Burning Man

When asked about my Burning Man experience, I always have trouble coming with a description that's apt or concise.

Here are words that come to mind: whimsical, outlandish, inspiring, hyperbole, inspirational.

Burning Man is an annual festival held in the Nevadan in the week leading up to Labor Day.  This festival is about uninhibited self expression through art.  At the end, no trace is left that anything happened.

In 2001, the year I attended, there were 30,000 present.  This camp is actually a fully self contained city with it's own administrators and infrastructure.

The only thing that the camp provides are ice and porta-potties.  Each person is individual for their own camping, food and enough water for drinking, cooking, and bathing.

Conditions are rough to say the least.  Triple digit temperatures during the day where it's so arid that orange peels crack in minutes.  Fine sand gets into everything.

People build incredible art structures which eventually gets burned.  At night, raves and pyrotechnics fill the evening air.  The most wondrous sites however are people themselves.  Sorry for the futile description.

Burning Man Gallery