This is a Spiritual Gathering, absolutely Free & non-commercial, supported by
our voluntary cooperation.  We are here to express and rejoice in the
sacredness of ourselves, nature, the land, and the spirit that connects us
all.  Tread lightly, with great respect, as you enter the Cathedral of Nature.
                              join in this unique event -
                   The Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes.

DIRECTIONS
>From the North , Northeast & Northwest  Hwys.  90, 17, & 6 lead to US 219
south to Ridgway.

>From the South, East & West take Interstate 80 to exit 18 and follow US 153
north.  At Penfield  take US 255  to St. Marys and take PA 120 west  to
Ridgway.  Heavy, large vehicles use this route.
Cars and small Vans only may use Interstate 80 to exit 16 and follow US 219
to Ridgway.
Warning:  US 219 North is steep, twisty and dangerous for large rigs - DO NOT
USE THIS ROUTE.  If you are checking a map for another route coming from the
south also avoid 949 north as it leads to Arroyo Road which has a narrow
bridge with a 3 Ton limit.
                                              RIDGEWAY
In Ridgway at the intersection of Main St. and Broad you will see a Sheets
Convenience Store on the left go straight through 4 lights.  Site is approx.
9 miles.  Go up a steep hill and over a narrow bridge.  Speed limit is 30
mph.  You'll eventually see a sign for Little Drummer, keep driving. There is
a sign for ATV Timberline Trailhead and you are real close. At the
intersection of Arroyo Rd and Spring Creek Rd. make a right onto FS 136 (not
marked, dirt road).  Go north 4.5 miles towards Owls Nest.  Welcome Home!!!
Follow speed limits - 20 mph on dirt roads.

Come home safely, take care of each other along the way.  Make sure your
vehicles are safe and street legal.  Ignore all rumors of cancellation,
regardless of source.  If you cannot be with us in person on the 4th of July
be with us in spirit by joining in the silence.
                                           WE LOVE YOU!
                             *Please reprint and pass along.
                                       (page 2)
                                   BRING ALL GOOD THINGS!
                    (Personal items are a must - all else is optional)
PERSONAL ITEMS: Your own bowls, cups, utensils, personal water containers,
water jugs, portable shelter, camping equipment, sleeping bags, blankets,
mats, flashlights and extra batteries, camp shovel, camp tools, rope.
Temperatures on the Allegheny Plateau can be as high as 100 or low as 40 this
time of year.  Prepare for both humid, sunny days & thundershowers. Bring
rain gear, layered clothing, hiking footwear (there is a long walk from the
trailhead to the gathering), sunscreen & a hat. Bring toiletry supplies
including extra toilet paper, menstrual necessities, biodegradable soaps &
shampoos, & first aid supplies, snake bite kit.  Bring acoustical
instruments. Rafts & tubes for swimming! If you're able, please bring extra
items (esp. blankets) to share w/someone less prepared.  Please bring bags to
take out your trash & recyclables.
 
The Magic Hat: This is where the money comes from to pay for most of the food
you eat, gas for the shuttles, supplies for C.A.L.M., batteries for the hand
held radios, and any other necessary items. Please, put your green energy
into the Hat early to fund this gathering. The Hat is passed around at
evening meals and with the Magic Hat band during the day.  Money from the hat
goes into the Rainbow Bank on the Land.  Banking Councils are held everyday.
There is only one magic hat.  Some kitchens & camps may pass a hat for their
specific needs.  Be aware whom you give money to.  There is no charge for
anything here.

KID'S VILLAGE: A co-operative community for our kids and their families.
Bring all types of arts & crafts supplies and play materials that encourage
peacefulness & cooperation. Talented entertainers always welcome to help
co-create a safe kids space with workshops, playshops, pageants and parades.
Fresh Goats Milk is appreciated. Please bring cloth diapers. Kid Village is
not a drop off point or free babysitting. Parental responsibility &
participation in childcare is the key.  Know whom you leave your children
with.

