Announcement10

From MathCamp

Hello Campers,

Welcome to Placement-Announce #10 - our last one for the year, and direct from 6:30 and Arctic! The placement team is sweaty, dusty and happy to be out here, helping Black Rock City take shape.

We know that some information has been flying around concerning the actual placement and location of theme camps. We've seen various web-sites and files. The only information that has been distributed directly from us was the URL you got from this list. Any other information has been extrapolated from the URL or is hypothetical. Any email addresses that this information was sent to must have come from the web site listing of camps and not from us. None of it is from Burning Man! If you like the info - great! If you don't - please go to the source. The only reality now is where we will place you when you arrive, and we're anxious for you to get here and set up camp!

ARRIVING IN BLACK ROCK CITY

This final Announcement tells you all how to get to your home on the playa. Please send it to everyone in your camp. We recommended that you print it out and take it with you.

THE FIRST PEOPLE IN CAMP MUST KNOW HOW THE PROCESS WORKS. Everyone else in camp SHOULD know how this process works. However, once your camp is officially placed, everyone else will be sent on through to find it on your own.

Remember - if you are not on the early arrival list or you don't have a pass for weekend arrival you can not enter Black Rock City before Monday, August 27th!

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1. When driving on highway 447, obey all traffic signs and speed limits. Local law enforcement are waiting to snag people driving through Wadsworth, Nixon and Gerlach at 30 mph instead of 25 mph. Do not try to avoid hitting the jack rabbits and mice that run across the road in front of your car. There have been fatal accidents as a result. Also, there are cows and steer on the road at times. In the dark you will come up on them very quickly. More than one car has been totaled and you will be expected to pay the rancher that owns the cow $500.00. If you are coming from the East, do not take Jungo Road out of Winnemucca unless you have at least two spare tires and a day or two to kill. Many cars get stuck every year.

2. READ YOUR SURVIVAL GUIDE! All of this and much more important information is listed there.

3. Be respectful in Gerlach. Wear regular clothing (don't go shirtless or shoeless guys and gals). It is a small conservative town that we swarm into. We need to treat the residents with the utmost respect as we pass through. Do not try to get water in Gerlach unless it is from the Empire Store.

4. Have your tickets ready at the Gate. Tune into the Burning Man Information Radio (94.5) to get the low down as you enter the city.

5. Your "theme camp check in" is at the Greeters Station. Look for a line dedicated to theme camps. Tell your greeter that you are a "REGISTERED THEME CAMP". Give them your camp name as it appears on the web site and tell them your placement person's radio name.

6. You will be escorted to your spot by this person if it is between the hours of 8:00 AM and Sunset. If it is later ask your greeter if placement is still running. We may be able to get you settled, but more likely than not you will need to camp in temporary camping over night and wait to be placed in the morning. Have fun that night visiting and walking around. We will get to you quickly in the morning. If you are the first person in for your camp do not pass through Greeters without identifying your camp.

7. DO NOT TRY TO PLACE YOURSELVES. The placement information given to you is approximate because we need you to use this system. There are too many problems with people setting up in someone else's spot. The problem is compounded in the dark. It is not fair to anyone to have to move big structures constructed overnight, so please work with us.

8. There is also the messaging center at Playa Info. In case there is a problem with your placement, decide with your camp-mates which alternative method of locating your camp you will use at Playa Info. This way, camp mates coming later in the week can go to Playa Info and locate you. It takes the load off of them if you have this arrangement worked out before you leave for Black Rock City.

9. Any camp arriving after the deadline for holding placement may find their space occupied by another camp. We hold your placement if you are later than your expected arrival date, but will begin to fill holes in Center Camp on Monday, the Esplanade on Tuesday and open all camping on Wednesday.

10. Use the What Where When as your information resource and playbill of events. Tune into BMIR (94.5) for additional news and events.

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Remember to print out this information and bring it with you. If you cannot reach any of us it is because we are already out here. We will work out any pressing details on the playa.

The changes to the city design are beautiful. It is going to be a terrific year (and it is not as dusty as the rumors say - YET).

See you out here.

The Placement Team: Aqua, Baulnaub, Dust Bunny, Double Shot, Gomonk, Heady, Hepkitten, Jake, M, Pixley, Rascal, Retro, Sacred Flame, Scar, Shadow, Sweetthang, Termeh and WD-40

Hello Campers,

Welcome to Placement-Announce #10 - our last one for the year, and direct from 6:30 and Arctic! The placement team is sweaty, dusty and happy to be out here, helping Black Rock City take shape.

