Burning Man’s Desert Ski Slope Faces Financial Freeze as BRC Snow Club Launches Fundraiser Burning Man is held every summer from August 24 to September 1 in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. The event transforms the desert into a temporary city focused on art, self-expression, and radical self-reliance. The temporary city is named Black Rock City, with the festival’s mission being to guide, nurture, and protect the more permanent community that its culture […] Gregg Frantz | July 27, 2025 0 Comments
NASA: Burning Man Festivalgoers Saturated by Late Season Storms Campers at Burning Man, an annual arts festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, might typically expect to bake in the late summer sun on a dusty playa. In September 2023, however, attendees encountered a bout of unusually heavy rain that turned the pancake-flat desert basin into a sea of mud. Related: Burning Man or Drowning Man? — Record Rainfalls in […] SnowBrains | September 8, 2023 0 Comments
Burning Man or Drowning Man? — Record Rainfalls in Nevada Turn Desert Festival into Mud Pit Around 70,000 people are currently trapped at the Burning Man Festival in Black Rock Desert, NV. The remote desert area in northwest Nevada was hit with three months’ worth of rain in the 24-hour period between Friday and Saturday, September 1 and 2. The unprecedented heavy rainfalls turned the arid, dry desert sand into a clay-like mud, rendering vehicles of […] Julia Schneemann | September 3, 2023 0 Comments
[VIDEO] First Test of Portable Ski Slope at Burning Man Festival, NV, Shows Success Burning Man is held every year from August 27 through September 4 in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada and creates a temporary city that promotes art, self-expression, and self-reliance. The temporary city is named Black Rock City, with the festival’s mission being to guide, nurture and protect the more permanent community created by its culture. It all started in […] Industry News Gregg Frantz | August 16, 2023 0 Comments
What is Burning Man? It’s August, and that means it’s time for Burning Man. The annual event (except for a two-year break during the covid years) where tens of thousands of free-spirited adventurous people make the pilgrimage out to the Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada for the week-long event. For some of you, this brings an instant smile to your face, for others […] Jesse Cassidy | August 14, 2023 16 Comments
Nevada’s Burning Man Festival is Getting a Ski Slope This Summer Burning Man is held every year from August 27 through September 4 in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada and creates a temporary city that promotes art, self-expression, and self-reliance. The temporary city is named Black Rock City, with the festival’s mission being to guide, nurture and protect the more permanent community created by its culture. It all started in […] Industry News Gregg Frantz | August 9, 2023 0 Comments
Burning Man Canceled For Second Year Running | Will Return in 2022 Burning Man organizers announced yesterday that the festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert will not go ahead for the second year running. Burning Man brings in $60 million each year to the local economy, according to Burning Man’s own economic analysis. 2020 was the first time since the festival began in 1986 that it has had to be canceled. Burning Man […] SnowBrains | April 28, 2021 2 Comments
Burning Man Canceled for First Time EVER | Spirit of the Event Will Continue in the ‘Multiverse’ Burning Man organizers announced Friday that the festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert will not go ahead this year in an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Burning Man brings in $60 million each year to the local economy, according to Burning Man’s own economic analysis. It is the first time since the festival began in 1986 that it […] SnowBrains | April 14, 2020 0 Comments
58-Arrests @ Burning Man This Year… | Sexual Assault, Assault w/ Deadly Weapon, Drugs, More Contrary to popular belief that there is no law enforcement at Black Rock City in the Nevada desert, this year’s Burning Man, which came to an end yesterday, resulted in 58 arrests. This is a marked increase on last year’s 43 and the same as the 58 in 2017. Every year tens of thousands of people travel to the Black Rock […] SnowBrains | September 3, 2019 0 Comments
Man Dies After Running Into the Flames of the Burning Man Statue at Burning Man Festival, NV Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen is reporting that 41-year-old Aaron Joel Mitchell ran through 2 levels of human-chains of security officers and into the flames of a 40-foot-tall burning effigy (the burning man) at 10:30pm on Saturday night at the Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert, NV. Allen reports that firefighters rescued Mitchell who was air evacuated to UC […] Fire Firebrains | September 3, 2017 0 Comments
Burning Man Uncovered… | “Spark” a Burning Man Story Spark is a new documentary about Burning Man that is currently screening in select theaters in the U.S. Here’s a synopsis offered by Spark Pictures Production: “Each year, 60,000 people from around the globe gather in a dusty windswept Nevada desert to build a temporary city, collaborating on large-scale art and partying for a week before burning a giant effigy […] Sara K | September 4, 2013 2 Comments
Burning Man’s 2013 Theme = “Cargo Cult” | What Does It Mean? On Sunday evening in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, gates officially opened, kicking off the 2013 Burning Man event. And with the Man burning in less than 5 days, we thought we would explore this years art theme which plays an integral part in what Burning Man is. Every year Burning Man has a new and unique art theme in […] Jesse Cassidy | August 27, 2013 4 Comments
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