Hitchgathering 2018

Hitchgathering is the name of a series of international hitchhiking gatherings held in Europe and Northern America since 2008.

Organizing the event

Hitchgatherings are self-organized: everybody makes them happen
All communications about organising the gathering happen mainly on the hitchwiki forum. Plenty of the community talk happens in the Facebook group
a lot of relevant discussion happens on the mailing list
Feel free to edit this page.

Feel free to suggest locations for main/pre/post gatherings around Europe!

Remember to tackle the following questions when you scout for a location:

Is there space for 20-50 persons?
Can we acquire drinking water somewhere nearby?
Are there possibilities to dumpster dive or is food cheap?
How easy/difficult is it to reach the place?
How secluded is the place?
Can we just stay at the place or does it belong to somebody, do we need a permission?
Can we dig shit pits there?
Can YOU be there to help organizing in the beginning?
What else is important? Which things do we need to bring with us?

Why not Traumschule again? If there are multiple options again, it would be great to host you once more. Regarding the question:

Is there space for 20-50 persons? Yes
Can we acquire drinking water somewhere nearby? Yes
Are there possibilities to dumpster dive or is food cheap? Yes
How easy/difficult is it to reach the place? See [to get there]
How secluded is the place? "It'is about 80-100km away from highways (A2, A7, A24) and 3km from national road 189."
Can we just stay at the place or does it belong to somebody, do we need a permission? The place belongs to the Freiräume foundation created for open spaces like this.
Can we dig shit pits there?
Who will help organizing in the beginning?
What else is important? Which things do we need to bring with us? First of all: enough time! ** Besides that not much more than the usual hitching equipment like a sleeping bag, little money for service costs and durable food.