Only buy a bike if you have a specific plan to donate it somewhere that can actually use it afterwards... tons of bicycles get left behind every year and are a big, sucky problem. There are tons of Burning Man bike "rental" services, from Playa Bike Repair, Hammer & Cyclery, the Kiwanis program in R...

The Hive containers from Boston will almost definitely be on A, as the Hive stretches from Esplanade to A. We were lucky enough to have the containers on a corner last year, so you could drive directly to them to pick up / drop off. Note that your stuff may be below the container, or next to it, onc...

Seriously, don't underestimate the power of a sandwich board or a big dry-erase board in front of your camp for getting the word out on events. Lots of people never even really look at the booklet, and just let serendipity guide them around the city.

Adam

Mostly likely 48 quart coolers; they would be 12 gallon coolers (4 quarts to a gallon). 48 gallon coolers would be... something. The reason Vulture can fit a bike box into a 14-15 cubic foot share is it's going to be tall and long, but very "skinny". A box five long and three feet tall but only one ...

We just received notification that Camp Cats!Cats!Cats! will be bowed up and pissing on everything in the vicinity of 7:15 and Horny. Man, your camp's middle of the night grilled cheese party absolutely saved me last year; I was crashing really hard due to skipping dinner (dumb, I know), and that f...

Are you sure that's all you need? 3 cubic feet, for example, would be one container 3 feet long by one foot wide by one foot tall. That's very small. The air mattress rolled up, alone, probably fills that space. You need to multiply out in all dimensions. A box 3' by 2' by 1' is 6 cubic feet. 3' by ...

Digital Apex appears to be at 10 & B.

How much extra habitable time do you estimate you get in your tent with the aluminet? What size do you use? I have no idea, really, as I've never done it another way. I definitely am not up when the sun comes up, so maybe an extra hour or two? It does heat up eventually though. I use a 21' by 15' o...

The only other thought I've had about shading my Kodiak has been to string an emergency blanket over the roof of my tent, using the exposed points of the flex-rod as tie-on points. Basically I'd lay an emergency blanket over my tent (not nearly large enough to cover it, so maybe I'd need two...), t...

Also, camps can and do move from year to year, sometimes quite drastically. The large-scale sound camps will be on 2 and 10, Center Camp will be Center Camp, but nothing else placement-wise is guaranteed from year to year.

Not only does this re-purpose perhaps the dumbest "80's wacky chase hijinks" scene i've ever seen... that damn chorus is going to be stuck in my head while riding around the playa.

The RV can sleep 5 people but we are just as happy if its just 4 people. Couple in the back bed, couple or single person in the over-the-cab bed, small or adaptable person on either the couch-bed or the table-bed. Any more than that and you are asking for a less-than-perfect week. . Double-plus on ...

Yeah, unless you've promised to help your camp tear down and pack up Sunday and are somehow instrumental or vital to that process, or for some reason you *absolutely* *must* see the Temple burn, don't bother coming back for Sunday.

My biggest piece of advice to my virgin self would be "Some of the best experiences you will have will be deeper into the city; don't limit yourself to just the Esplanade and Inner Playa" My first year was with a huge theme camp on the Esplanade, so I spent the first 2/3 of my burn without ever real...

Also, 40 seems pretty big for a brand new camp. It's not just the power structure of the three leaders; at that size you need either well-honed systems in place that can rein in playa anarchy that only come with stable leadership, or very clear areas of responsibility with people you can trust in va...

The weather has *finally* started to feel like spring around here, so to celebrate a bit...

St Louis! I always feel that the City Museum there is about as Burner as a museum can possibly get. "Hey, what if we made the basement into a bunch of caves?" "What if we took this 9 story circular product chute and made it into a slide?" "Wouldn't it be neat to collect all the neat edifices off bui...

Mikgus, that is amazing. Now that my MBA class is over and i'm back to teaching only undergrads, I can ramp my fitness schedule back up again. It's probably a bit over the top at the moment, but i'm currently digging it: Mon: strentgh/condition circuit w/ my PT Tues: spinning class Wed: 1/2 circuit ...

"Because he's the hero the playa deserves, just not the one it needs right now"

In honor of Easter weekend, the only version of JC Superstar you'll ever need... KABUKI JC Superstar

Oh, and also, consider getting in touch with the BRC Dept of Mobility: http://brcmobility.com/start-here/ They're a theme camp, but even if you don't camp with them, they organize deep-playa art tours on MVs, etc, for the mobility-challenged. I think they also loan out golf-carts and stuff for short...

3: When I sleep, I require a CPAP machine. So, we are in the process of figuring out a power source plan for that as well. Again, suggestions, experiences, help? Most CPAP machines can run just fine on DC power with an inverter. I've run mine off a deep-cycle marine battery with no issues, and you'...

TomServo wrote:

I am now imagining a deep playa art project with two hot-air-balloon sized floating eyes positioned to line up with the hills.

GreyCoyote wrote: Better to chase a harmless cover a few dozen yards than deal with a wandering dome.

Oh man, imagine a tattered "wandering dome" MV that looks like it's rolling across the deep playa...

lemur wrote:all the best shit happens in center camp.

That certainly explains the smell.

What would probably help your Indiegogo page is some information as to what the money is going towards. Is this all going towards books that you will be giving away after reading on the playa? Or is this also supposed to cover your ticket, travel costs, etc? People will probably be far more amenable...

I use the Camelbak Rim Runner. It's got the 3L reservoir so I don't need to make emergency trips back to camp to refill, the internal organizer pockets and stuff work pretty well (one the internal pouches fits my huge Leatherman perfectly), and it's got two mesh external pockets on the sides that fi...

This. Sounds. Fantastic.

The resellers tactics are to find people like your camp who are freaking, get them to pay a premium price for something the seller doesn't even have, then the seller goes & buys it cheaper when they become available in July-ish, and passes it on at the jacked up price to you. Listen all y'all this ...

I also can't stress enough the need to have a good organization system once you hit the playa, i.e. "your clothes are in this mini-closet, my clothes are in this mini-closet, snacks are in this shelf, this drawer is for communal glowy crap" etc etc. It's reallllly easy to let stuff get disorganized,...