Pilgrims supply their own cold meals for three days, including powdered coffee, hot chocolate, tea bags, instant hot breakfast cereal, as well as Read More
Category: Q & A – prepraring for departure & step-off
Answers to questions which pilgrims frequently ask about how to get to pilgrimage and how to prepare oneself for step-off
Question #7 – “What gear should I pack, and how should I pack it – and my tent?” – Pilgrimage 2025
In this post we’ll concentrate on what to pack for personal gear, and how to pack it — including your tent. See this webpage for explanations of ‘the basics’, and ‘the essentials’. Read More
Question #5 – “What’s this I heard about ‘check-in’ Thursday evening & rendezvous Friday morning?” – Pilgrimage 2025
That’s right. Upon arrival, every pilgrim without exception must check-in at Wood Park, Thursday between 4:30 to 10:30.
Click here to learn how to check-in, stress-free.
Click here to learn how to arrive at the check-in location Thursday after noon.
NOTE WELL: THE LAST SHUTTLE TO THE CHECK-IN LOCATION DEPARTS THE AURIESVILLE SHRINE PARKING LOT AT Read More
Question #4 – “Where can a pilgrim stay overnight Thursday, to be ready for step-off early Friday morning?” – Pilgrimage 2025
Once you’ve registered, begun to pray with fellow pilgrims, and requested the shuttle, it’s time to make plans to Read More
Question #1 – “What should I do first?” – Pilgrimage 2025
After registering, it’s time to do the one thing necessary. … Read More
The race is on. It’s now only two weeks — just 14 days — til Is this what’s stopping you? How to get it right from the beginning: forming a brigade – Pilgrimage 2025
Dear Fellow Pilgrim,
Over the many years of making pilgrimage and helping others to do the same, we have developed a series of steps that the organizers have learned from their experiences. When brigades fail to form or reform from year to year, it is usually because Read More
Question #1 – “What should I do first?” – Pilgrimage 2024
After registering, it’s time to do the one thing necessary. … Read More
Question #5 – “What’s this I heard about ‘check-in’ Thursday evening & rendezvous Friday morning?” 2023
That’s right. Every pilgrim without exception must check-in upon arrival at Wood Park, Thursday between 4:30 to 10:30.
Click here to learn how to check-in, stress-free.
Click here to learn how to arrive at the check-in location Thursday after noon.
For those pilgrims ONLY who arrive after 10:30 Thursday night, there is an alternate check-in Friday morning at 6:00am at Wood Park. This alternate check-in is NOT AN OPTION for pilgrims. It is a last resort, after all personal plans and efforts to arrive before 10:30 Thursday evening have fallen through.
Every pilgrim, without exception, must report to Read More
Question #4 – “Where can a pilgrim stay overnight Thursday, to be ready for step-off early Friday morning?” 2023
Once you’ve registered, begun to pray with fellow pilgrims, and requested the shuttle, it’s time to make plans to Read More
Question #1 – “What should I do first?” – Pilgrimage 2023
After registering, it’s time to do the one thing necessary. … Read More