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Playa del Fuego is the east coast regional burn formerly held in Delaware, last held in Pennsylvania. This year it's being held VIRTUALLY!!! On the internet.

virtual.playadelfuego.org


 

Virual del Fuego is a sanctioned Burning Man Regional Burn running from Friday May 22, 2020 at 6 PM ET - Sunday May 24, 2020 at Midnight ET.

Please be patient with the website. We're still busy testing and putting the finishing touches to make the website ready for Friday's gate opening at 6:00 PM ET.

You'll be able to create a login and get properly greeted then!

PDF was my first burn ever, back in 2008 when I was 17 years old. Very formative experience. Would recommend!

PlayaTel

Connect with friends who might not be able to come to the phone right now with the PlayaTel community voice bulletin board system!  (Now available via most publicly switched packet networks*)
(844) 666-2681

*requires 44.1kbps modem or better

that looks incredibly uncomfortable to ride

Burning man 2021 - CANCELLED

https://journal.burningman.org/2021/04/news/official-announcements/into-the-great-unknown/

But, although here in the United States we may be feeling the weight lifting and the light at the end of the tunnel brightening, we are still in the pandemic, and the uncertainties that need to be resolved are impossible to resolve in the time we have.

We have decided to set our sights on Black Rock City 2022.

But if you really need your burning man fix, you can still show up in the desert. No roads or portapoties will be provided

Yes, There Still Will Be Visitors in the Black Rock Desert

Some of you will choose to gather, co-create and celebrate Burning Man culture on the playa this year. The Bureau of Land Management says at this time public lands will remain open to the public. Anyone choosing to camp on the playa this year will need to be entirely self-sufficient.

Did anyone else notice that Burning Man seemed a bit more intense this year than before?

https://buckdown.medium.com/what-the-fuck-just-happened-at-burning-man-fd5e5b95e011

yeah it was wild

Burning Man MOOP cleanup is going well, surprisingly

https://journal.burningman.org/2023/09/black-rock-city/leaving-no-trace/checking-in-on-playa-restoration/

“The participants did an amazing job… that’s why it’s so frustrating for me to hear all this conjecture in the media… It’s really not like that at all. It’s phenomenal out there.”

Those abandoned vehicles and couches? We hate to see anything left behind, but it’s important to note that there were no more this year than in previous years. “Every year we have to do what we call large abandoned item removal,” Chaos said. It’s a process by which we sweep the city and gather up all the loose objects. This year was a very average year as far as items left behind by camps. We actually had significantly fewer camps that really abandoned a lot of their stuff. In a lot of years we have 10 or 12 problem camps. This year it was only two or three places where a camp clearly just abandoned a bunch of stuff.”

“We have sometimes vehicles that were misplaced, sometimes someone was medevaced or something along those lines, and their car’s still out there. Sometimes a rental vehicle gets abandoned or a trailer, two people don’t agree on who’s picking it up and then nobody picks it up. This year, we probably had about 20 or so vehicles left behind like that… We have been able to successfully get all of those vehicles handled by the owners or the companies that were serving those owners. So there are no remaining unknown vehicles left out there.”

Huge high-res aerial view of Burning Man 2023

http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/233427

You can see our camp!

Burning Man 2023 mud fashion