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2024 Annual Rainbow Family Gathering of the Tribes
End of June to July 7, 2024
We invite all to the 2024 Annual Rainbow Gathering to participate in a silent meditation for peace, love, and harmony amongst all beings. We call for intentional action to experience the peace that is present within each and every one of us, guiding us toward a regenerative path for the future generations.
Our dream is for personal and collective healing so that we might honor our symbiotic relationship with our most beloved and beautiful world. We aspire to build together cultures of peace, justice, and love for our children and the unborn generations yet to come.
The Rainbow Gathering is a non-commercial back country camping experience where we practice how to live in peace with people from many cultures, beliefs, traditions, and backgrounds. All people are welcome to fully participate in all Rainbow council circles and activities. This Gathering will take place on undeveloped land currently under the jurisdiction of the United States Forest Service.
Rainbow Gatherings are non-aligned politically and spiritually. This is a totally free peace and healing gathering open to all peaceful people. The more you contribute, the more you will experience the magic that is the Rainbow Gathering.
The 2024 Rainbow Gathering is taking place on the homelands of the Maidu people of the land currently called California. Learn more about the Maidu Summit Consortium here. Learn how you can help them.
Feel free to arrive a few weeks
early to create the gathering and/or stay a few weeks late to clean it
all up. Please be respectful of the Maidu's land, culture, and
spirituality. Please walk lightly on the land, avoid places that are roped off, and do not camp along creeks or ponds.
We will be at approximately 6,700 foot elevation. The site does not have as much firewood as we are used to having. Please be prepared to cook on propane either due to limited firewood or due to fire danger.
DO NOT USE GOOGLE MAPS OR GPS COORDINATES TO GET TO THE ORIGINAL SITE -- many roads in and out of the area have not been driven and many roads in these mountains are only accessible for high-clearance vehicles. However, if you have a 4-wheel drive vehicle and like adventures, have at it.
RAP 107 - Gathering Consciousness
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 and the Upper Meadow. Avoid camping, peeing, washing above spring areas. Keep ALL soap out of streams, springs or the creek (even biodegradable soap)! Use a bucket to take your bath 60 feet away from the water source. To be certain of drinking water: boil it! Use the slit trenches or covered latrines - cover your paper & waste with ashes or lime, wash hands. 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 water bucket and shovel for Fire Protection. If you are the last to leave a fire PUT IT OUT! 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.
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. Don't litter - find collection point. Compost in pits only. Take your trash out of the gathering and drive at least 100 miles before depositing it in an appropriate trash can. Do not burden the local community with our trash.
You are the Gathering! Participate in Shanti Sena, the peace keepers council, and all 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 siblings’ different energies. Keep the Balance: Earth, Sky, Trees, Water & People! Look out for those who are struggling physically or emotional and offer your assistance.
Alcohol is Discouraged, Guns are Inappropriate, Violence is contrary to the Spirit. 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 Parade.
This is a 100% free event. Food is free, medical care is free, parking is free. No admission fee ever!
Directions & Site Specific Information Alternate Site
For directions to the alternate site, click here. Please note that there can be two types of consensus: by silence and by foot. The original site was consented to by silence. The alternate site was consented to by foot with most people leaving the original site. You are free to choose what you do.
Original Site
Consensus was reached on 6/17/24 in the morning that "We the Rainbow Family of Living Light at the 2024 Rainbow Gathering Spring Council consent to gather at the "middle way site" in Plumas National Forest." Also known as the upper stretches of Indian Creek.
This gathering is taking place on the ancestral lands of the Maidu people. Please treat it with respect.
Please note: It will take 1-2 hours to drive from Janesville, CA to the site due to inclines, road conditions, and speed of travel. There is a rest area at Honey Lake. Plan accordingly.
Learn it, live it, teach it -- how to get into the gathering without getting a mandatory court appearance ticket.
Misc. Information
Weed is not legal in Plumas National Forest (or any national forest).
DRINKING WATER: Bring at least a 2 gallons of drinking water per person. Save your jugs for reuse and refill.