C.A.L.M.:  The Center for Alternative Living Medicine invites medicine
people, therapists & counselors of all disciplines to harmonize, work & learn
together.  This is our healing area.  If you get sick or are hurt or have a
contagious disease, get yourself to C.A.L.M.  Donations of medical and herbal
items are welcome. CALM has a Magic Hat to supplement it's needs. Check the
C.A.L.M. website for the wish list: http://www.infolation.com/calm

SANITATION:  Wash your hands/wash your dishes - keep clean! LATRINE needs:
metal buckets for ash or lime (bring lime). Multi-gallon plastic jugs w/
spigot & bleach for hand wash. 2 lb. coffee cans w/ lids (keeps toilet paper
dry), toilet paper, spades to dig latrines with.  For BATHING bring solar
showers,
shower hoses, buckets, biodegradable soap & shampoos. For LAUNDRY bring
biodegradable detergents, bleach, clothesline, buckets, wash basins, & hand
cranked wringer.  A plunger and a bucket make a great portable washing
machine!

TOOLS & MATERIALS: Mark tools for identification.  Bring shovels, axes,
picks, tamper bar, saws, mauls, hatchets, sledge hammers & rakes.  Account
for your tools: know who they are with & where they'll be.  Bring lanterns
(candle, kerosene or oil), rolls of plastic, twine & lots of rope.
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY: solar panels, wind & water generators. Bring animal
or people carts, wagons, & wheelbarrows to bring in gear.

LARGE SHELTER:  Tipis, parachutes, yurts, big tents, plastic & tarps for
community use.  Be responsible and take them with you after the gathering.

FOOD: Please bring bulk food for the kitchens, snacks for you and friends to
keep with you.  Kitchens range from raw food to macrobiotic & from total
vegetarian to omnivorous.

For KITCHENS: Bring large stainless steel pots, large cast iron pans, big
woks, stirring paddles, large cooking & serving utensils, large insulated hot
food containers for feeding in Main Circle, big bowls, grates for fires, lots
of 5 gal. Buckets, large water containers biodegradable soap, vinegar,
bleach, washcloths, sponges & scrub pads. Propane cooking reduces smoke
levels.  Keep your kitchens clean.  Healthy food keeps the camp healthy.
There is no road into the site so everything must be carried via the trail.

COMMUNICATING: Pens, markers, crayons, paper, pushpins, staplers, clear
plastic (2 mil or heavier), sign making materials, poster board, paint,
plywood, town criers w/bells & notebooks.

PLEASE keep boom boxes, ATV's, helicopters & chainsaws away from the
gathering itself.

CLEANUP:  All garbage, litter & recycling in your camp is your responsibility
to take out and faraway from the gathering site.  If you see litter pick it
up and take it away.  Bring your recycled plastic shopping bags to share.
Take in only what is necessary as it is a long walk out.

SHUTTLE VEHICLES: Need vehicles and crews to shuttle from parking areas to
front gate, CB's for shuttle drivers and parking lots. Drivers be aware of
the gas lines and don't drive on them.

It's a  large  site, camp on high ground as springs, streams and creeks run
through the bottom.  The area is delicate. ALL  kitchens, latrines and camps
must be at least  200 ft. away from streams and creeks.  Protect the springs
we drink from - please stay away from those areas. Keep dogs out of them.
                 A HEALTHY CAMP IS A HAPPY CAMP!
                                            (page 3)
 Our right to Gather on "National Forest" lands, which are held in trust for
us and our posterity, is protected by the first amendment and that is the
only PERMIT necessary.  Please do not sign any permits for "Rainbow Family
Gathering".
 "Congress shall make no law respecting...religion, speech, press; or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble.  Do administrated agencies now
have powers that the Constitutions specifically withheld from congress?
Applying for 'permits' gives authority to "authorities" to participate in the
'control' of people assembling, and 'permit' a strong 'police presence', and
the further ends of the 'control' agenda are met!

Hello & thanks to the folks of Ridgway who were such a big help in our 1986
Gathering.  We are happy to be back and plan for a fruitful relationship. See
you at the Gathering!

To all organizations and friends: The Rainbow Family is not in need of
clothing. Please donate to folks who can use them instead of bringing to the
Gathering.

Endangered species: The Indiana Bat. Local conservation groups have a court
order stopping the cutting down of any standing trees, living or dead, in the
Allegheny National forest to save the endangered Indiana Bat.  Please don't
cut living or dead standing trees.