We know that some information has been flying around concerning the actual placement and location of theme camps. We've seen various web-sites and files. The only information that has been distributed directly from us was the URL you got from this list. Any other information has been extrapolated from this URL or is hypothetical. Any email addresses that information was sent to came from the web site listing of camps and not from us. None of it is from Burning Man! If you like the info - great! If you don't - please go to the source. The only reality now is where we will place you when you arrive, and we're anxious for you to get here and set up camp!

ARRIVING IN BLACK ROCK CITY

This final Announcement tells you all how to get to your home on the playa. Please send it to everyone in your camp. We recommended that you print it out and take it with you.

THE FIRST PEOPLE IN CAMP MUST KNOW HOW THE PROCESS WORKS. Everyone else in camp SHOULD know how this process works. However, once your camp is officially placed, everyone else will be sent on through to find it on your own.

Remember - if you are not on the early arrival list or you don't have a pass for weekend arrival you can not enter Black Rock City before Monday, August 27th!

_________________________________________________________

1. When driving on highway 447, obey all traffic signs and speed limits. Local law enforcement are waiting to snag people driving through Wadsworth, Nixon and Gerlach at 30 mph instead of 25 mph. Do not try to avoid hitting the jack rabbits and mice that run across the road in front of your car. There have been fatal accidents as a result. Also, there are cows and steer on the road at times. In the dark you will come up on them very quickly. More than one car has been totaled and you will be expected to pay the rancher that owns the cow $500.00. If you are coming from the East, do not take Jungo Road out of Winnemucca unless you have at least two spare tires and a day or two to kill. Many cars get stuck every year.

2. READ YOUR SURVIVAL GUIDE! All of this and much more important information is listed there.

3. Be respectful in Gerlach. Wear regular clothing (don't go shirtless or shoeless guys and gals). It is a small conservative town that we swarm into. We need to treat the residents with the utmost respect as we pass through. Do not try to get water in Gerlach unless it is from the Empire Store.

4. Have your tickets ready at the Gate. Tune into the Burning Man Information Radio (94.5) to get the low down as you enter the city.

5. Your "theme camp check in" is at the Greeters Station. Look for a line dedicated to theme camps. Tell your greeter that you are a "REGISTERED THEME CAMP". Give them your camp name as it appears on the web site and tell them your placement person's radio name.

6. You will be escorted to your spot by this person if it is between the hours of 8:00 AM and Sunset. If it is later ask your greeter if placement is still running. We may be able to get you settled, but more likely than not you will need to camp in temporary camping over night and wait to be placed in the morning. Have fun that night visiting and walking around. We will get to you quickly in the morning. If you are the first person in for your camp do not pass through Greeters without identifying your camp.

7. DO NOT TRY TO PLACE YOURSELVES. The placement information given to you is approximate because we need you to use this system. There are too many problems with people setting up in someone else's spot. The problem is compounded in the dark. It is not fair to anyone to have to move big structures constructed overnight, so please work with us.

8. There is also the messaging center at Playa Info. In case there is a problem with your placement, decide with your camp-mates which alternative method of locating your camp you will use at Playa Info. This way, camp mates coming later in the week can go to Playa Info and locate you. It takes the load off of them if you have this arrangement worked out before you leave for Black Rock City.

9. Any camp arriving after the deadline for holding placement may find their space occupied by another camp. We hold your placement if you are later than your expected arrival date, but will begin to fill holes in Center Camp on Monday, the Esplanade on Tuesday and open all camping on Wednesday.

10. Use the What Where When as your information resource and playbill of events. Tune into BMIR (94.5) for additional news and events.

________________________________________________________

Remember to print out this information and bring it with you. If you cannot reach any of us it is because we are already out here. We will work out any pressing details on the playa.

The changes to the city design are beautiful. It is going to be a terrific year (and it is not as dusty as the rumors say - YET).

See you out here.

The Placement Team: Aqua, Baulnaub, Dust Bunny, Double Shot, Gomonk, Heady, Hepkitten, Jake, M, Pixley, Rascal, Retro, Sacred Flame, Scar, Shadow, Sweetthang, Termeh and WD-40