Be prepared for nights into the 30s for the time being. Days will be sunny and warm!
Be prepared to cook on propane. YES EVEN PROPANE REQUIRES A CALFIRE PERMIT. Get a CalFire Permit at any USFS office or online at ReadyforFire.org.
We need more metal buckets and large metal coffee cans as well as hydrated lime for the shitters. Bring them to Main Supply when you come in. Ask the parking crew where to drop off.
Be your best self. Spiral Up and Unify - plug into existing camps to lighten the load. Meet new people, make new friends!
DO NOT USE GOOGLE MAPS OR GPS COORDINATES TO GET TO THE SITE!
DO NOT DRIVE ON GOLD RUN ROAD UNLESS YOU HAVE AN OFF-ROAD VEHICLE.
Directions from Reno, Nevada to Janesville, California
From Reno, Nevada take Highway 395 north approximately 75 miles to Janesville, California (just north of Honey Lake).
Directions from Susanville, California to Janesville, California
From Susanville, California, take Highway 395 south approximately 13 miles to Janesville.
Directions from Janesville, California
Janesville has a Chevron gas station and a Dollar General Store.
Begin at the Chevron station on the corner of Highway 395 and Janesville Grade in Janesville, California.
Set your trip odometer to zero at the Chevron station.
From there travel south (uphill) on Janesville Grade Rd.
At 4.6 miles take a right turn immediately after the first cattle guard - onto FR 28N02
YOU WILL STAY ON 28N02 THROUGHOUT THE FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS - if an offshoot is a dirt road, and the other option is gravel, stay on the gravel road.
At 5 miles in you will veer right on a fork in the road.
At 5.8 miles you will follow signs to the right towards Thompson Peak.
Continue on 28N02 and at 11.1 miles from the Chevron station you will follow the sign to the right towards Red Rock Lookout.
At 13.1 miles you will cross a cattle guard.
At 14.3 miles you will come to a Y in the road with a wooden corral right in front of you.
Go right at this Y.
At this point, the road will start to change from gravel to dirt.
At 17 miles from Janesville, you will arrive at parking.
The Susanville Indian Rancheria put out a letter against this gathering taking place in Maidu territory. This gathering has only made a mess of every area they’ve been at and they have harmed important plant life. We Maidu people are against this happening in our land!!!
ReplyDeleteAny estimate on how far from parking to gathering- that we need to hike?
ReplyDeleteYou were kindly asked not to have your gathering on SIR ancesterial land. You should respect that! To ignore SIR response to your "telling" them what your doing is disrespectful and rude! Go somewhere else! Your gatherings are dirty, never picked up. The land is in shaboles when you leave. The earth cries.
ReplyDeleteI have attended before and the rainbows were incredibly careful to ensure the earth was returned to as close a natural state as possible afterward. The owner of the nextdoor land was so impressed he offered to hire attendees to work his land afterwards.
DeleteReadyforfire.org does not work.
ReplyDeletePlease don’t come here
ReplyDeleteOur lands are sacred
ReplyDeleteWe have our own communities and animals to look after here. 15,000 people will not be able to come here at once
ReplyDeleteCan you please give the coordinates for those of us that want to see an aerial of the area?
ReplyDeletePlease leave our beautifu janesville and plumas/lassen county forest alone, we dont want another large fire due to negligence
ReplyDeleteIs there a spring or something? Where’s the water coming from?
ReplyDeleteSo I was watching the news out of Redding and they said that the Rainbow Family was going to Plumas County and that the Rangers and Sheriff's office was ready for a bunch of hippies running around in the woods
ReplyDeleteHave a beautiful peaceful lovely wondrous amazing invigorating inspirational healthy healing adventuresome gathering!
ReplyDeleteTHANKS I WAS AWAITING DIRECTIONS MUCH PEACE AND LOVE TO YOU AND ALL !!!
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the good intent and excellent instructions. If everyone respects the beauty of the mountains and the local people, are extremely conscious of fire threat, a meaningful and joyful time will be had by all.
