Sound Healing Retreat Campout
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Here’s the address:
145 Wooden Bridge Road, Kalama, WA
(Specific directions posted below)
I will email everyone toward the end of July with extra details. Look out for my email!
There’s many things to consider bringing for a camping trip, and particularly for a retreat campout!
Here’s a printable list:
https://docs.google.com/document/checklist
How to find the property and the place to camp within the property
Exiting from the 5 freeway, you will pretty much be following alongside the Kalama River on Kalama River Rd until you turn into the property.
You’ll be on that road for roughly 10 miles (not exact – look up details on maps for exact mileage), so it is OK when you see the sign that says the road dead ends up ahead – it dead ends several miles past the property…
You’ll come to a fork at some point, be sure to stay on Kalama River Rd:
Maps will tell you to then turn onto Wooden Bridge Rd. It’ll look like this, and it’s indeed a wooden bridge, but perfectly safe for our trucks, vans and cars:
Here’s what it’ll look like as you turn onto it, and be sure to go slow, as the end has a bump downward:
Once you cross the first bridge, take an immediate left at the “145 welcome to wooden bridge sign” on the tree. It’s easy to miss. The following pictures are what you’ll see as you come up to the property and turn into it.
You’ll go over the second wooden bridge, and the property owner’s house is up there on the right.
This is what you’ll see after crossing the 2nd bridge.
Behind the house is the road that leads to the retreat.
Continue following it a little ways more. There aren’t any pictures of this, but as you go past the house on the right it’ll take a sharp left. You can reposition your car by backing up if you need to, making a 3 point turn perhaps as there’s plenty of room to do so, to then be able to go up the gravel hill straighter with your car. This is a MUCH better improvement than when I went there years ago and it was just dirt and big rocks on the road… And they will use a gravel compactor before the retreat, making this part of the drive easier.
But, for now, being a gravel road at this point with hills, we recommend you keep slow. Owner states 5 mph for a 4 wheel drive or 10-15 mph for 2 wheel drive should work well. I believe I was going almost 20 but felt as if my tires might spin out if I went any faster, so I will try slower next time! All kinds of cars (vans, trucks) under 7k lbs can traverse this area… No RVs or trailers though.
You’ll pass the main field on your left, as you continue straight. The next sign you come across will be this (the picture below), which is really hard to read from the car, but is saying the main stage is that left…
Although it is very hard to tell from the sign, you’ll want to keep going STRAIGHT for family camp, so keeping trucking along this road… Just perhaps note where this main stage area is…
Then you’ll see their little garden on the left, and a fork… Straight ahead is the Dome, so if you’re sleeping there, then go straight (left at fork) toward the dome. You can also pitch a tent there if you’d like…
But for the main family camp area and Cabin, take the right turn.
For family camp, after you take the right at the fork, you’ll see this:
When you see this septic flushable bathroom, you’ll know you’re pulling up to Family Camp! There should be a left hand turn about this point toward the Cabin. You can camp anywhere in Family Camp, which stays mostly shaded, except the area you see by the bathroom…
You’ll see the Family Camp sign there across from the bathroom under this tree (it’s hard to see the sign in this photo, but it is there under that tree):
You’ve arrived!!
Pull in and pitch your tent, the river to though the path at the end of Family Camp, and enjoy Friday afternoon until festivities start at 7pm at the Main Stage!
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