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- Sun Jul 28, 2019 11:32 pm
- Forum: Food & Drink
- Topic: Freezing water bottles
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12577
Re: Freezing water bottles
Hi, new person here. I've read that you can put the blue ice packs back into a cooler with dry ice and they will refreeze, would this work with soda bottles of water or is that too much mass? Rather than ice packs, consider using something edible. I've used capri suns for several years and they wor...
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:23 am
- Forum: Food & Drink
- Topic: Cooler and ice management and you.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 13002
Re: Cooler and ice management and you.
This is how we keep our coolers from every having water in them: Dry Bags and cereal dispensers. Dry bags are rollable bags of heavy duty clear plastic that white water rafters use to keep their stuff dry on the water. I have had ziplocs fail on me, drybags are better. The dry bags are great for blo...
- Sat Jul 20, 2019 9:52 am
- Forum: Clothing & Playawear
- Topic: HAIR concerns on the playa? ;)
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10325
Re: HAIR concerns on the playa? ;)
I have long hair, been burning for 12 years, and this is what I have learned: *whenever you're going to wash dusty hair, rinse it first with either diluted conditioner or diluted vinegar, to loosen the dust. Then shampoo. Shampoo is terrible at removing alkaline dust, it's really more of a solvent f...
- Sat Jul 20, 2019 9:48 am
- Forum: Clothing & Playawear
- Topic: HAIR concerns on the playa? ;)
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10325
Re: HAIR concerns on the playa? ;)
I have long hair, been burning for 12 years, and this is what I have learned: *whenever you're going to wash dusty hair, rinse it first with either diluted conditioner or diluted vinegar, to loosen the dust. Then shampoo. Shampoo is terrible at removing alkaline dust, it's really more of a solvent f...
- Tue Aug 15, 2017 9:14 pm
- Forum: Building Camps & Villages
- Topic: Advice? Building a Raised Plywood Deck for My Pirate Ship (as you do)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1385
Re: Advice? Building a Raised Plywood Deck for My Pirate Ship (as you do)
Awesome advice, Token! Re; Shear walls - I am bolting the posts to the ship (U shaped deck post ties with flanges on either side), which is plenty heavy. I'm thinking that will act as shear walls, but if not, Should the ply shear walls you suggested be placed near the top, center or bottom of the po...
- Tue Aug 15, 2017 1:18 pm
- Forum: Building Camps & Villages
- Topic: Advice? Building a Raised Plywood Deck for My Pirate Ship (as you do)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1385
Advice? Building a Raised Plywood Deck for My Pirate Ship (as you do)
So I've built a 26' wooden pirate galleon for my camp and want to add a raised deck to the inside back of the ship. The deck will be 8' square and 6' off the ground. I have a general idea of how I'd do this to code in Defaultlandia, but would love advice about how other folks have built theirs for t...
- Sun Aug 06, 2017 10:17 pm
- Forum: Food & Drink
- Topic: Food/Drink: What worked - what didnt
- Replies: 203
- Views: 51763
Re: Food/Drink: What worked - what didnt
For a fancy on-playa dinner party I premade dates stuffed with goat cheese and wrapped in bacon ( I think they might be called 'devils on horeseback'). I slightly undercooked the bacon, vacuum-sealed and froze the completed hors d'oeuvres, and then on playa toasted these up in a hot pan for a minute...
- Sun Aug 06, 2017 5:57 pm
- Forum: Food & Drink
- Topic: Batch Cooking
- Replies: 37
- Views: 11226
Re: Batch Cooking
Protip - if you'd like to vacuum-seal liquids, like soups, just freeze them first 

- Sat Feb 25, 2017 5:50 pm
- Forum: Power & Electronics
- Topic: Suggestions for Lighting Our Camp Frontage Display
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5808
Re: Suggestions for Lighting Our Camp Frontage Display
[quote="EmilyD"] I will definitely document and report back BSG! Luckily someone in our camp volunteered to weld some 1/4" nuts onto the EMT so we could screw not only the thumb screws into the pipe but also an eye screw up top which we'll thread the LED string lights through (using a caribeener).[/...
