Is the Black Rock Desert Playa 2009 ready to be a Burning Man Playa? Early August Surface Report & Playa Cam!
Word from the PDX Regional “Porn*” (aka Tzara) on-site (few down Saturday) the playa surface is smooth and crusty. Just like we like it. :-) Golden stake Sunday.
The playa’s surface depends on how much and what kind of moisture the Black Rock Desert received the previous winter.
I’ve been out there trying to ride my bike through what seemed like three feet of flour. No fun. Intermittent patches of flour spaced with firm surface wrreaks havac by day and you can imagine how crazy it can be at night to ride on a surface as unreliable as that!
And wet–that stuff’s slicker than snot, and cakes your tires or shoes so you’re inches off the ground. No kidding.
Here’s more about the playa and the web cam there so you can see the conditions of the playa yourself: https://artpredator.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/burning-man-playacam-video/
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Mid-August Playa Condition Report: Playa surface is good, not great. Fairly hard, with some bumpy patches of small dunes. Overall, a big improvement over 2008’s conditions. And the city is back down to its 2007 size. So, much easier to get around!
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