You don't know how things work. Radical Self Reliance has become almost a rarity, I'd be curious to know if your friends actually showed up prepared literally as if no one else would be there. I do. ... First of all, they're not my friends. I don't know the OP or his friends. I just happen to agree...

There's zero lack of understanding from other posters. You and the OP lack understanding about how this works. DPW isn't soft and sensitive. They're tough and they get shit done mostly as volunteers. They don't owe you shit. With all due respect, I understand very well "how this works." Hence I ste...

It was hot as hell during the day. Like, can't move from your chair, risk heat exhaustion/stroke by moving about hot. Most of our camp sat in the shade with misting bottles waiting for the sun to go down all day. Don't ever remember a burn so hot and this was my 12th. First time I ever left early t...

This is a long thread so I did not read it all. I just did my first burn and everyone I met except for one was friendly. Me and a few virgin friends went to the blackhole not knowing what the bar was. As we went to enter a 20 somthing year old who said he worked at the gate told us to get lost and ...

My first burn was going to be 2006... then 2007... and each time the people who I was going to camp with dropped out. Finally in 2008 I said I'm going come hell or high water. And I went. On my own. It was mind blowing. Life changing. Surreal. The people who I was going to camp with never did go, bu...

FWIW, "experts" say that because of the wet weather, followed by the heat wave, the playa is going to be great -hard and flat and less dusty than usual. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Burning-Man-expert-Conditions-present-the-11881101.php I don't know... the last time there was a lake into the s...