Recon Missions and Playa Conditions

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:34 am

Back a day early from playa recon mission over super bowl weekend. Frog pond was lovely and so was Trego hot spring with delicious, stinky mud and not a human to throw it at. Lot's of "lake" on the playa. Almost got stuck due to rain on roads. All is well for Black Rock City to be as flat and perfect as 2004 if we can just get one more giant downpour, yes?

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:29 am

Ah~ Good to hear your peaceful playa weekend was a success. Glad to be of service on the idea!

I love Froggy pond!

Hope your mind is clear and your vision excited!

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:38 am

pinemom wrote:

I love Froggy pond!

Hope your mind is clear and your vision excited!

Not after drinking that pond water..

Post by **mdmf007** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 3:46 pm

I get trashed in Frog Pond 3-4 times a year!

lonestoner916 · Post by **lonestoner916** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:00 pm

mdmf007 wrote:I get trashed in Frog Pond 3-4 times a year!

Normally so do I. Oh Frog Pond, my darling, how I miss you so!

Ranger Genius · Post by **Ranger Genius** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:50 pm

For the real hot spring experience, have a nice, relaxing dip in Double Hot.

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:30 pm

We used Double Hot to kill the fleas on our cat.

It worked.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:33 am

Last time I was at Double Hot, somebody sabotaged the pipes. Was it you, Zsu Zsu? Then there are saints like One Eye who leave a place like Frog Pond better than they found it. Nice new ladder there, too.

Here's a 360 I took about two clicks N/W of Froggy just past the last sage brush:

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littleflower · Post by **littleflower** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:19 am

ahhhh mr. jellyfish .... thank you for that!

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:59 am

Oh, and Mr Jellyfish Mr, the Saints won.

TomServo · Post by **TomServo** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:22 pm

How are the huge three legged crickets at the pond?

So they're getting as much rain as California? I sure hope so.

Post by **mdmf007** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:27 pm

Damn - those ruts will harden and be there in june.

every time on playa we have to do lots of leveling to attempt land speed runs. hitting a rut at 500+ would do significant damage to the car and driver.

motskyroonmatick · Post by **motskyroonmatick** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:54 pm

Do you harrow or land plane the playa with a tractor dmdf007?

Sail Man · Post by **Sail Man** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:02 am

oneeyeddick wrote:We used Double Hot to kill the fleas on our cat.

It worked.

Videos of that would be wonderful

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:04 am

Did you see a lot of frogbats?

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:07 am

one would love to see the famous "Trego clams"

Post by **mdmf007** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:17 am

motskyroonmatick wrote:Do you harrow or land plane the playa with a tractor dmdf007?

Simpler than that - BLM does not want earth moving equipment on playa to excavate large amounts of dirt and thats not what we need.

To flatten out the playa is real simple - just drag a 20' wide section of chain link fence thats about 100 feet long. That flattens it right out, cuts the high spots off, fills the low.

motskyroonmatick · Post by **motskyroonmatick** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:51 am

mdmf007 wrote: To flatten out the playa is real simple - just drag a 20' wide section of chain link fence thats about 100 feet long. That flattens it right out, cuts the high spots off, fills the low.

Yah that would work great. That system is what I used as a pasture harrow behind a four wheeler, albeit much smaller.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 8:06 am

Risky wrote:Did you see a lot of frogbats?

One scared the be-Jesus out of me at night. And I thought your burning of the frogbat effigy would keep me safe! Funny how a duck's flapping wings can sound just like a pack of hyenas chuffing for meat.

teardropper · Post by **teardropper** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:53 pm

Can't wait for Rendezvous to get on the playa and soak in Frog Pond... Some body is gonna' take us around to show the hot springs and I'm gonna' GPS 'em so I can find 'em again. They can be hard to locate.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:26 pm

Sounds like fun. Finding them is not as hard as obtaining legal access as many are on private land. I heard they're not going to have live music this year at the rendezvous?

teardropper · Post by **teardropper** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:16 pm

I just looked at the site again, and they show at least two bands.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:21 pm

ygmir wrote:one would love to see the famous "Trego clams"

They are actually a species of freshwater mussels from the order Unionidae.

I just made that up.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:55 pm

Ugly Dougly wrote:
ygmir wrote:one would love to see the famous "Trego clams"
They are actually a species of freshwater mussels from the order Unionidae.

I just made that up.

yeah, I've seen them, both sub species, the "Grizzley Adams"
(filter feeders) and the "Yul Brynner" (lure their prey), variety.
both tasty, though.

teardropper · Post by **teardropper** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:39 pm

Oh no, last years site. No bands this year? Oh, well.

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:43 pm

oh there will be music regardless.

Anytime you have 3 hippies in one place, at least one of them has a drum.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:46 pm

seems like wherever I go, they have a didgeridoo.........

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:09 pm

The boys always bring theirs out at the hot springs.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:58 pm

oneeyeddick wrote:oh there will be music regardless.

Anytime you have 3 hippies in one place, at least one of them has a drum.

Ah but does a hippie banging a drum constitute "music"? Even if there are a couple more beat boxing?

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 6:04 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:
oneeyeddick wrote:oh there will be music regardless.

Anytime you have 3 hippies in one place, at least one of them has a drum.
Ah but does a hippie banging a drum constitute "music"? Even if there are a couple more beat boxing?

i believe that according to Nevada State Law, the answer would be "No".