ReplyDeleteBrothers, Sisters 💜 Family.
ReplyDeleteStrengthen ALL Your Boundaries in Every Good Way.
Especially Families.
We fear nothing, nor anyone.
The last Gathering for me was 1989.
It WAS AMAZING in so many Ways.
In Wisconsin that year.
There was apparently some HUGE "Private Meetings of something"
Because
YAH,
Karma,
Protected Whom Ever They Were or What They "Do". Or "Did". Not my Business to Know. I Live my Life Knowing nothing about anything even tho I ....have the most forgetful memory...I LOVE it..
So when Our van, oh yeah my Sister and Brother and I fit the descriptions of three suspects.
Absolute Truth.
There was a MINIMUM of Twelve modes of transportation that pulled us over. The FBI, DEA, Local Authority, I remember at least three were wearing camouflage makeup and Uniforms.
It was a HUGE Gathering.
There were some big "things" I Learned went on.
We had one bowl left, best nug.
As we pulled over we through it in the opening of the door panel so it would fall out of the bottom of door completely rusted out.
They went through EVERYTHING.
I had several unidentifiable unusual substances (Perfectly Legal herbs and healing things).
So they had Us.
Well They did keep Our clean handmade soapstone pipes and brought us to the station and only a fine.
FINALLY THE POINT
to this drawn out story.
Who Ever You are,
Whatever You did,
I have Thought of You so many Times over the years.
How You were Spared from "CERTAIN" doom.
Praise YAH!!!
Not that day,
Not that way
I look forward to The Day We Meet 💜
Maybe We already have.
PS.
I happened to have had the EXACT same description of Your van.
It is very disrespectful to hold your event on tribal homelands. You are a problem not a solution or a positive entity.
ReplyDeleteDo we need something like an "America the Beautiful" pass to avoid receiving a ticket from the USFS?
ReplyDeleteThat link for the wild fire permits is incorrect. It's readyforwildfire.org
ReplyDelete40°17'01.3"N 120°41'42.9"W
ReplyDeleteWelcome Home
ReplyDeleteI am 70 years. I use a walker. Big guy, like a oversized football player. I have a learning disability. But I do ok. Great really. I so wish t go. I don't have any camping items but wish to participate. I have money but don't wish to pur have a bunch of stuff for a one use thing. So for beginners is doable that I may join in? Do you think so?
ReplyDeleteI'm 70 and drive a pickup that gets 15 miles a gallon. I'm a big guy like a big football player. I'm also disables as I use a walker. I'm also disabled as I have a learning disability.
ReplyDeleteI don't have any camping stuff but have money. I don't want to buy a bunch of stuff for a one time thing.
I'm deep and thoughtful. I like to talk and listen. I'm open minded. I like your thoughts of the camping trip. What you your and others thoughts.
Canceled?
ReplyDeletethe US would be a pretty sad place indeed if it would prohibit the Rainbow Family from gathering. we love you all
ReplyDeleteDebbie Eagle says family reunion still happening at the original gathering site.
ReplyDelete“Dear Rainbow Family,” Susanville Indian Rancheria Vice Chair Robert Joseph begins, “This letter is in response to the proposed 2024 Rainbow Gathering within the Susanville Indian Rancheria’s Ancestral lands. We appreciate your consideration in notifying the Tribe of your planned event and proposed location, however the SIR does not support this gathering taking place within our Ancestral lands which overlaps Lassen, Plumas and Modoc county.” The full text can be read at SusanvilleStuff.com. Please consider respecting this clearly stated objection. I recognize that many others ignore or circumvent tribal input and that the actual damage done will be far less than many things that the tribe approves or at least acquiesces to. However the cultural reconciliation that is possible if we listen may be worth our sacrifice. Thanks for considering.
ReplyDeletehow long is the hike in to main meadow from the parking?
ReplyDeleteALERT: Some people from the area are planning to come with boom boxes etc. 4th of July morning to disrupt your gathering. Do not engage with these people, they do not represent all of us locals!
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