"EridanMan" wrote in message
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Great Thread, I was wondering about exactly this topic just the other day
(planning for next year).

I've heard that a pilot's best best is to barter with someone coming up in
a ground vehicle and offer a flight or two in exchange for having
someone bring their supplies up (no way I can fit a weeks worth of
supplies into my PA-28-140)... Anyone have any experience with this?

That's the way many or most do it, and it wouldn't be difficult at all. In
fact, if you're around or coming through Oregon I might be able to help, so
stay in touch.

The biggest things are water, shelter, rebar stakes, food and and a bicycle.
It bills itself as a survivalist to limit the freeloader types who aren't
willing to take care of themselves. You pretty much need a gallon of water
per person per day. The event is HUGE and ever-changing and you can't see
all of it, so a cheap mountain bike is the way to get around. I bought a
$10 mountain bike from a thrift store and detailed it to look like an old
Stearman USAAC trainer; blue, with yellow forks and handlebars, red and
white tail, etc.

If it's your first trip to Burning Man, people will generally bend over
backwards to help you if you need anything and pilots there are pretty much
treated like rock stars.

Here's what we built in 2005, which is why I didn't volunteer for the
Unicom, etc: http://www.zaphodburns2005.org. We put that sucker up in a
40-mph sandstorm and took turns serving root beer all week. It worked out
perfectly because the camp across the road (Stanford marching band alumni)
brought 5,000 lbs of pulled pork and two giant barbeques and gave away
sandwiches every day, and the people next to them had a pizza kitchen going
in some sort of army tent.

Above all, believe the hype.

-c