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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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You will never get all the dust out of your car or your body.
I saw one car on the playa covered with a tarp. The combination of high winds and gritty dust resulted in a paint job that looked like someone took a sander to it.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Burners still traveling south on 395...Spied a caucasian couple in Bridgeport today driving a brand new Black Chevy Yukon with spendy rims...Dreadlocks below waistline and camo...The only thing missing were the 2 kids with matching dreads like mom and dad a la Joe Dirt...
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ladyscarlett
Trad climber
SF Bay Area, California
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Gosh, it all sounds so scarey.
But who can resist the flaming things?
Yosemite had its firefalls, Burners have the Burn.
Fire art is so kewl! and hard to find on the west coast on a large scale!
Yay big flaming stuff!
Cheers
LS
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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What does it cost to fly in this year? Those rich kids wanted to charter helicopters, and bring them right into the center of the event, covering everything with that alkaline dust that's out there. They allow people to fly in somewhat nearby. I guess the rich guys send the limos out there early, so that they'll be there when the Gulfstreams touch down.
If you want to go to Burning Man twenty years ago, it's out in the Mojave Desert, at California City. I don't know what it's called, but I think it's free, and it is much looser with the rules. I know a couple that go each year, and the guy says people go out there and blow things up with rather sizable homemade ordnance. It's like a cross between Burning Man and the Road Warrior Mad Max movie.
I'm going to give that guy a bunch of aluminum shavings and a big bottle of crystal Drano, so he can make hydrogen there, and reproduce the Hindenburg disaster on a small scale. He'll have to make the rigid skeleton himself out of bamboo strips obtained from cheap window blinds, but that should be pretty easy.
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Where Safety trumps Leaving No Trace
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Monolith,
the male character in your link post who describes [tries] what burning man is like reiterates to the female that everything is free at Burning Man.
Did he forget:
$390 for Burning Man?
Perhaps he lost his soul too while there?
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skitch
Gym climber
Bend Or
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I wouldn't go to burning man for the same reasons I wouldn't take a cruise:
~paying to be around uninteresting people
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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I as driving on 80 today in The Tahoe and Nevada area and kept seeing (about 15) really weird vehicles like something out of Mad Max. Then it dawned on me...I'm sure they had been at Burning Man. Like a camp trailer I passed with the sign "Burn Baby Burn".
Someday maybe I'll go. But I'm getting a little too old.
Susan
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nah000
climber
no/w/here
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it's always funny, listening to/reading words from the haters...
notice how their numbers are 100% comprised of those who've never been?
and that of those of who actually go, if they have anything bad to say, it's only to say that it's not as good as it once was? but not that it was never worthwhile or even that at this point it's completely worthless if one has never been?
pretty much tells you all you need to know.
as always life is for the living and it is only the already dying/dead who stand on the sidelines and take misinformed and conjecture based potshots at those actually out there being.
in short and imesho, as long as we live in a society and culture which is grounded in a violence based sustaining of unnecessary insecurity and therefore a subsequent slavery based foundation for exchange, burning man will be a worthwhile temporary exploration for anyone interested in what the experience of increased individual freedom might be like if we cast off more of the unnecessary and codependent control mechanisms that we enforce on each other...
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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as always life is for the living and it is only the already dying/dead who stand on the sidelines and take misinformed and conjecture based potshots at those actually out there being.
yahOOOoooooooooooooo
in short and imesho, as long as we live in a society and culture which is grounded in a violence based sustaining of unnecessary insecurity and therefore a subsequent slavery based grounding of exchange, burning man will be a worthwhile temporary exploration for anyone interested in what the experience of increased individual freedom might be like if we cast off more of the unnecessary and codependent control mechanisms that we enforce on each other...
that's cOOOl!
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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thinking maybe 10th anniversary of SF doesn't happen and I save it up and drag the All-IN v.3 (along with the SushiCart) to the burn next year.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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People who go should realize that the original intent is gone.
It's not a hippie fest, it's about making money.
Where does that money go?
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Take a dump, jebus. You sound like Ron A. or 10b. It's easy to criticize anything but critique requires knowledge not just opinion.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Hey this is just a weeklong party with lots of interesting art.
Don't try to read any cultural significance into it as the idea of changing the world is horsesh**.
It is also a great forum for creative people to show off their stuff.
I have met some truly amazing people there.
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nah000
climber
no/w/here
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hahaha Jebus...
it's a good thing you quoted me, 'cause otherwise i might not have realized that that was a response to what i'd written... while i'm assuming what you wrote was mostly just an attempt at casting out a shiny lure, i'm happy to offer the following clarification: you'll notice i didn't say anything about those who don't choose to go... was just talking shIt about those who talk shIt with out going...
but i'm sure you already knew that... so... carry on... and enjoy!
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Okay Jebus, you tell me , what do we think of haters hating on something about which they are largely ignorant?
Like I said, take a dump, your outlook is sh#t.
Haters ain't makers and they are takers and fakers.
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70,000 people I'd rather meet than you, bitchy guy.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Playa Name:
Nobody
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Let's start this page right.
Some of my closest friends built an interactive bike course enjoyed by about 20,000 riders out there. They give a huge amount of effort and are rewarded in their hearts and souls, knowing they've given a few people respite from the "default world" ( aka frontcountry). I've only been twice and have criticisms as well but the same overuse problems exist in wilderness education.
We are a consumer society. That's it. And if you get a unique chance to see what things look like slightly decomodified in a social service economy, you might find yourself surprisingly refreshed and encouraged about humanity.
Faces enjoying life should bring you joy, not fill you with contempt.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Looks like fun.
I'd like to go just to see all the crazy sh#t.
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