It will be December 4th.

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rangers are trained to have some discretion when discussing participants. Making a brief appearance here, with my "official" hat on. . . AntiM is correct: In the interests of privacy, Black Rock Rangers are asked not to discuss details of particular incidents in public forums. Serving as the Commun...

Not really kids playing "house", more like adults playing "city".

Wednesday night, starting at 10pm, the Playaflies went on a group "swarm". Leading the procession were the 20 or so "version 2.0" rigs that were indeed sequenced. So you weren't hallucinating, or at least not that part. I think there were nearly 40 of us in all, including the 1.0 rigs that just blin...

Skydive,

You might try making your request on the Rangers' Allcom list.

I'd be all for categorizing motorized scooters/mopeds with other motorized vehicles, and requiring that they be registered transpo for handicapped people, or mutated enough to be considered art cars.

Hey Rommel and Lilu, Thanks for being such great neighbors! (for the fourth year in a row)

Tristan speaks the truth. Michael Brown is the brainchild. In addition to the Chinchillas, Michael and his crew led a few workshops in 2007 to help others make their own playaflies.

DM, I was just coming here to report the same PM spam: Hello i am a nice good looking girl called Favour by name, i will like you to understand my writting towards you, Before contacting you i have go through your profile at burningman site, i will like you to be my life partner, with love and happi...

Fall inspection is over. The clean-up crew came back before Decom last weekend.

ive . . . heard from many burners of their adventure to burning man and how they were at burning man for longer than just the 8 days of the event. Please keep in mind that the event only lasts 8 days. Before and after that, the piece of playa we call Black Rock City is home to a small group of hard...

There seem to be a lot of rumors surrounding population figures. The population numbers as of noon each day of the event are the basis of user fee payments to the BLM. As such, these official counts are not widely distributed. Peak population was the highest it's ever been this year. But it did not ...

I'll chime in again and encourage anyone who feels they were the victim of "price gouging" to report it to the org. Now is the time. All the various departments are busy putting together their post-burn reports. If service vendors were violating their contracts, that's information they need to know....

In fact there are a number of Rangers and Gate/Perimeter crew who voluntarily miss the Burn each year in order to be a watchful presence in BRC and at the exit gate while most people are out enjoying the spectacle of the Man burning. Alas, it's a BIG city. And most of these people are already wiped ...

Why? What is the reason behind not bringing bikes? Well, you won't be allowed to have your bike within the crowded sitting/standing only room ringing the burn. So you'll have to leave your bike somewhere outside the teeming circle of humanity. This makes it vulnerable to theft. This may make it har...

The rumor that BLM ticket money goes to charity is completely without merit.

I'm a fan of Bad Attitude Bunny, this year's new companion to last year's Cheshire Cat.

why lie? is it really so hard to pick up a couple of gallons of water at any convenience or grocery store? Besides, as mentioned above, there are lots of reasons to have a couple of gallons with you--what if you have car problems and have to wait a few hours in the hear for help to arrive? what if y...

I was at the final policy announcement meeting at the BM office in San Francisco the first weekend of August. This is the official word: There will be no sign ups at the Info booth, nor will there be a vendor sign-up booth or station. The only way to get serviced is to see a truck and flag it down. ...

Just a quick shout out that the "black rock city" weather report on wunderground is actually the conditions reported at Lovelock, NV, which is about a hundred miles away(?) and at a different elevation than Black Rock City. So while that's a reasonable estimate of the weather on the playa, the playa...

That article is from June. I haven't heard of any issues with mud recently. This time of year people complain about the opposite problem--dust.

meincoif, there are actually instances of people in trucks cruising through camps and taking bikes, generators, etc during the burn almost every year. Rangers and gate staff volunteer to work instead of witnessing the burn to try and prevent the worst of it, but there's just not enough volunteers to...

I've never tried to build one. But an off-the-shelf evaporative cooler unit made it possible for me to nap through the hottest part of the afternoon in my yurt structure last year. When I have the money to swap out the a/c in my new-to-me little rv for an evaporative cooler, I'm going to do it. That...

I've always found it quite easy to find a stationary vehicle or structure in camp to lock my bike to when I'm not using it. Some sort of ground screw just seems like something extra to trip over.

The Lampman incident has nothing to do with this discussion, which is about the many reasons why driving while impaired is a stupid thing to do, especially on the playa.

Why does anyone think it's easier to see over sitting people, if you're sitting? You might have just as much trouble seeing straight ahead through seated heads surrounding you as you might seeing through a standing crowd. But if the first several rows are seated, they should all be able to have a l...

One of the many reasons the Rangers prefer to have at least the first five rows around the man seated is that it creates a buffer zone in which people who may attempt to run into the fire before the structure has fallen will be more visible. The last thing I think anyone out there wants is for someo...

There was a rainstorm late in the week during the 2002 event, but everything dried out within a few hours.

I think the big question is whether you will have things in your dome that would be permanently damaged by getting wet if it rains. If so, then you probably want to make sure the cover is water proof, just in case a storm rolls in while you're on the other side of Black Rock City. If not, then shade...

I buy enough Berocca to stockpile it on my infrequent trips to Australia. I find it's particularly effective as a hangover-helper. I've got a new find for playa food: hummus in a jar (no cooler required until the seal is broken). I found it at BevMo. I'm sure it can be found other places as well. Al...