Burning Man exodus begins as festival-goers share their stories of escape.
Doused by days of rain, thousands of people stuck on the muddy playa at the Burning Man festival began to trickle out of the remote area in northwest Nevada on Monday.
Monday marked a turning point for this year’s beleaguered festival. The sun shone, warming the Black Rock Desert above 70 degrees, according to the National Weather Service office in Reno. By early afternoon, the festival’s webcast showed people walking and biking around Black Rock City with ease. They avoided the festival ground’s central “city,” which had become almost impassible with mud, and walked out along the open desert, with no clear sense of what might await them when they reached the paved road miles away, or whether they might become stranded en route.
“This is why we walked out, because we knew if we stay we were not going to be able to get another flight,” she said. “Seventy-thousand people are trying to get home, and we’re going to L.A., which is a big hub. I really wanted to stay, I didn’t want to abandon everyone, but it was smart to go.”“I’m just thinking of virgins who got there for the first time and this is their experience,” Lee said. “People were losing it, and that scares everyone.
“If you leave a certain amount of moop, you get a fine, it affects your position on the playa and your moop score,” Gleeson said. “I know our camp for the past days has been cleaning up in the mud, trying to dig stuff up.” “We really can’t drive out of here until it dries up,” Marder said. “It’s indescribably sticky. If you’re in boots or plastic bags it likes to stick to, you could have easily 10 pounds of mud. You can’t roll your bicycle in it. The mud sticks to the tires and then the braking mechanism and the frame. There’s cars I’ve seen that get stuck, a van. The poor guy is scraping the mud from between his tires.
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