Hitchgathering/2025

Celebrating the introduction of deposit on cans and plastic bottles, the 17th European Hitchgathering will take place in Austria from August 1st to August 15th 2025. Yay!

What? 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? There is no location fixed, yet. Do you have any ideas?

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.