Burning Man 2024

The date of the main ticket sale has been announced as April 17 at 12:00 Pacific time. Registration for the sale is noon April 10 to noon April 12.

After going in both 2022 and 2023, I probably will skip this year. I think will be one of those burners who goes every two or three years from now on. However, you never know. If I have nothing else going on that week, and am invited back to my same camp as last year, then maybe I'll change my mind. I didn't plan to go last year, but everything seemed to fall into place for a good Burn, so I did.

More information: tickets.burningman.org/

As long as you have an open return schedule, and getting delayed by mud isn't an issue, why not?

Burn, baby...burn.

Wizard, did you ever post your experiences for 2023?

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Wizard, did you ever post your experiences for 2023?
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I wrote a series of newsletters about them.

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After going in both 2022 and 2023, I probably will skip this year.
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The main ticket sale for Burning Man 2024 is April 17. As I wrote earlier, I plan to skip BM in 2024. I am already percolating on a plan to go in 2025 with some of my hiking friends.

It will be interesting to see how competitive the Main Sale is on Wednesday. The previous two years the chances of success were about 5%. However, last year there was a surplus of privately held tickets as the event drew near. The owners had difficulty finding buyers.

Controversy at Burning Man
They banned the watermelon art installation

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/burning-man-removes-sculpture-controversy-19449596.php

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Controversy at Burning Man
They banned the watermelon art installation
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Warning issued for political post.

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Controversy at Burning Man
They banned the watermelon art installation
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Warning issued for political post.
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I don't even understand this.

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Controversy at Burning Man
They banned the watermelon art installation
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Warning issued for political post.
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I don't even understand this.
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The watermelon art exhibit was titled "From the River to the Sea" and aspects of it were judged to be objectionable.

They opted not to change it to "From the rind to the seed."

My bad joke of the day.

Burning Man attendance is trending down — and die-hards are thrilled
Following last year’s disastrous rains, ticket sales at the psychedelic desert party are flagging.

Burning Man: Why the US festival could be in trouble

As news of rising prices, intolerable weather and poor ticket sales have hit the Nevada desert event in recent years, some speculate its days could be numbered.

This weekend, tens of thousands of people will head deep into the Nevada desert to Black Rock City, a temporary metropolis that rises out of the dust every year to play host to Burning Man. For 10 days attendees - or rather, "Burners" - come together on the playa, a vast expanse of flat, inhospitable land. There are large scale art installations, mutant cars, performances, DJ sets and all manner of weird and wonderful events, from self-help talks to sex parties. Don't call it a festival though. No money changes hands at Burning Man (instead, it's about self-reliance and gifting), and the closest thing there is to a headline act is the event's climax, the burning of a large wooden effigy, the "Man" himself.

If any of that sounds appealing, then you're in luck because, for the first time in over a decade, Burning Man has failed to sell out (in previous years tickets have all been snapped up months in advance), prompting speculation that the event has lost its spark. The slow sales are the latest blow in what's been a rocky few years for Burning Man. The event was cancelled for two years during Covid (though an unofficial "renegade burn" still drew 20,000 people to the desert in 2021). When it returned in 2022 the weather was scorching, with temperatures reaching an intolerable 100F (38C) and dramatic dust storms.

Burning Man catches a lot of people's attention for being a hedonistic drug-fueled orgy in the desert… but there's so much more to it – Katherine Blackler

Last year, torrential rain turned the site into a mud bath. Roads in and out of the festival were shut off and organisers told attendees to "conserve food and water, shelter in a warm space". Some hiked for miles to get out. Diplo (who had performed a DJ set in a hot air balloon) hitchhiked out with comedian Chris Rock. There were (false) rumours of an Ebola outbreak. Meanwhile, on the internet, many seemed to revel in what was happening – with endless memes making fun of those stranded at the event and likening it to the doomed Fyre Festival. The schadenfreude was likely due to Burning Man's increasing reputation as a hangout for wealthy "tech bros", including Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk (who called it "unique to the world"). In recent years celebrities and influencers have flocked to the event.

One day, one person dead: a young female found unconscious and unresponsive. Cause of death pending autopsy although it has the look of a drug overdose.

Full story at Reno Gazette Journal

The article also lists previous deaths at the festival such as people getting run over by art cars and one guy who ran into the flaming burning man pyre. He died at the burn center.

As I planned in my OP, I didn't go this year. Chances are good I'll go in 2025, as a handful of people in my hiking circle are planning to return.

Personally, I welcome the lower attendance as I think the event got way too big.