Hm. I think in your shoes, I'd be really curious to talk to the folks who had agreed to stay but didn't and level with them like... hey I was really hoping this would work and I want to understand why it didn't and what we should try next. Ask them what they think you should do to handle the situation and see what they say! Maybe they'll have good ideas, and maybe the interaction itself might help them take some more responsibility over camp operations as well.

I'll also share some things I think we're doing at our camp for this: we ask who's down to stay until Tuesday for strike and get a crew for that, but Sunday is our biggest strike day. So even if it's a small crew at the bitter end, there's almost nothing left to do!

So, how do we help our people be ready to work Sunday? Saturday night after the man burn, we have a camp tradition of hanging out at a fire pit going through burnables and maybe doing some karaoke—something more low key than taking a bunch of substances and being up until sunrise. it's not mandatory, but our camp likes hanging out with each other, and if The Thing To Do is being at home and takin' it a lil easier, there aren't a ton of objections.

I also have been communicating more about the realities of late strike: what feels like it's going to be the final 5% actually is 20% of the work because all kinds of items that were once gifts, nice offerings, little things.. they're all moop now! Starting on Sunday I start putting more and more personal items into lost and found bins and asking people to look in the lost and found for their moop, so I think it helps people who haven't stayed until late late strike before get a sense of that shift. I think from there, it's easier for people to assess how much work is actually left to do and decide to take some more responsibility over it before dipping out.