Jesus....they're like mountain bikers in Socal trying to avoid a mud puddle on the trail. Ignore the last widest tracks, you can definitely avoid the mud if you keep going wider and wider!Quote:
Originally Posted by Micol
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Jesus....they're like mountain bikers in Socal trying to avoid a mud puddle on the trail. Ignore the last widest tracks, you can definitely avoid the mud if you keep going wider and wider!Quote:
Originally Posted by Micol
Leave no trace!
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Of course it’s a Ram.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Chupacabra
I suppose if it was dry it’d be some kind of Hellcat or an Altima.
I really liked how he shamed that stuck van by showing everyone else making it and then zooming back on the van.
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Originally Posted by Micol
SuPu looks to have lived through Ebola. Not sure if he’s still contagious since nobody fuck him. Yet.
But that’s exactly what it is. Ram TRX, which has the 700 hp Hellcat engine.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
^ that burner sitting up asleep wearing the full body mud suit being touched inappropriately gonna be pizzed when wakes up
Invented a new sport they say?Quote:
Originally Posted by El Chupacabra
It’s like they’ve never found themselves watching truck pulling events at 2 in the morning on the speed network
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Originally Posted by El Chupacabra
There's really so much to unpack from that article.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
"Among that crowd was Nave Black, who'd been camping in a rented 30-foot RV trailer. Conventional wisdom says you can't tow a 30-foot trailer through deep mud, but it turns out conventional wisdom doesn't apply when there's a guy who really wants to leave Burning Man and has the keys to a 2023 Ram TRX."
Heck, before Speed there was ‘The Nashville Network’, where you could watch tractor pulling weekend mornings, and maybe some mud bog racing in the afternoon.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
Now that you mention it, it may have been TNN - I just remember it being somewhere in the middle of no man’s land on the channel spectrum (and it was always accompanied by bog racing)Quote:
Originally Posted by J. Barron DeJong
how is this newsworthy? First camper trip I did with a trailer it snowed 6 inches and turned the roads into a muddy mess. I had to gun it through the bad parts and brake downhill to avoid sliding into the ditches for miles - total white knuckle ride driving my wife's 4Runner - she woulda killed me if I crashed it. Mudding has happened to me and probably tens of thousands of campers too. Countless rednecks have got rained on camping and got home, c'mon, in sometimes mud that deep before. Getting the trailer loose is not rare!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Burning man mud stories are so hot right now.
Slow news cycle.
Rich people suffering will always be newsworthy.Quote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
Their suffering is the regular person’s inconvenience at best.Quote:
Originally Posted by mud
That trailer with all that fishtailing probably shook all the rear cabinetry loose at a minimum. Axles-to-frame are likely torqued and out of camber now too. Just cleaning the outside and calling it good? No way I would accept that trailer back from loan.
You know what they say. The world's fastest camper trailer is a rental camper trailer.
what’s the deal with the acidic sand/mud - is that of concern seeing as how every vehicle/trailer there is getting blasted with it - or is that just overblown myth
Fucking awesome.
That guy is legend.
Next year it will be CyberTrucks
Yep I can see it more after thinking about it.. CyberTruck towing an RV with a massive array of solar panels to lay out when they set camp..Panels. arranged in some silly pattern like a giant penis. Probably a generator and fuel too just in case it's not sunny enough..
Ha true, but we are talking about one truck owner that did not suffer, he got out. And in reality I'm sure a ton of burners are just dirty hippies.Quote:
Originally Posted by mud
That is overly dramatic. Not seeing that happen with a little slip and slide. Those things get treated much worse on rocky hardpack roads with corners at speed.Quote:
Originally Posted by BCMtnHound
Hunting season in the Unitas is a trip. I’ll be 6 miles in on a road that I think is the limit of what I want to drive in a Tacoma and go around a corner and see a 40 foot fifth wheel that someone drug in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
Anyway, yeah, travel trailers take some abuse, but they aren’t particularly well made either.
I wonder how the rental company feels about seeing their trailer handled like this?
