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Nearly 70,000 head home after Burning Man
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The exodus from Burning Man is underway as nearly 70,000 people fly, drive, bike and hitchhike out of the Nevada desert following a fiery weeklong pilgrimage. Trevor Hughes
It was a particularly windy and dusty week at this year's Burning Man festival.(Photo: Andy Barron, Reno Gazette-Journal)
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. — Tens of thousands of Burning Man attendees are making their way out of the remote desert and back to civilization following the near-silent ceremonial burning of a temple Sunday night.
A large crowd watched at flames consumed the wooden temple. All week, visitors to the temple wrote notes and messages on its walls, hoping the flames would help cleanse the past of ills and clear a way for progress.
The crowd was smaller than the one that watched the Man burn Saturday night during a party atmosphere. Many attendees packed up and left Sunday before the temple burn in an effort to avoid traffic.
By 9 p.m. local time, event organizers said the normally 2.5-hour drive south to the Reno area might take up to five hours as they slowly released traffic onto the two-lane road leaving the site.
Robert Richter of Berlin, Germany, waits for a ride to leave Burning Man on Sunday afternoon. Richter came to the festival with friends who decided to take a road trip in a different direction when they leave. (Photo: Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY)
"You get some cards, sit in the RV and pretend you all still like each other after a week," said Caitlin Maloney of New York. Maloney helped organize a 40-person encampment that had planned to stay through Sunday night but after a windy, dusty week, the group decided to head home early.
And how long will their drive back to San Francisco take? Maybe eight hours. Maybe 12. Maybe longer.
"It's just kind of part of the adventure. It's not my first rodeo," Maloney said.
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Burning Man organizers have tried to reduce arrival and departure congestion in by encouraging carpooling and buses. But they sometimes also have to ask attendees to wait in their vehicles for hours while delays clear.
Most people arrive by private vehicle because they're generally required to be entirely self-sufficient for their stay, including water, food and shelter. Fewer than 6% of attendees live in Nevada, and local law enforcement typically has a heavy presence in the small towns along the route where speed limits drop from 70 mph to 25 mph.
A line of vehicles rolls slowly through the desert after leaving the Black Rock City perimeter fence. As of Sunday afternoon, vehicles were being forced to wait an hour at the final exit gate before heading south toward Reno, Nev., in an effort to reduce congestion on the two-lane road. The drive normally takes two hours. (Photo: Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY)
Once all festival attendees have left, organizers will scour the 7-square-mile site for any foreign debris, known as MOOP, or matter out of place. Vehicles entering the temporary city are inspected for items like feathers, glitter or flowers deemed likely to leave behind MOOP. A trash fence encircles the city, catching wayward plastic bags and toilet paper blown out of the encampment.
Burning Man is the world's largest Leave No Trace event, and a condition of its permit with the federal Bureau of Land Management is that the otherwise-featureless desert floor be returned to that condition each year.
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Nearly 70,000 head home after Burning Man
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The exodus from Burning Man is underway as nearly 70,000 people fly, drive, bike and hitchhike out of the Nevada desert following a fiery weeklong pilgrimage. Trevor Hughes
It was a particularly windy and dusty week at this year's Burning Man festival.(Photo: Andy Barron, Reno Gazette-Journal)
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. — Tens of thousands of Burning Man attendees are making their way out of the remote desert and back to civilization following the near-silent ceremonial burning of a temple Sunday night.
A large crowd watched at flames consumed the wooden temple. All week, visitors to the temple wrote notes and messages on its walls, hoping the flames would help cleanse the past of ills and clear a way for progress.
The crowd was smaller than the one that watched the Man burn Saturday night during a party atmosphere. Many attendees packed up and left Sunday before the temple burn in an effort to avoid traffic.
By 9 p.m. local time, event organizers said the normally 2.5-hour drive south to the Reno area might take up to five hours as they slowly released traffic onto the two-lane road leaving the site.
Robert Richter of Berlin, Germany, waits for a ride to leave Burning Man on Sunday afternoon. Richter came to the festival with friends who decided to take a road trip in a different direction when they leave. (Photo: Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY)
"You get some cards, sit in the RV and pretend you all still like each other after a week," said Caitlin Maloney of New York. Maloney helped organize a 40-person encampment that had planned to stay through Sunday night but after a windy, dusty week, the group decided to head home early.
And how long will their drive back to San Francisco take? Maybe eight hours. Maybe 12. Maybe longer.
"It's just kind of part of the adventure. It's not my first rodeo," Maloney said.
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Anything goes for Burning Man costumes
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Burning Man: Burners in the desert encounter whiteout conditions
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Burning Man: A feast for the eyes
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Burning Man is incredibly dusty and windy
Burning Man organizers have tried to reduce arrival and departure congestion in by encouraging carpooling and buses. But they sometimes also have to ask attendees to wait in their vehicles for hours while delays clear.
Most people arrive by private vehicle because they're generally required to be entirely self-sufficient for their stay, including water, food and shelter. Fewer than 6% of attendees live in Nevada, and local law enforcement typically has a heavy presence in the small towns along the route where speed limits drop from 70 mph to 25 mph.
A line of vehicles rolls slowly through the desert after leaving the Black Rock City perimeter fence. As of Sunday afternoon, vehicles were being forced to wait an hour at the final exit gate before heading south toward Reno, Nev., in an effort to reduce congestion on the two-lane road. The drive normally takes two hours. (Photo: Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY)
Once all festival attendees have left, organizers will scour the 7-square-mile site for any foreign debris, known as MOOP, or matter out of place. Vehicles entering the temporary city are inspected for items like feathers, glitter or flowers deemed likely to leave behind MOOP. A trash fence encircles the city, catching wayward plastic bags and toilet paper blown out of the encampment.
Burning Man is the world's largest Leave No Trace event, and a condition of its permit with the federal Bureau of Land Management is that the otherwise-featureless desert floor be returned to that condition each year.
Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1UANwbx
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