Hitchgathering/2025

What?

The 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?

The Baltics were selected to host the 2025 Hitchgathering.

The exact location will be announced here. Most of the discussion regarding the location and scouting is currently happening on the Signal/Matrix-group

See here for all this year's proposals: 2025 Proposals and the vote results for this year's European Hitchgathering at the Voting page

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.

Pre- and Postgatherings

Some rumours about a potential pregathering at somebody's parents' place have been spread.

Further Proposals

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