
Get to Camp Tipsy from SF:
Take the Bay Bridge to 80 East Sacremento. Stay on 80 until Vacaville, where you will NOT MISS the signs for 505 north.
Take 505 north 33 miles, merge with Interstate 5 north.
Take I 5 north 35 miles to the town of Maxwell. Exit I 5 and take Maxwell Road west. WARNING!!! SPEED TRAP IN MAXWELL. 25 MPH!
Take Maxwell road west 8 miles, turn right on Sites Ladoga Road and go 11 miles to the town of Ladoga.
The enterence to East Park Reserviour is 200 feet past the only store you've seen since Maxwell.
Enter into the park, you are going to drive a mile or so, and follow Camp Tipsy signs. Easy.
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This is a car camping event. You can drive your car to your campsite.
It's HOT there. HOT. Muy caliente. Bring an iceburg. You will go in the water. Which is why you should build a boat.
Beleive it or not, this is NOT a leave no trace event. There are dumpsters provided. They are your to fill. We pay extra for the dumpsters. Please clean up after yourselves, but LEAVE YOUR TRACE (in the dumpster). It looks better for us if we pay for our own garbage, they would never beleive we can pack it all out (of course we can). And that's fine, it's totally cheap.
There is a communal kitchen. Stoves, cooking basics, a BBQ, coolers, tables, kitchen ware, dishwashing station... ect... please feel free to bring scalable foods to pass around. It works great.
There are tools there. A full shop. And junk. And old boats. You can build a boat. A new one, or re-vamp an old one. Or help someone else realize their nautical musings... it's really fun to see the lake full of bullshit boats...
You build a boat to noodle around on. Sure. But you build to WIN!!!!
There is a BOAT CONTEST (noon, Sunday) with FABULESS PRIZES. You can win in any of these categories:
****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
**** NEW CATEGORY: The ART FAG award, for high concept designs!!!!
It's easy to build a boat. YES IT IS. Cardboard will float. Sure it will. Ducktape the seams, and pain the entire outer cardboard with latex paint. It'll last a few days. Maybe. Build a cardboard boat in an hour. Recycle it. 2 liter Pepsi bottles float. They displace however much 2 liters of water weighs. So 4 liters is about a gallon, and a gallon is about 8 pounds. So if you weighed 160 pounds, you'd need 40 soda bottles to displace your weight. Plus the weight of your 'boat'. You could ducktape 50 two liter bottles to the bottom of a chaise lounge and float to freedom.
Inflatable mattress' are absolutely cheating.
Any and all boat entries must be submitted 7 1/2 minutes before the boat contest witch happens on Sunday at high noon. All boat entries must have a name and a sponsor. A sponsor is whoever or whatever you'd like.Your boat must have a name, and a "special feature". Surprise us.
Camp Tipsy is a donation based event. What is a good donation, you might ask? $100. It costs thousands to throw. Starting with $3,000 a year in storage for all the stuff. We make a few trips up there, time and fuel. Rent a big truck. We give extra money to the port-a-potty company and the dumpster company. We are the biggest group they host up there. There are a million little expenses. Including some "convenience fees", if you know what I mean. Building materials, generator rentals, consumables, propane, tools, junk, paint, shade, rugs, life preservers, outboard motors, fasteners, lumber, blades for saws, wire for the welder, bits for the drills, glitter, beer, water, ice, food for the crew that sets up and tears down (last year a dozen of us), traveling money for the featured musicians, our new lifeguard and all this done without putting a price tag on it. $100 is a good donation for someone with a job who can afford it. Do what you can. Its an Olympic effort that will obliterate our month. We do nothing but Camp Tipsy in June, setting up and tearing down.
Camp Tipsy is the funnest thing I've ever done. We go up early. Your welcome to come help. Let me know.
