Have you considered bringing a frozen cake? You could keep it on dry ice and not open the cooler, at all , until it's cake time. Thanks for all yr. responses; I think I like this one the best. I'm going to try the "tenting" thing referred to above, because I really want to try to make a cake out on...

Both of the drivers from the PDX segment of our camp want to leave bright & early Monday morning (they have to work on Tuesday). Does anyone who is leaving Tuesday (in the afternoon/evening) have a spot in their vehicle for me & my backpack? I'd be happy to help out with gas/help out with your camp'...

So, my birthday is September 5th.... I've been googling for camping-friendly cake recipies. I've found all manner of dutch-oven cake recipies, and I already have a big-ass dutch oven. However, they all assume cooking in campfires, and placing coals on top of yr. oven. The camp I'm with (Imagenode) h...

Sorry, I should have specified, given that you spoke specifically of the 2000 - is the 1000 similarly quiet so as to not require a box?

I was going to deal with how-to-charge-it after I had figured out whether or not what I wanted was possible. My half-baked plan was to make charging arrangements with friends in larger camps who are actually bringing serious generators. In fact, if that Honda e1000 generator is powerful enough, buil...

Thanks for your responses... this stuff is really helpful. You don't say why you want to do this. I've seen (ambient) "sound systems" on the playa the size of a soup can, but it sounds more like you want to put a rave on a bicycle. No, I actually want anti-rave on a bicycle. One of the things that i...

I'm currently toying around with the idea of building a car stereo into a bike trailer. I've read a few pages about the topic, but I'm having a hard time designing an optimal system. Most of the stuff I've read comes from one of two communities. There are British festival-attendees whose pages show ...