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Burning Man

Advice

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👭 Don't go without a buddy

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⛺️ Only camp with people who are excellent campers

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☀️ Make sure your tent/sleeping structure is shaded

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🌪 Always keep everything zipped up and strapped down

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🤓 If you care about measurable impacts to your intelligence, skip MDMA

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🌟 Take the opportunity to collect fun light sources for you, your backpack, your bike, etc.

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😷 Get a good + comfortable mask and carry it with you at all times

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😎 Don’t forget sunscreen and eye protection (for dust and sun) maybe a hat too?

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🗓 Make room for spontaneous discoveries and changes of plan, but set itineraries anyway

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🚲 Bring a bike

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🚰 Stay hydrated

Useful Objects

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🧘‍♀️Pee funnels/containers

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🚽 Little rolls of single ply TP in snack-sized ziplocks

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🚰 7 gallon water container (also great for general emergency preparedness)

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🥤Lidded liquid container (e.g. a small nalgene)

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🐫 Slim Camelback water backpack

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🛁 Wet wipes

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🔓Zip ties

Small Optimizations

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🚲 Advice: Keep your bike locks latched whenever you're not using them

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🌈 Rainbow bike wheel light

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✨ Metallic temporary tattoos & long-lasting temporary tattoos

Resources

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🎶 Annual music guide curated by Rock Star Librarian

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📍A map for finding your friends

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🏜 Burning Man fb group

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📕 The official survival guide

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🧳 See also Spencer Greenberg's "Burning Man Packing List" on the 💝Things from my friends page.

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🏥 Health advice

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ℹ️ Real-time info e.g. for whether the gate is open

In the Aftermath

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🏨 Consider staying at the Peppermill in Reno for a couple nights

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🎈 If you can swing it, stay in Reno until at least Friday and you can go to the great hot air balloon “races”

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🌬 Consider an (electric) air compressor, instead of trying to clean with water

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👕 Use vinegar in your laundry (but assume that your clothes, especially whites, will never be the same)

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📦 Set aside time to go through all your stuff now

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🚙 If you live in the Bay Area, consider getting your car detailed at the Lafayette car wash

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