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=Location=
==Considerations==

===Camping===
Camping on BLM land or National Forest can be free at non-developed campsites
This extent of available camping is not widely known, but the BLM/NFS can be called to get TONS of free, nearly unknown campsites. 

===Ease-of-hitching===
Near to interstates?
Withing a hitch-friendly state such as OR, MT, WA, etc?

===Access to resources (food/water)===
Developed campsites offer this, but usually have a fee attached.  *NOT ALL*

===Near to cities for social effect, or rural, for ease-of-camping===
This depends on our purpose.  Are flashmob-type-activies (a la 7/8/9) planned?  If so, we need to be somewhere with significant population density.  Or is a relaxing, Sines-type small town preferred?

==Possibilities==
===Boulder, CO===
Pro
Con

===Missoula, MT===
Pro:
Easy wilderness camping
Directly on I-90
Con:
Montana can be cold and a long hitch for some people


=Date=
Consider weather, holidays
Match up with 5/8/11 (or 8/5/11 as Americans write it) August 5th 2011?  Or choose our own date?

Consider other events around that time
National Rainbow gathering (likely Washington) in July
Burning Man- End of August/early September