LSD Trip Report: Camping

by Isokora

1 tab LSD
3 or 4 cans of beer
contant steady smoking of weed all day
31/7/03

Packing began at mid day, we had aimed to be camping by then but had gotten too high the night before and slept in. We had a few rounds of bongs and buckets and set off, after searching for a camp place for about an hour we returned to Continuitys village and met his aunt who was able to give us directions to a good area we could camp in. We pulled into Bridge of Garry carpark about 3 took a bong and headed into the woods to find a spot to pitch the tent. We walked along a path for about 10 mins climbed a steap hill where we stopped for a couple of rounds of bongs and to take in the view across the vally which the river snaked along, we then proceeded up till we found a nice open flat expance which we decided was going to be our camp. We returned to the car to gather our gear and had camp fully set up by around 5 or 6. Continuity and I went on a firewood collecting round while Missed and Elder set up the tent. We fucked around for a couple of hours, having a 30 min smoking session in the tent from which I emerged in my boxers (due to the heat inside the tent) weilding an axe, I spent the next 10 or 20 minutes solid hacking a fallen branch in my black silk boxers yellow 'Pouchie' anime style top and trainers. Once I had finally made it through the branch, by which time everyone had come to watch me do, we sat around the fire feeding the munchies with beans and sausage, pizza, toast and finally duck which were all cooked by Missed over an open fire using a rack made by me and himself fashioned from wood. Continuity and I dropped our LSD (about 8:30) then Elder and I went to the car for the last time to pick up a quilt and Continuitys .22 air rifle. Once we returned with the gun and cover we went on a final wood collection from a huge fallen silver barked tree, this was about 30-45 mins I recon after Continuity and I had dropped out tabs suddenly it seemed to come over me, the whole little vally the fallen tree lay in was beautiful, I was lost for words. We spotted another fallen tree on the opposite side of the path to the silver firewood tree. This tree bridged the bottom few feet of the vally which was filled with ferns, moss inches thick and an army of spiders, I climbed up and started to cross but had to jump off 5 seconds later to avoid falling 'Ha! I've got anti slip soles, I'll be fine' Missed shouted behind me but the trip was kicking in now and I paid little attention. I looked up at the sky and the trees reaching upto it, blurring and mixing colours together. I ran over to Continuity who was standing on the stump of the silver tree gazing all around, I joined him and resumed my position staring at the tree tops for a few minutes before I noticed the car headlights on the road on the other side of the river, we then collected our last batch of firewood and headed back to camp.

Unfortunatly I felt sitting in the tent that the fire should hold nothing for me vizually, it seemed to keep me from tripping it seemed to real, an archor, it didn't dance how I wished it would so I retired to the tent for a bong and the others came in a few minutes later, Missed being the last as he was setting up the fire and finishing his beer. We settled into a small session. This was when my trip fully kicked in, I had a bucket and felt the need to lie upside down my eyes began to water though so I had to sit up agian and it took about 2 mins for them to stop which didn't bother me as the water running down my face and the effect the tears with the lights felt and looked fantastic. I can't remember much in the tent, the next thing I know we were outside again, we had a few bongs Missed and Elder continued to drink. After standing outside watching mostly the car headlamp across the river and seeing police car lights explode and glow all over the whole vally then dying repeatedly till it was out of sight. Elder went into the tent to get something but re-emeraged and complained it was soaking wet inside, quickly Missed went inside to try and rescue the tent, he came back out after a while and said it was saved and suggested we stayed outside and got high. We did for a while but decided to go back inside I was 1st in since Chris had been in and I couldn't see anything wrong, the tent looked fine. Everyone save Missed who was piling the last of the firewood on and finishing his beer got in then I realised why Missed wanted me to stay outside, my bag had gotten soaked the worst of all. We passed the bong to and fro Missed passed out 1st we had another couple of rounds before we lost the last lighter, we started to look for it but Elders candle went out and we were left in the dark. We kept searching for lighters for what seemed like ages, occasionally Missed would suggest we 'Just fuck it and goto sleep' which was unlikly while I was tripping as hard as I was. Between Continuity, Elder and myself we decided to leave camp for Daves house and come back early in the morning for what stuff we couldn't carry. Missed finally agreed to come after some persuding.

