I find it bizarre that it's ok to scream "MOM!" or wail or sob or make any other approved noise, but not to talk about unapproved subjects or make any unapproved noise. Who decided that anyway? I was the one who screamed "Mom" btw, I do it every year. The rest of the time I'm silent, but that's beca...

If it wasn't performance, it ought to have been. That's brilliant. Seriously, you never know. I have played so many characters out there...back before there was cell reception, I spent an entire day in a business suit hopping art cars and taking turns yelling into a prop phone about portfolios and m...

What an awesome story! Thank you for this. My first year (several years ago), I went alone as well. I had heard about Burning Man from an acquaintance several years before *that*. Since I didn't know a soul there, and couldn't really ask anyone what to expect, I read the hell out of the survival gui...

Thank you for the advice! :) It's good to know that lots of the inhabitants of the walk-in area are work crews and early-arrival kids. Helps to get a sense of the community there. We actually would rather not camp on or near the edge, we're looking to shelter in a relatively B.F.E.-type isolated are...

Heya.

Witness Crew has plans for something relatively big which will require welding and carpentry, etc. Do you mean something Next Summer (2012) or This Summer That's Ending Right Now?

We are Seattle/Tacoma based. Where are you?

Greetings! Veteran Burner(s) here, wanting to try inhabiting a new part of BRC next year. Does anybody here have experience with walk in camping, or know someone who does it? We're a sturdy self-sufficient lot, and are fine with the logistics etc, just wanting to get perspective from someone who has...