2024 Afterburner Report

Turtles hit their stride

This was, by all accounts, an easy year to do Burning Man.

Tickets were easy to get. The weather was great. Things just worked.

It was an especially easy year for us at the Future Turtles. In our third year back, after COVID, a lot of the things we've been putting in place in 2022 and 2023 have finally all come together to make a camp that is a pleasure to be a part of.

Reno Work Weekends

After last year's mudpocalypse the Future Turtles gathered twice in Reno and once in Empire, NV for work weekends to get our camp gear back into tip-top condition. We started early this year, in October, with a weekend spent going through our tents and bikes to make sure nothing was going to get moldy. Luckily we discovered that our on-playa attempts to dry everything out before putting it away worked great and the camp Shiftpods were in excellent condition. Still, we went through every single one of them, powerwashing and cleaning them as best as we could, and repairing all the broken parts. We also powerwashed the bikes and packed them back in excellent condition.

In mid-May, we came back to Reno to work on cleaning everything in the Tool Fort and the Pillow Fort. We also hit up the Reno Generator for a burner party on Friday night and a local drag night at the Emerson on Saturday night, which was a lot of fun. The next weekend, another set of Turtles went up to Empire for the first time to work on fixing up the Empire Fort, making some major improvements to the Gayflower, and repairing damage to the Food Fort that resulted from our failure, the previous year, to winterize it.