Timber Rattlesnakes are native to this area and live in the rock beds, make
noise if walking through this area to warn them of your presence.  The area
is roped off, but If you see one leave it alone and walk away.  We are in a
marshy area, mosquitoes may be annoying.  Ticks may be in the tall grassy
areas.

              DECLARE ALL PREVIOUS JULY GATHERING SITES SACRED
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                                               RAP 107
                              Please protect this Beautiful Land.
© Walk softly. Harm no living thing. Harmonize - Blend in.  Use only down,
dead wood.  Cut no living trees.  Preserve the Meadows…camp in the Woods.  We
are caretakers of this land.
Everyone sharing makes a strong Human Tribe!
©Please Protect the Water Sources by staying out of DELICATE spring areas.
Avoid camping, peeing, washing above spring areas.  Keep ALL soap out of
streams, springs or the creek!  Use a bucket to take your bath at least 60
feet away from the water source.  To be certain drinking water is safe: boil
it!
©Use the slit trenches or covered latrines - cover your paper & waste with
ashes or lime, wash hands after.  Break the fly/illness connection:
shit-fly-food-you!  Dig no shitters near water areas or kitchens.
Protect our Health!
©Use your own cup, bowl & spoon!  Wash them after eating and rinse in
bleach-water. Visit C.A.L.M./M.A.S.H. if you feel ill - especially if you
have a contagious disease - or are injured.
©Camp Together - Establish neighborhoods.  Community Fires only! ~ Each with
5 gallon bucket with water and shovel for Fire Protection.  If you are the
last to leave a fire PUT IT OUT!  Please, NO Fireworks! Watch your gear: Be
Responsible ~ "Tempt Not Lest Ye Be Lifted From."
©Pets are discouraged but if you must bring them keep them fed, on a leash
and out of the kitchens, springs & fights.  Clean up their poop.  Love them.
PACK IT IN  - PACK IT OUT !!!
©Cleanup begins when you arrive.  Bring in only what is necessary.  There is
no janitor here…you are the cleanup crew.  Separate garbage for recycling.
Please don't litter.  Compost in pits only.
©You are the Gathering!  Participate in Shanti Sena (the peace keepers
council), activities, councils, work crews, workshops.  Volunteer wherever
needed: kitchens, welcome home, firewatch, parking lot, shitter digging,
supply, front gate, etc.  R-E-S-P-E-C-T your Sisters & Brothers energies.
Keep the Balance: Earth, Sky, Trees, Water & People!
©Alcohol is Discouraged, Weapons are Inappropriate, Violence is contrary to
the Spirit of the Gathering.  Please take no photographs or videos of people
without permission.  Discourage Drug Abuse.
©Buying and selling endangers our legal right to be here.  The Magic Hat  is
our Bank, donate early to fund our needs.  The Magic Hat goes around at
mealtime circles and with the Magic Hat band.
Our power together is many times our power separated.
©Enjoy the Rainbow with an open heart and you Will see the Vision.
©Join us for July 4th Silent Contemplation & Prayer for Peace, respect those
maintaining silence from dawn.  ©Hold the silence until the arrival of the
Children's Parade.
                                                    RAP 701
©In preparation for leaving…Pack up all your trash/recyclables and take it
away.  Take it far away. Do not impact the small towns near the gathering.
If you can't take it with you drop it in the collection area.
©Dismantle and disappear your encampment.  Pick up your litter.  If you don't
someone else will have to.  Vanish ALL traces.  Douse your fire, ashes cold,
scatter your fire rocks.  Replace turf.
© Fill in your local latrine and compost holes solidly with lime and soil.
Latrine tops are burned. Remove string and twine from tree limbs.  Break up
hardened ground with shovels or picks for future root growth and moisture
catch.  Intermix humus from forest ground if possible.
©NATURALIZE!  When an area is clear and clean scatter logs, branches, leaves
to look natural.  Disappear trails, renew forest habitat.  Water systems are
removed, cleaned and stored for next year.
©Help with disabled vehicles, fully dismantle ramps and bridges.  Water bar
steep places to prevent erosion.   The final crew re-seeds with appropriate
vegetation to complete the process.
©Transport as many riders as possible out of the area.  Treat local folks
with great kindness.
©Drive safely and share this love wherever you go.
                                       WE LOVE YOU !!!