- Wed Aug 06, 2014 11:16 am
- Forum: Q & A Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Best make & model dust mask & goggles
- Replies: 25
- Views: 44075
Re: Best make & model dust mask & goggles
This will be my 9th year and I'm tellin' ya: this is the BEST dust mask of all time. Comfy, washable, $29, great fit and filtering.
http://www.mu2sportsmask.com/
http://www.mu2sportsmask.com/
- Thu Jul 31, 2014 12:16 am
- Forum: Keeping Cool
- Topic: Figjam Swamp Cooler OR?! Ice+cooler+fan contraption?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3196
Figjam Swamp Cooler OR?! Ice+cooler+fan contraption?
Hi Everyone! I've seen Figjam's very cool bucket swamp cooler design: http://burners.me/2012/07/30/figjam-how-to-make-a-bucket-cooler/ and was planing on building that. A friend then brought this to my attention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITtlxjvLQis&feature=youtu.be Which is a standard small ...
- Wed Jul 30, 2014 11:49 pm
- Forum: Keeping Cool
- Topic: Turning swamp cooler on at dawn
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1964
Re: Turning swamp cooler on at dawn
OR . . just use a solar panel as your power source 

- Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:43 pm
- Forum: Food & Drink
- Topic: An alternative to bread bread bread?!?!?!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4686
Re: An alternative to bread bread bread?!?!?!
buy bread
open package at home
break into three ziplocks
store in cooler
open as needed
no problem.
open package at home
break into three ziplocks
store in cooler
open as needed
no problem.
- Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:34 am
- Forum: Clothing & Playawear
- Topic: SuperFabrics with Built-in Sunscreen and AC!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2186
SuperFabrics with Built-in Sunscreen and AC!
I'm all inspired to sew up some stuff . . and avoid getting swarmed by freckles like I was last year. I'm so Irish I can't tan at gunpoint. Anyway I found they make fabrics now with built-in SPF (for fabric it's called UPF), so I thought I'd pass it along. If you're sewing, why not use fabric that i...
- Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:48 pm
- Forum: Food & Drink
- Topic: playa hangover cure?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9509
That's an easy one
Hangovers are from dehydration. So drink a glass of water for every glass of booze - [b]while you're drinking[/b]. Or while you're doing something other than booze - you get the idea. It's not nearly as useful to do it the next day. If you wake up miserable drink water that has electrolytes in it, s...
- Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:54 pm
- Forum: Building Camps & Villages
- Topic: Sealing up mesh panels/roof in a tent.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10008
Duct tape + playa = pretty silver ribbon
Nope - duct tape won't stick to a tent that has ANY dust on it. Maybe if you did it before arriving. . .but I doubt it would stay and if it didn't - no back up.
I'm going to try the glue gun thing myself soon. If that doesn't work it's off to the sewing machine <<shudder>>.
I'm going to try the glue gun thing myself soon. If that doesn't work it's off to the sewing machine <<shudder>>.
- Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:45 pm
- Forum: Power & Electronics
- Topic: Glowies, Blinkies, UVies & Other Illuminations
- Replies: 845
- Views: 238365
Come, Join the Anti-Glowstick Movement
No more glowsticks, I'm begging you! At the end of BM last year there were giant piles of those things just waiting to be carted to a landfill. They don't rot and they don't burn well. Buy a reusable light stick instead! Wallmart has a great one that has different colors and light patterns for under...
- Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:37 pm
- Forum: Food & Drink
- Topic: Dining on the Playa - What do you bring to eat?
- Replies: 120
- Views: 32659
No More Cooler Gray Water
I have an extra cooler I bring that's 1/2 dry ice and 1/2 gel ice packs. You can also use those fruit punches that come sealed in foil bags that you punch into with a straw . . use them as ice packs, drink as the week goes on! Keep the dry ice cooler in the shade and wrapped up, open once each night...