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08-19-2017, 07:37 PM
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Conservative Warrior
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Las Vegas Nv
Posts: 54
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Burning man festival
The burning man festival is starting in northern Nv on the 27th. The location of the festival is desert conditions. Has anyone ever attended this event with their RV and conditions they encountered?
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08-19-2017, 09:52 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Minnesota ( wishing we were boondocking in the New York Catskills )
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We are not "burners" but we are very close friends with people who are habitual about TTITD ...
DUST. Dust will get in EVERYTHING.
If it is YOUR RV and you like it, don't take it to Burning Man.
The people who RV that event ... RENT them for the event. 
Crazy Stuff.
PLAYA DUST WILL GET IN EVERYTHING.
Everything you could ever want to know ... https://burningman.org/
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08-19-2017, 09:53 PM
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Conservative Warrior
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Las Vegas Nv
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Thanks exactly what I was thinking. Think I'll pass
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08-25-2017, 10:44 AM
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King of the Road
Join Date: Apr 2016
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Just a party place for some of us 60's hippies that missed Woodstock, without the cool bands. Trying to recreate something that can't be recreated.
Went once, interesting but disappointing and would not go again.
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08-25-2017, 08:32 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Minnesota ( wishing we were boondocking in the New York Catskills )
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The whole "Burning" scene is supposed to include high degrees of self-sufficiency, participatory art, and a sort of stone-soup recipe on contributing to the scene.
This year, some very, VERY motivated people have even gone to the trouble of converting some portion of a 747 aircraft fuselage into a boardable art exhibit.
A couple years back our burner friend was very happy to score the two horizontal mount propane tanks from our decommed TC. Guess the "bleed" fittings make them valuable for his purposes ... he has this contraption that creates rather large and loud bursts of controlled flame.
The people who have been doing it for "a while" aren't so happy with the event becoming a "rich kids playground" and the larger organization is trying to re-invent themselves, and discovering the force of inertia. ( And don't all us RV'ers have EVERYTHING to look forward to as this new wave of incoming campers saturates ... everything everywhere.)
Tickets to Burning Man are harder than Hen's Teeth to come by ... if someone waves one in front of you, just sayin' ... 
Oh yeah ... PLAYA DUST WILL GET INTO EVERYTHING !!!
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Jeff and Abby
Fur Babies - Xandra Sophia (GSD) and Neo (Min-Pin Mutt who thinks he is a cat)
2015 Tracer Air 235 (previous 1994 Veri-Lite 1130 TC)
1998 Dodge Ram 2500 Quad Cab - 360 - 46RE (Built)
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08-25-2017, 09:12 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
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I scoped it on the net a while back....looked a lot like a bunch of dopeheads...maybe it wasn't and it looked like it.
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08-25-2017, 10:09 PM
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King of the Road
Join Date: Apr 2016
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Iwannacamp
I scoped it on the net a while back....looked a lot like a bunch of dopeheads...maybe it wasn't and it looked like it.
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Well, it is and it isn't. California ya know, all kinds there. A lot of partying (read booze/drugs) but it's more than that. Plenty of "adult" entertainment if you"re into that. But there are craftsmen/women, artists, musicians, retired folks, young folks. Definitely would not take kids there though, just IMO.
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2013 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Tow Vehicle
2016 days camped = 91, 2017 days camped = 109
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08-25-2017, 10:24 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2013
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First post nail it. Dust, dust, dust.
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08-25-2017, 10:27 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 10,907
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff_and_Abby
The whole "Burning" scene is supposed to include high degrees of self-sufficiency, participatory art, and a sort of stone-soup recipe on contributing to the scene.
This year, some very, VERY motivated people have even gone to the trouble of converting some portion of a 747 aircraft fuselage into a boardable art exhibit.
A couple years back our burner friend was very happy to score the two horizontal mount propane tanks from our decommed TC. Guess the "bleed" fittings make them valuable for his purposes ... he has this contraption that creates rather large and loud bursts of controlled flame.
The people who have been doing it for "a while" aren't so happy with the event becoming a "rich kids playground" and the larger organization is trying to re-invent themselves, and discovering the force of inertia. ( And don't all us RV'ers have EVERYTHING to look forward to as this new wave of incoming campers saturates ... everything everywhere.)
Tickets to Burning Man are harder than Hen's Teeth to come by ... if someone waves one in front of you, just sayin' ...
Oh yeah ... PLAYA DUST WILL GET INTO EVERYTHING !!! |
As Don Henley said: "Call some place Paradise, kiss it good-bye."
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08-26-2017, 06:49 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2016
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Interesting newspaper article from the Reno Gazette-Journal from 2013 with statistics on the makeup of the "burners". I didn't know what a big business it was - revenue in excess of $20 million in 2013.
12 stats you didn't know about your average Burner
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09-28-2017, 01:45 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Somewhere in the Ozarks...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dano1955
Just a party place for some of us 60's hippies that missed Woodstock, without the cool bands. Trying to recreate something that can't be recreated.
Went once, interesting but disappointing and would not go again.
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You hit the nail right on the head. But you forgot to add the ridiculous prices they charge for a ticket.
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