Here's a nifty camping trick for blender drinks. It works ok.
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- Wed Jul 15, 2020 12:20 am
- Forum: Food & Drink
- Topic: Freeze Dried shortage
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2127
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 12:07 am
- Forum: Food & Drink
- Topic: boil the microwave rice pouch
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1255
Re: boil the microwave rice pouch
Yep, put it on the dashboard of your car. Park facing southwest for warm dinner.
The thing is, those pouch meals (generally) don't need actual cooking. They're meant to be warmed up but are often totally serviceable at ambient playa temperature, unless your feeling a need for a proper meal.
The thing is, those pouch meals (generally) don't need actual cooking. They're meant to be warmed up but are often totally serviceable at ambient playa temperature, unless your feeling a need for a proper meal.
- Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:42 pm
- Forum: Tickets Discussion
- Topic: So who is still going?
- Replies: 140
- Views: 14400
Re: So who is still going?
I've been daydreaming of the same thing.
We'd need to be extra careful about LNT
We'd need to be extra careful about LNT
- Sat Apr 11, 2020 11:18 am
- Forum: Q & A Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Paper or Plastic?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5308
Re: Paper or Plastic?
Yep nope,
Stainless steel and titanium everything has gone well for me. It's indestructible easier to clean than plastic.
Playa dust is pretty good as a cleaning agent. I use it and finish with a spray of vinegar; and wipe clean paper towel which goes in the burn barrel.
Stainless steel and titanium everything has gone well for me. It's indestructible easier to clean than plastic.
Playa dust is pretty good as a cleaning agent. I use it and finish with a spray of vinegar; and wipe clean paper towel which goes in the burn barrel.
- Sat Apr 11, 2020 11:06 am
- Forum: Q & A Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Playa foot
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12317
Re: Playa foot
Never had it.
Boots gave me blisters one year so I switched to sneakers and never went back.
A daily vinegar wipe between the toes and clean socks has been fine for me. I go barefoot sometimes too. Just lucky I guess.
Boots gave me blisters one year so I switched to sneakers and never went back.
A daily vinegar wipe between the toes and clean socks has been fine for me. I go barefoot sometimes too. Just lucky I guess.
- Sat Feb 15, 2020 11:20 am
- Forum: Clothing & Playawear
- Topic: Capes and Cloaks
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5096
Re: Capes and Cloaks
Ya, I was wondering about a cloak.
I'm curious about details like the density of the fabric weave. Would loose weave muslin let too much sunlight through?
Has anyone found a cloak that is breezy and cool in the sun and also warm at night?
I'm curious about details like the density of the fabric weave. Would loose weave muslin let too much sunlight through?
Has anyone found a cloak that is breezy and cool in the sun and also warm at night?
- Tue Jan 14, 2020 3:59 pm
- Forum: Building Camps & Villages
- Topic: shade type and size
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1788
Re: shade type and size
Stretch fabric is nicer than tarp because it doesn't make noise in the wind. You can sew it together into big pieces and wash it in a washing machine
- Mon Dec 23, 2019 1:03 pm
- Forum: Leave No Trace
- Topic: Burning Man Project wants more of your $$$
- Replies: 38
- Views: 7533
Re: Burning Man Project wants more of your $$$
We need to LNT our CO2. One of the greatest strengths of Black Rock City is that we rebuild it each time. This gives us a unique flexibility to try new seemingly impossible ideas, create new seemingly impossible art and make seemingly impossible reductions on our carbon footprint. So more than any o...
- Sun Dec 22, 2019 5:23 pm
- Forum: Keeping Cool
- Topic: Portable ice makers?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4307
Re: Portable ice makers?
I've brought an ice maker the last two years. It's great! This year I put it in the shade and it did a lot better. The thing runs well on solar. The battery gets charged in the morning before the day gets hot. Then I can make use of the excess solar power during the hottest part of the day by servin...
- Sun Dec 22, 2019 4:55 pm
- Forum: Q & A Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Cheap Hand Wash Sink With Foot Pump
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1275
Cheap Hand Wash Sink With Foot Pump
https://www.instructables.com/id/Field-Sink/
This is a nifty way to save water and not contaminate your hands after washing.
It uses an outboard motor fuel priming bulb as a foot pump. Brilliant!
This is a nifty way to save water and not contaminate your hands after washing.
It uses an outboard motor fuel priming bulb as a foot pump. Brilliant!
- Sun Dec 22, 2019 4:47 pm
- Forum: Power & Electronics
- Topic: To all you assholes with generators,
- Replies: 104
- Views: 24191
Re: To all you assholes with generators,
Shane Billingham
- Wed Dec 18, 2019 9:05 pm
- Forum: Building Camps & Villages
- Topic: Solar chimney + unpowered swamp cooler
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11243
Re: Solar chimney + unpowered swamp cooler
Has anyone gone ahead and done a proper thermal chimney or reverse stack yet?
- Tue Dec 17, 2019 5:05 pm
- Forum: Building Camps & Villages
- Topic: Shade structure design - feeback / advice please!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5249
Re: Shade structure design - feeback / advice please!
@azymuth In your drawing the support poles are on an angle. This is fine and/but in my experience there hasn't been much practical difference between vertical poles and angled poles except that vertical poles take up more space. Of course the pole angle is going to be more or less stable relative to...
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:57 pm
- Forum: Power & Electronics
- Topic: Sharing Large Generator
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6036
Re: Sharing Large Generator
Another win for solar this year :D After a few minutes of rejigging I've got my lithium solar rig humming along quite nicely. It charges the battery in like an hour or two even if it's cloudy, and after that it's all electric gravy for things like other people's batteries, a buffer massage station, ...
