Okay, the mental dust has settled somewhat, and I'm going over and recapping my funsie-trip three weekends ago. This is, for the most part, just highlights. Burns tend to blur in the brain both during, and after
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I found out about Frostburn around 4-5 years ago, finally made my first one in 2011. Some go to Burns, think "WTF did I get myself into?", and never go again. Some, like festival-goers, go to Burns and become Burners. I was one who went to a Burn, and realized that I WAS a Burner.
One aspect of Burning Man, that gets submerged in the hoopla, is that yes, it IS a week of surviving in the frigging desert. It'd be hard to do, with 60,000 people looking out for each other, but the environment could, in fact, kill someone if they do enough dumb shit.
FrostBurn is one of the few regional Burns that partakes of this aspect. When it's single-digits out and the wind chill takes it negative, people could die there. FreezerBurn in Texas might get there some years. AfrikaBurn, in the desert in South Africa, can. A lot of other Burns, don't.
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One aspect of Burning Man, that gets submerged in the hoopla, is that yes, it IS a week of surviving in the frigging desert. It'd be hard to do, with 60,000 people looking out for each other, but the environment could, in fact, kill someone if they do enough dumb shit.
FrostBurn is one of the few regional Burns that partakes of this aspect. When it's single-digits out and the wind chill takes it negative, people could die there. FreezerBurn in Texas might get there some years. AfrikaBurn, in the desert in South Africa, can. A lot of other Burns, don't.
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