We left the tent I took a burning stick from the fire and Elder, Missed and Continuity lit candles hoping the light would be enough to get us to the path which lay about 50 foot away from the tent. After taking no more than a douzen steps my flaming stick snaps and had all but died by the time Missed has put out the fire andcaught up with me. We walked slowly towards the path, but of course it being pitch black and nothing but a candle and a mobile phone left for light we missed it. After we realised this we decided we had to continue up the hill instead of turning back which would lead towards the steap hill we had climbed earlier. We took off slowly and I managed to pick my way though by walking ahead of the others while they flicked lighters and when I found this impossible Missed would stumble drunkenly and carelessly through stopping 10 or 20 feet ahead and holding up his phone to guide us. We reached what seemed to be a high point and decided to stop turn out all lights and let our eyes adjust, we waited about a minute in vain. We had already spent about 20 mins more than the walk should have taken and we hadn't even reached the small road which lead for another 10 minutes or so down to the car. We set off agian but during the couple of minutes at the small peak I got the fear, the conversations ranged from one of us perishing into the enterance to the Underdark which seemed highly likly with all the spiders around, an attack of Deep ones as in the HP Lovecraft books about Dagon and plunging into some swamp, pool or river. Lucky my fears were lifted only a few mins after they had set in, within seconds of Continuity querying why we hadn't hit the road yet Missed crashed straight into a wall, over which was the road. We yeld and cheerd at finding the road 'Check how high it is before you jump over' Continuity said but before he ended the sentance Missed replied 'I'm over already and I myself was setting foot on the other side. At the top the road had no marking at the sides so every so often someone would stumble off into some bushes or not notice a turn in the road. Luckly I'm blessed with good night vision so I went ahead and kept us right for the rest of the way. Red, amber and green lights shone through the trees in what seemed like ever changing combinations, neither I nor Continuity could accept them as traffic lights and the others agreed. After watching these lights I noticed the road had markings and within a second or two we were on the juntion of another road confused by the lights which had been dismissed as train track lights on a bridge over the river we took a right and walked for 10 minutes or so by a huge house and down into darker and deeper countryside. Everyone began to snap, when we knew we were going the wrong way and we were fucked and had to turn back which ment at least the 10 minutes walking back. Cars past and we decided to try and stop one and find out just where we were, a couple went past before anyone actually put there had out and it was a taxi that turned the corner, with it's for hire sign on, I couldn't believe how lucky we were. But no, that would be premature, it drove straight by us so we walked on. We apporached the lights and quickly realised we were not near any train tracks but the traffic lights at the end of the bridge and we were not more than 50 feet from the car, running now we reached it and quickly we got in lost our soaked shoes, socks and jeans and waited. I was almost happy watching the traffic lights through the pane of glass sprakled with rain but there was no way any of us wanted to spend the night there so we left. The journey was great the cats eyes and signs all along the road lit up, split up divided and crossed and such a speed I could not believe I was in my friends car (who I thank for getting us back that night) we reached Continuitys home by about 12:30 and greeted his father in nothing but T shirts and boxers.

We all raced into the bedroom, closing the door, barricading it against everything outside, Missed was in bed and asleep within 5 minutes, Elder sat up for a joint before he to slowly but surely fell asleep leaving Continuity and I tripping harder than we realised. We both sat not knowing what we wanted to do, finally we decided latte would be a good idea but had to have cauppucino instead (which was the best I think I've ever tasted, I think it was due to the acid because I went out and bought them and the don't taste half as good as I remembered). We sat with the coffees for a while trying endlessly to fill the bucket kit which seemed impossible, we couldn't seem to get through the process of going to the bathroom to fill it, I couldn't decide if I wanted one which I never can when tripping, after about 15 mins of almost going we finally done it and settling down to buckets and FnL. We continuted though the night watching mostly Love Hina, Toyko Underground, Ghost in the Shell:Stand Alone Complex and Full Metal Panic. During the time in the room the trip seemed to kick back into effect, Continuitys background picture of an eye blinked and moved, patterns on the walls and bed spread opened out and contracted, twisted and turned. We finally went to sleep at 5am decided we couldn't hold off the 'pop' (come down) any longer by smoking weed. We were woken at 10am to return for all the gear we had left, the camp was a mess, the forest around looked terrible so we did our best and gatherd all the rubbish that hadn't been spread about in the night into a fire and quickly left hoping never to return.