Which fields flooded during the monsoon of 2005?

[Northernsoul45]

_{just how bad / muddy can oxlyers get?}

_{was looking at it yesterday and area looks good for our needs being close to silver hayes / arcadia}

_{(area i was lookign at , when looking at the map, top left with the out of bounds / crew camping to the west & north to encloses you from 2 sides so cuts the foot traffic down)}

[ThomThomDrum]

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[ThomThomDrum]

_{just how bad / muddy can oxlyers get?}

_{was looking at it yesterday and area looks good for our needs being close to silver hayes / arcadia}

_{(area i was lookign at , when looking at the map, top left with the out of bounds / crew camping to the west & north to encloses you from 2 sides so cuts the foot traffic down)}

[ads1980]

_{just how bad / muddy can oxlyers get?}

_{was looking at it yesterday and area looks good for our needs being close to silver hayes / arcadia}

_{(area i was lookign at , when looking at the map, top left with the out of bounds / crew camping to the west & north to encloses you from 2 sides so cuts the foot traffic down)}

[russycarps]

the reporting of the flooding in 2005 was misleading though. I remember getting home and people thinking the whole festival was washed out, when in reality it was a tiny amount of tents affected. We got some decent sun in 2005 too

I guess the people who's keys got washed away learnt a harsh lesson: the first thing to do when you arrive on site is put them in the lock ups

[dingbat2]

Quite a contrast in 2005 - this is a pic of my mate outside our tent on Thursday evening.

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These are some photos on Friday morning!

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We camped up in Big Ground above the Pyramid. 2007 was a lot worse though (I will send some pics) because it rained nearly all weekend. in 2005 it was fine after the initial flood of Friday morning

Edited May 17, 2013 by dingbat2

[Wooderson]

There were rivers where paths used to be on all slopes in 2005 on the Friday. 2007 was cold and muddy but as regards a similar volume of water - not a chance.

[ThomThomDrum]

S'far as I can remember a huge area around the John Peel tent held a lot of water until the Sunday.

[ukdaasfan]

Hi just a quick question that will help us decide where to camp this year. Which camping fields flooded during 2005?

(NFR NFC)

[ukdaasfan]

There were rivers where paths used to be on all slopes in 2005 on the Friday. 2007 was cold and muddy but as regards a similar volume of water - not a chance.

[russycarps]

There were rivers where paths used to be on all slopes in 2005 on the Friday. 2007 was cold and muddy but as regards a similar volume of water - not a chance.

[dingbat2]

There were rivers where paths used to be on all slopes in 2005 on the Friday. 2007 was cold and muddy but as regards a similar volume of water - not a chance.

[russycarps]

2005 had lots of rain in a shorter amount of time - mainly Friday morning, but less for the rest of the festival from memory. 2007 had more rain over the whole weekend, so by Monday morning the whole place was a sloppy mudbath....

[UEF]

The problem with 2005 was that a large amount of water shat down in a short space of time couldn't go anywhere.

The problem with 2007 was that you couldn't stop it falling out of the sky.

[windy_miller]

2007 is my least favourite Glasto. Non stop rain all weekend, and then it took us 11 hours to get out of the car park

[ThomThomDrum]

2007 was the worst Glasto experience by far for so many reasons, Im not even going to start.

I still look back at 2005 and smile as I had a great wknd.

That can not be said about 2007 by a long way

[Trebor]

I ended a miserable 2007 stuck in the car park for 12 hours, feeling ill. The only food we could find were some unopened scotch eggs in a bin. I ended up, for the lack of any toilets anywhere near us, shitting in a hedge as a family looked on. I didn't go back the following year. I went to Green Man. It rained. A lot.

[Wooderson]

2007 was "survived" rather than enjoyed.

[russycarps]

2007 was "survived" rather than enjoyed.

[Trebor]

I'd forgotten all about the ominous crack of thunder on the Thursday night in 05! I remember fleeing from the Stone Circle and thought "Here we go". We were high up in Pennards so we were lucky, but there were some real sights around us. WHo headlined the Friday? Can't remember but I remember Sat night was an anticlimax because we trudged all the way up to the Peel tent to see the Go! Team, only to find they had to stop the gig. But, as Russycarps says, Sunday was great. We finished all our drugs at dinner time, got completely fucked, some campers who had been next to us the whole weekend but we never saw them donated a bottle of whisky by way of thanks for all the music we'd been playing. Wilson, Primal Scream and Ian Brown were all great. What a festival!

[scmusic]

2007 was shite. There, I said it. As Wooderson said above, it was an endurance rather than an enjoyance.

I just looked back at my "video diary" and aside from the Arcade Fire and Rufus Wainwright, musically it was a washout as well. I lost all my friends on the Friday night and spent hours tromping through the mud chasing them around to no avail, Saturday I didn't want to get separated so let my musical standards slip and accompanied my somewhat younger friends to see Maximo Park (gah), the Kooks (who?) and the Killers (massively underwhelming in part due to sound issues).

Sunday I was really looking forward to the Chems but the rain got the better of us, our space in the Dairy Ground was completely mud-logged and we decided to jack it all in and head home for warmth. Best decision of the weekend. Watching the rain lash the crowd at the Chems I knew I wouldn't have had in in me to have enjoyed it.

I have all the kit to survive bad weather. But it doesn't mean I want to.

[Trebor]

much better line up than this year though....

[Trebor]

One of the last things I saw on the Sunday night in 07 was a man chasing a girl during the Chemical Brothers and threatening to hit her, while a sample of freddy Krueger repeated "You are all my children now". That and the shitting in a hedge summed that year up for me.

[Ed209]

When I look back on glastonburys I remember all the great times, except for 2007, all i remember is mud, rain and pain.

[scmusic]

much better line up than this year though....