What's on your "Essential Items" list, that's not on the Survival Guide?
I'm heading back out to the Playa this year (after nearly 4 years-My Daughter was born on BM weekend-that's what I get for swearing I'd NEVER miss a Burn), and was wondering what new innovations people have discovered or have come up with in that time that I might not be aware of.
Also feel free to add your favorite playa toys, camp items, gadgets, modes of transportation etc. that you love to bring out to the Playa.
DirtyDiablo
Essential Items?
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DirtyDiablo
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Essential Items?
"Take me to the Desert, Drop me on the Playa"
"Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here"
"Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here"
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geekster
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I don't know if they mention it but ... LIP BALM!!! You might want a kind with sunscreen. My lips were fucking killing me by Wednesday morning, but someone just happened to ride by and toss me a lip balm on a string I could wear around my neck. Saved my burn.
Latex gloves for that moment when you run into a particularly nasty mess.
Make sure you have a spare tire AND A JACK and you know where it is and you know how to use it. Make sure the spare actually holds air. Practice changing a tire before you leave. Many places along the route have no cell phone service so you aren't going to be calling AAA. Take a strong board to place under the jack in case you are in softer sand.
Make sure you have some kind of hazard warning, flares, reflector, cones, something ... to warn other drivers in case you have problems so things aren't made even worse.
Extra rope.
Extra stakes.
Extra sharpie marker.
Grease pencil.
Extra notepad
Lung sucking fuel air bomb.
Oh, and condoms and ear plugs. Even if you dont' use em, you can gift em.
Latex gloves for that moment when you run into a particularly nasty mess.
Make sure you have a spare tire AND A JACK and you know where it is and you know how to use it. Make sure the spare actually holds air. Practice changing a tire before you leave. Many places along the route have no cell phone service so you aren't going to be calling AAA. Take a strong board to place under the jack in case you are in softer sand.
Make sure you have some kind of hazard warning, flares, reflector, cones, something ... to warn other drivers in case you have problems so things aren't made even worse.
Extra rope.
Extra stakes.
Extra sharpie marker.
Grease pencil.
Extra notepad
Lung sucking fuel air bomb.
Oh, and condoms and ear plugs. Even if you dont' use em, you can gift em.
Pabst Blue Ribbon - The beer that made Gerlach famous.
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HughMungus
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Ha. I just got a flat the other day and while changing the tire (for the first time ever on this vehicle) I thought, "This is good practice for the playa." It was also good to find out, before needing to drive a great distance without access to any kind of help, that my spare was a somewhat flat.geekster wrote:Practice changing a tire before you leave.
Louise and I do a "things you didn't know you'd need," and we got some feed back that the saline nasal spray was the best item on the list. YMWV.
http://www.cieux.com/bm/things.html
I couldn't survive without earplugs to sleep at night. Louise couldn't get along without vaseline, as it moisturizes better than moisturizing lotion in the corners of her eyes (lots of tearing on the playa), and we've shared out the contents of our first aid kit on more than one occasion. I'm always surprised people don't bring at least bandaids.
http://www.cieux.com/bm/things.html
I couldn't survive without earplugs to sleep at night. Louise couldn't get along without vaseline, as it moisturizes better than moisturizing lotion in the corners of her eyes (lots of tearing on the playa), and we've shared out the contents of our first aid kit on more than one occasion. I'm always surprised people don't bring at least bandaids.