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Summery:
Camping: Wet & cold, sparse.
Scenery: Pretty when not obscured by mist - nice snow covered mountains. Lots of nice period tents.
Food: excellent, plus good fancy coffee and crepe merchant on site
Shopping: dangerous - many merchants (though some not yet open). I bought some card weaving to use as a belt, a real magyar belt mount, a piece of roman glass, a belt pouch, some linen embroidery thread, a crepe, and a lot of coffee.
Company: Good when present, and what there was of it.
Mood: Subdued, sleepy, grumpy. People didn't wave when driving past, wet weather on Sunday was keeping people indoors, event staff seemed less than courteous and very stressed out. Hopefully weather will improve and improve their tempers by next weekend when more people show up.
Overall: cold and icky ending knocked it down to not terribly fun. Good shopping and nice scenery make up for a bit. This site would be nice in the middle of the summer. This was definitely more of a working practice run and figure what we can do to improve our camp sort of event, rather than a " yay, we are at an SCA event having fun with our friends," experience. Hopefully the look I bought will sweeten the memory somewhat. Things were not helped by the lack of booze on Saturday night - more booze could have made up for a lot.
Camping: Wet & cold, sparse.
Scenery: Pretty when not obscured by mist - nice snow covered mountains. Lots of nice period tents.
Food: excellent, plus good fancy coffee and crepe merchant on site
Shopping: dangerous - many merchants (though some not yet open). I bought some card weaving to use as a belt, a real magyar belt mount, a piece of roman glass, a belt pouch, some linen embroidery thread, a crepe, and a lot of coffee.
Company: Good when present, and what there was of it.
Mood: Subdued, sleepy, grumpy. People didn't wave when driving past, wet weather on Sunday was keeping people indoors, event staff seemed less than courteous and very stressed out. Hopefully weather will improve and improve their tempers by next weekend when more people show up.
Overall: cold and icky ending knocked it down to not terribly fun. Good shopping and nice scenery make up for a bit. This site would be nice in the middle of the summer. This was definitely more of a working practice run and figure what we can do to improve our camp sort of event, rather than a " yay, we are at an SCA event having fun with our friends," experience. Hopefully the look I bought will sweeten the memory somewhat. Things were not helped by the lack of booze on Saturday night - more booze could have made up for a lot.
