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2025 Gayflower Wish List
Introduction After two years in operation we have a wish list for some improvements and repair...
Building Camp
A typical year for the Build Team, assuming all goes well and there is no weather emergency or sp...
Work Requirements to Camp With the Future Turtles
Camping for a week in the harsh Black Rock Desert is tough. We try to make it easier by collabora...
2025 Water Plan
This is just the outline of how I think we can do water in 2025, based on everything I remember f...
Water, Fresh and Otherwise
Over the years we have constantly revised and updated the way we handle water in camp. We're not ...
2024 Afterburner Report
In 1990 a small caravan of cars containing members of the Cacophony Society, together with Larry ...
On Playa Electrical Grid
On playa we rent a large 56 kW (70 kVA) generator that has ample power for our needs and all the ...
2023 Afterburner Report
Best. Year. Ever! Our fourth year, 2023 was the biggest year ever for the Future Turtles. We had...
2022 Afterburner Report
We went home! For the 36 turtles who came to Black Rock City this year, it was an incredible yea...
Reno repair resources
Need something repaired in the food truck? We've found these services in Reno who can come out to...
Technical Details
The Food Fort was built by Concession Nation in Florida and delivered on June 14th, 2023. Equi...
Food Fort Pictures
Grill, Stove and Oven, Air Conditioner, Handwashing Sink, Dishwashing Sinks, Microwave, Counter s...
The Kitchen Fort Water System
The kitchen fort, delivered in 2023, is a marvel in camp automation, allowing us to bring a comme...
Moving Water in Camp
As of 2024, we don't quite have the water system fully dialed in, but we've learned a lot over th...
Year Round Storage
Future Turtles camp gear is stored in six places: Name Description Contents Location* ...
Turtle Truck
We rent a truck in San Francisco to make camp possible. It brings bulky camper stuff from San ...
Solar and Renewables
We often get asked when we're moving to solar power or why we insist on using a big smelly noisy ...
Vendors
Generator World, Inc Provides the rental generator along with distribution boxes and the banded ...
Backup Plans
In three years running big generators we have had outages and they were always caused by one of t...