![]() In normal years, people at the festival have to contend with sweltering temperatures and dust storms, so this time, many tried to embrace the mud. At camps, people raked the ground to search for any items that had become mixed into the hardening batter of dirt and rain. There were abandoned bikes, mud-caked tents and the steel skeleton of a 15-foot shade structure. Roughly a third of the campers had packed up and moved out, and others were collecting muddy flotsam left behind in the rutted ground. Some left excess water, food and camping essentials for festivalgoers - known as burners - who were staying. ![]() On Monday, Black Rock City - the name of the site on federal lands where the annual celebration of arts and music takes place - was a hive of activity as people packed sleeping bags, stoves and muddy tents into their trunks before heading out. Organizers had urged attendees to consider postponing their departure to avoid creating an epic traffic jam. “I wasn’t expecting to stick around for this, but I felt like we deserved this,” said Calu Franco, 39, a dermatologist from São Paulo, Brazil.Įven in normal years, leaving Burning Man can take up to 12 hours, as thousands of cars and trailers creep off the desert playa and onto a jammed two-lane road early Tuesday, the wait was estimated to be about eight hours.
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