We have a pop-up and the drawers fell apart just from getting in and out of campgrounds. Pretty sure towing it like that guy would destroy ours completely. So I guess it’s good we have a Sienna instead of a Ram TRX.Quote:
Originally Posted by zion zig zag
Ha! I’ve been a contractor with ‘rented’ travel trailers for bush work, and dealt with other contractors doing the same. Experienced cabinet failures, fridge doors falling off, pumps left on and then faucet turning on and flooding the interior, other plumbing failures including tanks dropping out (contractor lost their full black tank once - that one was messy), broken axles, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
As ZZZ said, they aren’t particularly well constructed and don’t take much off-road abuse to become ‘hunter specials’. Most rental companies I know here in BC expressly prohibit any off paved road use.
That said I take our 20ft airstream Bambi on some pretty poor forestry roads and even winter hwy, but I take my time and have made a few upgrade/employ a few tricks to minimize the impact.
I believe it. I've gone miles and miles and miles out there and it's endless 5th wheels parked in every corner all summer. I know I'm approaching good camp spots when they start to fade away. I passed dozens before getting here a month agoQuote:
Originally Posted by zion zig zag
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I still don't see how that driving would do much compared to a rough road. Straight-line, ruts weren't deep. But who knows for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by BCMtnHound
Got in on Wed night after a dipshit move on my part forgetting my goggles. Spent 3 hours in Reno trying to track down a pair in the middle of summer. Finally found one pair of nicely pink one's under some kids hockey gear in an ASPCA store. $1. Got some more dry ice then headed in. Gate time in for me was 1.5 hours to will call, 2.5 to my general location. Located a suitable camp spot for our camp, cracked a beer, then slept under the stars.Quote:
Originally Posted by Micol
The next many days were amazing. Unreal actually- perfect temps and weather. Got bogged down on top of an art piece in a dust storm for maybe 30 minutes once, then smooth sailing into the end of the next week.
Rain hit, twice. Not a big deal really. Had a simple 1 person ultralight backpacking tent with a couple pieces of shade draped over it. I did my usual ground cloth and lined the tent with Tyvek. Never had a drop in there at all. High top soloman gore tex boots with hiking gators and my feet didn't get wet at all.
Sure there was carnage, but I dumped out 13 gallons of extra water before I left and still had 7 double portion grab and go meals that were ice cold when I left in my food cooler.
Got home very late last night and mostly unpacked today.
It was an awesome burn. Sorry I missed the party. I worked the Peers shift on Wed. and was focused on that and some other shit and Tuesday night just slipped off my radar. Next year.
Never missed a sunrise or a sunset keeping my streak alive. Came back to beautiful weather and nothing to complain about.
Watching this media storm now is downright hilarious.
14 days on playa that I would repeat in a heartbeat. Although I wish I brought a tele setup. Punani was killing it on his skis.
Exodus was 3 hours and 15 minutes. Easy peezy.
The best burn was the Chapel of Babel. Talk about full send.
Props to my sponsors: Telemore Dew, Sierra Nevada, Tecate, Soloman, Dirty Girl Gators, Dead Bird GT Shells, Purple Rain Adventure Skirts, Whole Foods ph balanced water, my dead Mom's old Ford Fiesta (4th burn!), Watershed Dry Bags, Leica, Mamiya, Kodak, Ilford, and Yeti coolers.
Came home with extra beer, didn't do any drugs, slept well, kept dry and clean, ate great, and got to see a ton of old friends and make even more new ones.
If anyone has any questions AMA.
Thanks for sharing - this is the reporting we needed (rather than clickbait headlines)
Nice work makers, good to have some reasonable boots on the ground for a real person's account. So you didn't have to eat anyone?
The pussy was a little dry and dusty at first, but then became more of an ass game that I dare not to play in either case. Got some good random smooches and boobages in though.Quote:
Originally Posted by garyfromterrace
Splat?
Man, people who weren't there really freaked out. This was one of the best burns in memory.
I hope it rains next year too.
I had several friends say the same. An unusually good time. Some have been to most of the BMs in NV. A few were inconvenienced about missing more work than planned and a few were disappointed to bail early because of the wx fx.
Ya one of my neighbors is a long time burner and another was a first timer, non roughing it type. Both said it was a great time even with the mud
Maybe your neighbors like the taste of flesh?
Hope everyone was ok, sounds like it.
Floods in the desert can be bad.
Canada might consider their own gig since they seem to be into burning down the house.
Nu venue of BurnySplat may be in the works.
Did they or didn't they actually burn the burning man?
I’m here for pics of muddy boobies