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 4:37 pm
- Forum: Clothing & Playawear
- Topic: laundry on the playa?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 30936
Re: laundry on the playa?
I did laundry in the shower again. This time I wish I'd brought clothes pegs XD
- Sun Oct 06, 2019 8:09 am
- Forum: Rideshares & Resource Sharing
- Topic: RV split - you get Thur-sun
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6211
Re: RV split - you get Thur-sun
Glad it worked out 

- Sat Oct 05, 2019 1:30 am
- Forum: Rideshares & Resource Sharing
- Topic: Stranded!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1672
Re: Stranded!
When this happened to my ride we 'burped' the radiator and that fixed it.
It is common to have overheating in cars that have recently had their radiator serviced.
It is common to have overheating in cars that have recently had their radiator serviced.
- Fri Oct 04, 2019 3:01 pm
- Forum: Q & A Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Getting playa dust out of clothes
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2553
Re: Getting playa dust out of clothes
I noticed that my shade structure had some light coloured stains or bleached areas on it after I washed it. The cloth is cheapo stretchy cotton(?) spandex and it had sat dusty for a year before I washed it. Maybe the playa dust reacted with the fabric dye. Has anyone else encountered playa dust disc...
- Fri Oct 04, 2019 2:42 pm
- Forum: Q & A Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Shaving at Burning Man
- Replies: 65
- Views: 18191
Re: Shaving at Burning Man
Post burn report on straight razor shaving at TTITD: It works! Yes it's actually a compact shavette that I use, so there was no stropping or honing, just a double edge blade from the drug store. First shave was in a moving car bumping along the playa during early entry. Yes it was fine. No I wasn't ...
- Thu Oct 03, 2019 2:33 pm
- Forum: Building Camps & Villages
- Topic: Water infrastructure for camp showers
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8754
Re: Water infrastructure for camp showers
I hope this worked out 
For anyone designing water rigs for the playa, bear in mind two things.
One, gravity feed your water, it never burns out and never needs electricity.
Two, evaporation is worth investing in. Get evaporation right and you eliminate an expensive ongoing cost.

For anyone designing water rigs for the playa, bear in mind two things.
One, gravity feed your water, it never burns out and never needs electricity.
Two, evaporation is worth investing in. Get evaporation right and you eliminate an expensive ongoing cost.
- Thu Sep 26, 2019 2:38 pm
- Forum: Building Camps & Villages
- Topic: Advice for what NOT to bring as a birgin tenter
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5007
Re: Advice for what NOT to bring as a birgin tenter
-Don't bring a janky bike. Bring a properly maintained bike. -Don't bring a 2000Watt generator to charge a cell phone. Bring a bit of solar. -Don't bring your cellphone. This may be your only opportunity to really unplug. -Don't bring a 2000W generator to run a 2100W air conditioner and then realize...
- Fri Sep 13, 2019 1:18 pm
- Forum: Building Camps & Villages
- Topic: I made a Freeform Stretch Tent!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3439
I made a Freeform Stretch Tent!
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48728580291_93d1e66ca9_z.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48728754067_ba85199a4b_k.jpg And the original that I copied from: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48728269898_522dc5cac2_k.jpg TLDR: It works. Cheap, flexible, repairable. One person set up. Fou...
- Sat Aug 10, 2019 8:49 pm
- Forum: Q & A Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Shaving at Burning Man
- Replies: 65
- Views: 18191
Re: Shaving at Burning Man
I've since moved on to a super cheapo 'shavette' mini straight razor with a finger ring. It takes disposable double edged blades from a safety razor. The result is zero clogs and fewer nicks, surprisingly. I'll see how it works on the playa in a couple weeks.
- Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:14 am
- Forum: Bikes & Transportation
- Topic: Mountain bikers... full suspension or hardtail?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3105
Re: Mountain bikers... full suspension or hardtail?
Bear in mind that playa dust destroys the tender bits of bicycles. You might want to forego the full suspension for a simple springy seat on a hard tail. This could give you most of the comfort and avoid deterioration of your nice full suspension bike. My personal favorite is a single speed with a s...
- Wed Apr 24, 2019 8:19 am
- Forum: Bikes & Transportation
- Topic: How 'BIG' is burning Man (Physical size of site)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 35931
Re: How 'BIG' is burning Man (Physical size of site)
Okay birgins, listen up. This is important. She'd tell me to go ahead, then get pissed off at me for going off and doing my own thing. That right there is probably the bigger issue. I invited a dear friend to TTITD and quickly remembered that radical self reliance can sometimes mean emotional self r...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:46 am
- Forum: Clothing & Playawear
- Topic: Glasses
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4352
Re: Glasses
Ah yes, ski goggles are what I use for sunglasses over my glasses. I haven't needed them at night.
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 8:36 am
- Forum: Clothing & Playawear
- Topic: Nose filters?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5308
Re: Nose filters?
Did anyone else try these?
- Sun Apr 14, 2019 9:39 am
- Forum: Clothing & Playawear
- Topic: Glasses
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4352
Re: Glasses
I may be wrong but it almost seems like playa dust grabs oil off glasses lenses. I've wiped dust off my glasses using my t-shirt and they seem to come out as clean as if I'd used soap and water; no smudges.
Anyone else have this experience?
Anyone else have this experience?
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 1:09 pm
- Forum: Power & Electronics
- Topic: Need a soldering iron on the playa??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5280
Re: Need a soldering iron on the playa??
Another vote here for butane soldering irons. Due to their autonomy, they're especially handy if ever you need to repair your main electrical system.
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 2:36 pm
- Forum: Q & A Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Lactating Mommas: Need Advice
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4327
Re: Lactating Mommas: Need Advice
Brilliant!