Friday, July 31, 1970: On ski slope looking east towards ski lodge and Powder Puddle.
Fields in distance are filled with Powder Ridge campers.

On ski slope looking down at main stage.
Someone wrote me and is pretty sure the guys on the left
are the people he went to Powder Ridge with.

Main stage and south lighting tower.
On the graffiti-covered fence, in huge letters, "UM TUT SUM".
Never did find out what that meant.

Powder Puddle from ski lodge.
After a number of people get sick from the water, health warnings signs go up.
This one reads "Don't Swim in Pond Because it is Diseased".
Across the pond the fenced in area
behind the main stage.

East side of Powder Puddle looking south towards ski lodge.

No, that's not Jimi Hendrix
But given the reception from the music-starved crowd
it just as wll could have been.
All bands contracted to play at the festival were prohibited from doing
so by court injunction.Only Melanie defied the ban.
On Friday night two local bands, Jelba and Goodhill, played at Powder Ridge.
Though utilities had been cut off to the site on Thursday,
according to this article "Ronnie Boudreau, the manager of the recently-formed Jelba,
a New Haven rock group, said he stumbled onto an electrical outlet
and plugged in a guitar cord.
"When it worked," he said, "I said, 'Let's play.'"
By contrast when Melanie played,
the amps were powered by generators on Mr. Softee trucks.

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