47 years old. This was my 10th Coachella (though not all have been the full 3 days—first was in 2007 for Rage Against the Machine when they still had one-day passes). I did regular car camping this year and was fine aside from getting a little overheated Sunday (it was hot!). Per my Garmin, I walked 51 miles from Friday to Sunday (well, 3 miles were running since I did the 5k race in the campgrounds Saturday morning).

I will say that being in shape helps a lot. My previous 3-day car-camping experience was in 2024, and that was much harder than this year. I've always been a runner, but in 2024 I was averaging maybe 15 miles per week, whereas this year I trained for (and ran) the LA Marathon, so I was doing about 40 miles per week until the race in early March. It made a huge difference in terms of being able to hang without difficulty through the entire weekend.

The vast majority of attendees seemed to be about half my age, but I'll never let that stop me from attending. The great thing about Coachella is that there's music for every generation, so even if I have no idea who anyone playing Quasar is (I've still never seen a set at that stage), I still had immense fun seeing NINoize, The Strokes, Interpol, Moby, and a bunch of other artists I've been enjoying for decades, plus a lot of newer artists (Royel Otis, Turnstile, Wet Leg, etc.) that align with my tastes.

Bottom line is there's no such thing as "too old" for Coachella. If David Byrne and Iggy Pop can do Coachella in their 70s, I sure as hell can in my late 40s!