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Lad is off to Leeds this weekend - first camping festival.
I thought he could take our camping stove like this one but looking at the rules here I'm not so sure.
Anyone know if it would be Ok?
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I'd risk it.
(veteran of ~8 Leeds festivals)
I'm guessing the idiots chucking gas canisters on bonfires are behind those rules.
There's plenty of places to buy food and drink including in the campsites away from the arena. If it's just for boiling some water a cheap little hexamine one (like we used to use in army cadets) will get you by and be OK with the festival rules.
Not a chance. I've taken a trangia before, and friends took hexamine stoves.
Think of it less like camping in the family holiday sense, and more an exercise in surviving hangovers and avoiding getting blown up by exploding gas canisters on the sunday night.
No standard butane or the like stoves according to that. We snuck one in to v a few years back. At y not this year they were taking the gas off people but there was a proper backlash as we queued, I got a senior security guy involved and he okayed them but I very much doubt that will happen at Leeds as it's in black and white.
Expect to be searched and be searched thoroughly.
Agree with all the above about not risking it and having been in our (hastily taken down) tent some 50 metres from where it all kicked off one year I can see why they are very strict about it. We ended up legging it over some fields to get away from the charging police in riot gear as a toilet block and rubbish area went up in flames and explosions.
Never been back.
Thanks chaps - I'll hang on to it at home. Sound like something like this then: Festival Kit Cooking Set
Having done a few Leeds Fests I'd recommend the following -
- only take food that can be eaten cold (tinned chilli for example)
- don't take anything that uses gas or meths (it'll just accelerate how quickly the fire that always gets started in the campsite once the music has stopped will spread)
- don't take a tent, or anything else for that matter, that you're attached to (because your tent will probably get burned down)
It's a great laugh as a teenager, hope he has a good time!
I worked at Leeds a few years ago, I have never seen anything like it.
As above, don't take anything that your not prepared to have set fire to.
Camp as far from the arena as possible, it's not a bad walk and from (hazy) memory crazy stuff happens by the arena. Loads of food stalls in the arena and if it's still the same butty vans in camping. No need to take anything to heat for really.
Are the no gas rules the same for campervans with a campervan pass?
Thanks chaps – I’ll hang on to it at home. Sound like something like this then:
Just give him the tenner....
As above cold food and buy stuff
– don’t take a tent, or anything else for that matter, that you’re attached to
This... if it is how I remember there will be fires everywhere as people burn all the rubbish etc.
Someone might tent dive (just jump on a tent) for fun or it may get rolled over in a fight. If it rains just throw everything away, almost everyone else there will seem to.
all in all despite this festivals were always a great laugh...
Just give him the tenner….
well, that might nearly get him an ice cream.
Are the no gas rules the same for campervans with a campervan pass?
No