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Somewhere out in deep playa, maybe around the Head Maze, my hat went missing.
I'll spare you the details , but if you found what you'd think as a fairly expensive, big city type of hat, Let me know and I can give more details.
What an amazing Burn that was for me. I hope people felt the same. Many memories I have being in that hat.
Goose--541633015six

TheGoose66 wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 19, 2019 9:15 pm

Somewhere out in deep playa, maybe around the Head Maze, my hat went missing.
I'll spare you the details , but if you found what you'd think as a fairly expensive, big city type of hat, Let me know and I can give more details.
What an amazing Burn that was for me. I hope people felt the same. Many memories I have being in that hat.
Goose--541633015six

Hi Goose,
It's been estimated that over 4000 hats have been lost on the playa each year. If you're looking to be reunited with your "big city type" hat, you may want to post a picture of it so whoever may have picked it up can know that it's yours. With so much dust on the playa this year, I don't think that describing your hat as orange will be helping identify it.
Best of luck in finding your hat.

I had, truly, one of the most amazing experiences coming to Burning Man for the first time. After 6 years of hearing about it from my wife, I took the leap of faith to get involved. Mind changing! My only negative was a guy in the Folly who got on me for "crushing the amazing art in this room with your yelling" and then the not so great advice I got at information center on how to deal with my lost hat.

It took multiple trips to lost and found and hours roaming the deep playa to find out that the clothing (non-essential) was already boxed up and shipped to San Francisco. I didn't understand why there were pictures of jackets on the data base computers, but no hats (4000 does seem like a huge number but only 5% of the population). He also said if I described it, some other person could swope in and claim it. Hence, the vague description.

I fully embraced the process of change that Burning Man showed me that I needed in my life. Among other things I am working on, I let go of that hat the moment I took it off my head to place a head lamp on my head. I am just not fully there and would love to wear that hat again.

That hat was indeed orange when I bought it, and has since metamorphosed to some other color. It may still be blowing on the playa somewhere or in a box or in someone else's found hat collection. It has 2 distinguishing features: a quarter -sized wood hand-engraved design of a rocket ship, and a hand-made fist-sized collage of fabric shapes and metal gears. Both were gifts which were my first Burning Man gifts. And it is a Goorin Bros. hat.

I still have memories of the hat and the symbolism of detachment of physical possessions. Embrace the change. This is my cathartic moment in which I release the desires of wearing that hat ever again. As I say, "Life is full of omissions" and I didn't, nor haven't, missed anything at Burning Man.

Sorry for the long-winded description of the hat....

Goose

Run free little hat. I'm sorry you spent time at the Lost & Found trying to retrieve it. Take a look at the BM site and then let it go. We have all lost stuff that is dear to us. Someone is wearing that hat and enjoying it. Next year...new hat.