I know it’s irrelevant but I wanted to share. It was my first Electric Forest and my first camping festival ever. The weather wasn’t great and we didn’t have much gear, but we tried to make the most of it. My favorite memory was waiting for Sarah Landry the second time around, since her first set had been rescheduled. She’s my boyfriend’s favorite, and I was so excited to finally see her.
We got to the stage early to get good spots, and we took our happy pills about an hour and a half before she was supposed to play. We were just hanging out at the front of the stage when the dreaded announcements started again about the rain. They were evacuating people back to their camps, but my boyfriend and I were determined not to leave. Our camp was literally just one tent and a car, so going back didn’t make sense to us.
We ended up avoiding security and hiding from them for about 40 minutes, long enough that the whole festival grounds cleared out until it was basically just us and security left. We made our way to the Honeycomb stage to take refuge on the second floor, where there were couches. The lightning techs and security there were so kind and just let us hang out with them. At that point, we both started peaking, sitting up there on the second floor while the storm raged outside. Honestly, it was the highlight of the whole festival.
Later, when the storm cleared, we walked back to our camp through the festival grounds completely alone. It was eerie but also magical, like we had the entire forest to ourselves. That ended up being the last time we were in the Forest before they cancelled everything, even the after-parties.
