Playa conditions for 2010

chris2010 · Post by **chris2010** » Sat May 29, 2010 7:44 pm

Ugly Dougly wrote:...It rained in earlier years, and everyone got naked and slid around in the slime together.

Sounds like fun!!!

MistressSybs · Post by **MistressSybs** » Mon May 31, 2010 12:46 pm

Bob wrote:In 1998 the rain came the evening of September 9, flooded the lower end of the playa under a couple inches of water, stranding everybody left for five days. I'd post pics but the org wants to forget it ever happened.

All I can say is don't do like I did -- drive back onto the playa in the middle of the storm to pick up your girlfriend. Just leave her there, radio ahead and walk back. On the plus side, I always pack rubber boots.

I was wondering if we shouldn't do this as well.

MistressSybs · Post by **MistressSybs** » Mon May 31, 2010 12:49 pm

phil wrote:Yeah, back in ought-ninety-eight, Louise and I were just leaving when we saw the rain coming. It was sprinkling as we drove off the playa and got on the gravel exit. People who didn't get out were stranded a week or more, depending on who tells the tale.

The closest we've gotten to real rain while we were there was in 2000, when we had sprinkles from 8:00 to 10:00 am; then at 5:00 pm, we had a white out with rain. 2000 was a sucky weather year all around:
http://www.cieux.com/bm/bm2k.html

Photos of mud stuck to shoes, snow on the nearby mountains, dust storms, and such:
http://www.cieux.com/bm/wx2k.html

Louise was there with her broken leg, hence the crutches.

i love your stories... thank you for sharing..

teardropper · Post by **teardropper** » Mon May 31, 2010 6:36 pm

Just got back from the playa. Weather was great. The northern end toward Black Rock was very rough, but around where BRC will be wasn't bad. Hope that translates into good surface for BM.

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Mon May 31, 2010 10:46 pm

MistressSybs wrote:I was wondering if we shouldn't do this as well.

Oh, and don't touch anything, because the shitters will be overflowing into a ten mile lake.

Just_Joe · Post by **Just_Joe** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:15 am

teardropper wrote:Just got back from the playa. Weather was great.

Ditto that. After the morning rain, we were a bit nervous pulling into the campsite on Friday afternoon, but other than a couple soft spots, everything was fine. I biked ~ 10 miles - to the center of the Playa and then down to BRC. It seemed to me that the Burning Man footprint was quite a bit more compacted than the other areas I biked/drove on.
We enjoyed watching the playa turn colors from mud brown to cement white over the course of the 3 day event.
GPS is fun. Photo is my trailer at its *exact* location last year- 7:15 and Inherit, looking north:

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:56 am

bm_cricket wrote:
Ugly Dougly wrote:It rained in earlier years, and everyone got naked and slid around in the slime together.
For how much glass I found embedded in the playa last year I would not want to do that.

'Course, back then, there would have been many areas on which there had never been any BRC's or any human habitation. I doubt there are any such virgin patches anymore.

MistressSybs · Post by **MistressSybs** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 10:01 am

Bob wrote:
MistressSybs wrote:I was wondering if we shouldn't do this as well.
Oh, and don't touch anything, because the shitters will be overflowing into a ten mile lake.

rainboots... check!
gloves... check!
antibacterial alcohol based cleanser... check!