Celebrating the introduction of deposit on cans and plastic bottles, the 17th European Hitchgathering will take place in Austria from August 1st to August 15th 2025. Yay!
What? Hitchgathering is a DIY hitchhiking festival that has been organised since 2008. It usually happens in August and sees a bunch of hitchhikers congregate at a different spot in Europe. Usually the bulk of the food is obtained by dumpsterdiving and cooked on the fire; everything else is open to everybody's imagination. Usually there is swimming, music, games, story-telling, workshops... whatever you can come up with! Everybody is welcome without any need to announce your presence or register yourself anywhere beforehand. The main organisation platform is this wiki page; there is also the Hitchwiki Signal group. Often there are pregatherings (see below) where people can meet beforehand and perhaps already start a caravan towards the main gathering.
Where? There is no location fixed, yet. Do you have any ideas?
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Communication
- Main organisation platform is this wiki page. Here you can collect/present proposals and use the talk page
- Other communication channels are the mailing list, Signal-group and the Facebook group. Please transfer all relevant info to the wiki page.
Proposals
Malga Chiampis, Northern Italy
The same location al last years Hitchgathering/2024
+Amazing location and surrounding
+tested
-no dumpsters nearby
-5h hike from the road
Gura Apelor, Romania
Location already scouted for the Hitchgathering/2024/proposals by K and L
+already scouted
+big lake
-no dumpsters nearby
-tourists might frequent location
Poland
S might have a collective in Poland that would host us
Denmark
S and E might scout places there.
Pre- and Postgatherings
Some rumours about a potential pregathering at somebody's parents' place have been spread.
Further Proposals
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