Ride Sharing
Looking to share a ride and carpool to the festival? Visit our High Sierra Ride Board.

Recycling
Once again, High Sierra is excited to be working with Clean Vibes, a company formed and dedicated to responsible on-site waste management of outdoor festivals and events. For the tenth year, Clean Vibes will be onsite helping to ensure that we as a community recycle as much of the waste produced on site as possible. With the help of the festival goers, Clean Vibes will divert tens of thousands of pounds of recyclables from the landfill.

In order for Clean Vibes to do the best possible job, they need your help! When arriving, each vehicle will be given two bags: one for trash and one for recycling. Any glass, aluminum, and plastic beverage containers can be recycled. You can carry your bags to the nearest dumpster or collection station, and use the collection stations around the venue which will be regularly maintained by Clean Vibes volunteers and staff. You can also help Clean Vibes sweep the concert field at the conclusion of each night's shows on the Grandstand and Big Meadow stages. Think before you throw - and the material in the recycling dumpster will be spared from the landfill! While enjoying this beautiful site, please help Clean Vibes cultivate cleanliness and ensure that we as a community leave nothing but footprints this weekend. More information will be available in the High Sierra program guide, and you can also visit the Clean Vibes website.

Interested in volunteering with Clean Vibes?
Clean Vibes is always looking for folks who are interested in volunteering during and after the festival. Volunteers are needed during the festival to help service the collection containers throughout the site, keep the grounds clean, and sort recycling. Volunteers are also needed for the post event cleanup – working on the Monday and Tuesday after the event to help ensure that we leave the fairgrounds cleaner than we found it. For more info, head over to cleanvibes.com.

Red, White, Blue and Green Campsite Challenge

With thousands of people camping on the fairgrounds, it is vitally important for HSMF fans to embrace the "Leave No Trace" camping philosophy. In collaboration with the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics, we will be honoring campsites that excel in creative, sustainable camping. Tips on greening your campsite are available for download here.

How Do I Participate?
First, arriving to the festival in as green a fashion as possible is part of the equation (hike, bike, public transit, carpool). Other than that, it's all about how green your camp is (greening tips available here). Anyone camping on the fairgrounds (i.e. not at Mill Creek or the RV annex) is invited to nominate their own campsite or one of your neighbors:
1. Take a digital photo of the campsite being entered into the contest.
2. Bring your memory card to the LNT booth in the music meadow and print out your photos.
3. Submit a campsite entry form along with your printed photos detailing location and how the site and campers are minimizing their impact using Leave No Trace skills and ethics.
4. Visit the Leave No Trace booth each day to comment on the latest campsite entries. Finalists will be chosen daily by LNT, High Sierra staff and HSMF fans.
5. High Sierra and Leave No Trace will select the grand prize winner on Sunday afternoon. The winner will be announced from the Grandstand Stage on Sunday evening, as well as in our post-fest eNewsletter and on highsierramusic.com.

How Do I Win?
It's simple. Just enter your campsite and each day we will randomly select one campsite as a finalist. Finalists will then be judged on three criteria:
1. Cleanliness. Are you repackaging the food you bring? Are you keeping a tidy campsite? Are items secure and not susceptible to wind gusts?
2. Sustainability. Are you separating recycling and compost? Are you reusing products? Are you using alternative energy sources? Did you bike or carpool to the festival? Are you offsetting carbon emissions? Did you do anything to reduce your home's energy while attending the festival?
3. Creativity. Does your campsite have a theme? Are you utilizing unique and innovative camping techniques?

What Do I Win?
Prizes for daily finalists include:
• HSMF gear
• Late Night tickets (one pair for each day's finalist to the show of their choosing on that night)
• Leave No Trace memberships
Grand prize:
• Coleman camping gear. Tents, backpacks, sleeping bags and other awesome prizes for your next camp out!

Composting
Since 2007, we have had a composting program, partnering with local Plumas county farmers to keep organic scrap by-products created by our food vendors, caterers, and hospitality staff out of the landfill. In 2010, with the help of local farmers, the Plumas Rural Services Community Connections program, and Clean Vibes we successfully expanded our composting efforts festival-wide.

Interested in volunteering with Clean Vibes to help the composting effort? Visit cleanvibes.com