I haven’t been, but it looks like fun. There’s wet t-shirt contests on Friday and Saturday, mud wrestling, and lots of women who will flash. I think the size of the campground limits the attendance to 3000 or 4000 though.
http://members.coccozella.com/events/Thunder-in-the-Cascades.html
http://members.coccozella.com/KC-Snapshot/Thunder-in-the-Cascades-2007.html
http://members.coccozella.com/FetishPhotog/Thunder-in-the-Cascades-2006.html
FetishPhotog has been, but in case he doesn’t reply to your message I’m copy-pasting his event report from 2006:
“Thunder in the Cascades Thunder in the Cascades is a little party that’s been happening for several years outside of the western Pennsylvania town of New Castle during the end of June/beginning of July. I have a highly scheduled summer this year and needed to find a party over the weekend before the Fourth of July. There were only two choices within my range and I went to the ABATE rally in Algona, Iowa, last year so I decided to try Thunder in the Cascades this year. I’m not sure that I made the best choice.
The word that best describes Thunder in the Cascades is “small”. As you know, every good party requires a certain critical mass to really take off and this is especially true at parties where some people get naked as it’s really only a very small minority of total party-goers who do show skin. Let’s say it’s 2% of women who do show something (plus an even smaller percentage of the men). At a party of 20,000 or so like Hogrock, that’s 400 people getting some degree of naked and 400 is a nice big number in a relatively confined area. But at a party of only about 2,000 like Thunder in the Cascades, that only equals about 40 naked people? Not really enough to get things rolling and difficult to find.
Thunder in the Cascades gave every indication of being a fine party for most attendees: people talking, laughing, eating, drinking and drinking some more all over the place. But it wasn’t the most productive environment for someone looking to take pictures of naked people. Come to think of it, there weren’t even any naked men and every other party I’ve attended has had at least some of those. So after bad weather on Thursday I got there on Friday, took pictures of the wet t-shirt contest on Friday evening, took some of women on the mechanical bull and then got up early and took off on Saturday morning. Now, of course, someone who stayed Saturday and Saturday night will probably tell me about all of the most amazing things that I missed but the odds just didn’t look to be in my favor and I had other places that I knew would be more productive in other ways. Thunder in the Cascades didn’t fail me, however, in one way.
Every party I’ve attended has had at least one activity I’ve never seen before. This time it was “Pussie Cups”: A few local strippers were making money charging people for the opportunity of consuming a Jello shot from under the front of their thongs. Unfortunately not much to photograph as people’s heads were pretty much in the way. And I have to also note the most people I’ve ever seen on a golf cart - I think there were ten. Too bad they weren’t naked.
So the bottom line of Thunder in the Cascades is nice little party but just too little for my purposes.”
