finding my way home at night

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:36 pm

Landmarks have a way of burning.

Pre-burn, you can always orient yourself to the Man.

ibdave · Post by **ibdave** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:31 pm

Wow, its going to be a new moon time this year.. A few dark night ahead. We should have a 1/4 moon by burn night.... This is going to make it harder for the newbis to find home base.........

disrup-sean · Post by **disrup-sean** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:18 pm

[quote="maheesh"]Should I be concerned? What can I do? Should I get a gps, maybe? Thx in advance to all replies[/quote]

Other folks have answered "how to find your way home."

During your wanderings, note the locations of easily-findable places good to crash/nap/cooldown/warm up in a pinch -- in case you -do- find yourself in altered states unable to find your way home (or just exhausted and far from home). Ex: the "lost penguin" camp, usually on the esplanade and highly visible, and relatively quiet/comfy

Hazbro · Post by **Hazbro** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:09 am

Yah I remember wandering about in the dark discovering what seemed like the most awesome theme camp showing dubbed versions of movies spending a couple of hours there stumbling back to my camp to tell everyone about it and then never beening able to rediscover it

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:43 am

Hazbro wrote:Yah I remember wandering about in the dark discovering what seemed like the most awesome theme camp showing dubbed versions of movies spending a couple of hours there stumbling back to my camp to tell everyone about it and then never beening able to rediscover it

Was it a hallucination?

(None of us ever had that experience, huh?)

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:10 am

Ugly Dougly wrote:
Hazbro wrote:Yah I remember wandering about in the dark discovering what seemed like the most awesome theme camp showing dubbed versions of movies spending a couple of hours there stumbling back to my camp to tell everyone about it and then never beening able to rediscover it
Was it a hallucination?

No, he accidently stumbled into the future when all theme camps were built with nano-tech and were much much cooler. When he went away, he fell out of the eddy in the space-time continuum.

Good thing he ended up at his camp and not with the mammoths.

phil · Post by **phil** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:53 am

Hazbro wrote:Yah I remember wandering about in the dark discovering what seemed like the most awesome theme camp showing dubbed versions of movies spending a couple of hours there stumbling back to my camp to tell everyone about it and then never beening able to rediscover it

GPSDataLogger is your answer:
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/CivilizedExplorer?id=25

Find out where you've been _and_ how long you were there! Gosh!

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:57 am

ibdave wrote:Wow, its going to be a new moon time this year.. A few dark night ahead. We should have a 1/4 moon by burn night.... This is going to make it harder for the newbis to find home base.........

It was darker last year.

vic · Post by **vic** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:40 am

If you are going to get lost, Black Rock City is the best place I can think of. Interesting things to see and do everywhere, lots of interesting people willing to cheerfully give you bad dirctions, you are never farther than a block from a bar, and there are many great places to chill out and take a nap.
If you want to make it easy to find your camp, put up some interesting (or at least colorful) art. If you do a good job, your neighbors will start using is as a land mark. Imagine their confusion when you take it down.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:01 am

If you want to know which way is north, try looking up.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:17 am

Or feel for moss on the north sides of the trees...

disrup-sean · Post by **disrup-sean** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:39 pm

Ugly Dougly wrote:If you want to know which way is north, try looking up. ;)

Or follow your third nostril

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