Toorcamp is an interesting hacker camping trip held every other year.
This year (2012) I volunteered. Here is what I learned:
1) How to weld.
2) How to be bad ass in bicycle jousting, in which I crushed many, many opponents until my ultimate defeat at the hands of Sir LOLDong of Loldongia -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIicG43Iiu8
3) Don't try to drive a 50 foot truck in downtown areas.
4) 99+% of wireless users are hackable via man-in-the middle attacks - and the pineapple is an interesting tool - http://hakshop.myshopify.com/
Here are some of my posts with pictures.
https://plus.google.com/113618457816978698704/posts/WBtcPX5gWWn
https://plus.google.com/113618457816978698704/posts/BdyosFFxE1x
https://plus.google.com/113618457816978698704/posts/fEn32mw1m5u
https://plus.google.com/113618457816978698704/posts/HGqfxJn7v9z
https://plus.google.com/113618457816978698704/posts/bvjBvJvGGuE
Here are a few things that other people found interesting:
http://www.geekwire.com/2012/photo-week-laser-beam-pierces-sky-toorcamp/
And there are some other things out there on Toorcamp:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/security/20882/toorcamp-adventures-american-hacker-camp
Anyway, just in case you are interested in toorcamp, that's what it was like. Fun.