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skitch
Gym climber
Bend Or
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Aug 30, 2016 - 05:54pm PT
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You get a bunch of ditzy girls walking around naked and higher than a silver weather balloon plus a solid handful of creepy guys hopped up on whiz-bangs...you gotta print a flyer.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Aug 30, 2016 - 07:37pm PT
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Definitely Don't Go. It's not for you. You should go to Las Vegas or Cabo and get a condo with a pool. BurningMan is for geeks.
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yedi
Trad climber
Stanwood,wa
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Aug 30, 2016 - 07:42pm PT
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Looks like it'd be fun for a day or two. Get high, ride my bike around, take some photos. I'd go.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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You can flood a desert with 200 gallons of water?
Fits in a three foot cube.
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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What Yedi said. A bike cruise and photo sesh, then outta there.
BAd
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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The camp has drawn criticism over the years for engaging in behavior counter to the "self-reliance" spirit of Burning Man. It's considered a "plug-and-play" camp, where burners from London, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco drop in and enjoy luxury accommodations, rather than rough it in a tent on the desert floor.
awww, even burners can get butthurt. fucing ruskies! What will this world succumb too next?
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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A refuge for white rich kids
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Burning Man is like travelling to India. People who have never been have lots of misconceptions. Once you get there you get a better perspective.
This NOT a hippie event. Half of the people seem to be full on raver types (I wish they would stay at home) but the other half are cool.
Rule #1: Only people who have been there are allowed to bitch about it.
Rule #2: Once you have gone there a few times you will bitch a lot about it, may hate many things about it, but will still want to go again.
I did not go this year but will go again sometime in the future.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Anyone going to do a photo tr from this year?
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Got caught in a Burner/Labor Day traffic jam on the 395. Backed up a mile or so outside of Lone Pine, then again for miles through Olancha.
Dudes were bailing off the highway in trucks and trying to follow the power line and aqueduct maintenance roads to get around it. The Inyo County sheriff was not amused.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I got to Olanche via 190 about noon and the traffic was a breeze! I expected way worse.
On the way up Fri night we passed some Burners headed up. They had to be Burners
given their rigs and the way they were driving. It was just like India.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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I got to Olanche via 190 about noon and the traffic was a breeze!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
We didn't get down from Taboose until 1. You could tell the returning burners by the distinctive gray dust covering everything.
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chainsaw
Trad climber
CA
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Never been to burning man. But when I managed Avery Ranch we got to see what the organization was all about. Burning man organizers hosted the Symbiosis, an official "afterburn" at our spot. Basically the directors were rude, capricious, entitled as#@&%es. They trashed the place for three days then split. The focus of the event was extacy, LSD, Methamphetamine, synthetic mescaline, mushrooms and GHB. We had to police the woods for rapists who gave free water in bottles laced with GHB to young girls who passed out and got dragged into the woods. A helicopter had to come evac someone who overdosed. The crowd were really weird and very suspicious of anyone whos pupils werent fully dilated. The music was so loud that we got complaints from 14 miles away. There were girls with baskets of drugs that were identified by different colors of foil. We gave up our cabins to the event organizers and ended up sleeping in tents that they stole when they left. The director never returned my email requesting they return my property. These guys are a bunch of greedy locusts who burn everyone they do business with. Real trustafari. The only good thing about burning man is that some cool people go there and do cool things. But the organizers are trustafarian drug thugs. I have been on Whole Earth Festival staff for years. We do a three day festival for free. No cost of admission, no alcohol and no open drug use. I spent months and alot of my own money managing WEF because we are dedicated to our cause. Thus I resent the burning man directors because they are now millionaires who give the Earth movement a bad name for profit.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Sounds like Chainsaw ran into the DPW (Department of Public Works) folks. They are very rowdy. Their parade at Burning Man looks like a collection of Mad Max vehicles.
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Majid_S
Mountain climber
Karkoekstan
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Another American enterprise and one day tickets are sold on ebay for $10000
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yedi
Trad climber
Stanwood,wa
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burningmanhateweek.tumblr.com
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chainsaw
Trad climber
CA
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Alright You are right DMT, I was being an as#@&%e saying all that. Im still butthurt and I should just get over it. Was once owner of a successful festival. Got shutdown by county supes who own Ironstone Amphitheater near where we operated. They saw how we did and took our event away to host theirs. So I guess Im jeallous too. Sorry my bad.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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hardcore reportage chainsaw. avery ranch guys were late sixties high school buddies, followed 'em through the years on pescadero creek and the move up to the ranch. their vision for the place was a revelation* to me, and i was witness to the results of their efforts till maybe mid '80s. i'm offended too.
the whole earth approach had actual merit and i feel your pain
*as in what makes a kitchen a "commercial" kitchen? ... and thanks guys
for turning me on to bang and olufsen gear and the creed taylor jazz label back when nixon was still in office
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http://www.uniondemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/UnionDemocrat/Entertainment/story.csp?cid=3798405&sid=764&fid=151
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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You could tell the returning burners by the distinctive gray dust covering everything.
I flew out of Reno last year just after Burning Man. All the airlines had these huge plastic bags and they were making the burners put their dusty luggage in them at check-in.
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