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Early Build Team Orientation

The Future Turtles Camp Build 2025

Take care of yourself, first Don't work on build when you're not sorted out food bathroom rest shade sunscreen water electrolytes gloves hat (wear hat at all times) Work at 75% speed; it's hotter and difficult than you're used to. That could...

Camping with the Turtles - Orientation 2025

The Future Turtles Camp 2025 Archive

Actual Orientation This year we are at 7:00 & Ellison, at the heart of the queerborhood. Nearest portos are between C & D We are in a hub called Rainbow Village. The other camps are: Gender Blender Camp Beaverton  8-bit bunny Slightly Conscious Quee...

Food Supply Chain

Food Team _Evergreen Docs

Bonanza Produce Co https://www.bonanzaproduceco.com/ 1925 Freeport Blvd Sparks , Nevada 89431 USA Logistics Contact Bonanza (see below) to get the most recent BM PRODUCT LIST and ordering spreadsheet. (For reference, 2025's sample prices and 2024's pro...

What to do

Interactivity & Events

What to do  In rough chronological order call for ideas - parties, gifts, interactivity  Party themes, schedules - how long is each event  DJ bookings - build grid based on schedules with assumptions eg 69 min slots, no b2bs etc WWW submission - as earl...

Rainbow Village Electrical Training 2026

Burning Man Infrastructure Electrical Grid

Welcome to the class homepage for 2026 Rainbow Village Electrical Training! Syllabus: In this class, we're going to learn about the Volkswagen-sized generator that powers our entire hub at Burning Man. You'll learn how to run it and maintain it safely, how to...

Gayflower 2.0 Cost Estimates

Burning Man Infrastructure Water and Sanitation

This is an overview of the costs and benefits of using a single trailer for shower, toilets, fresh, and grey water as opposed to using OSS services (what's OSS, you ask?). Assumption: 2300 gallons fresh water, 2300 gallons waste water (mostly grey), two toile...

Winterization Process

Burning Man Infrastructure The Food Fort

Blow out lines Disconnect all lines Empty all tanks - both of the two freshwater and greywater tanks (Future) Do something about ice maker? 

2025 Afterburner Report

Afterburner Reports

I know, you want to see the pictures! Whoop! And with Black Rock City in the rear view mirror, the sixth journey of the Turtle tribe into the temporary alternative zone of Burning Man is in the books. Scholars will debate whether this was the Best Burn Ever, ...

2026 Program

The Future Turtles Camp Camp Design and Architecture

Redesigning the Future Turtles At the end of 2025 a lot of the public areas of the camp had been destroyed, and the sentiment among the campers was that certain parts of our public offering were at best boring and at worst inconsistent with their own goals an...

2026 Remount Shower

Burning Man Infrastructure Water and Sanitation

Existing condition (spring 2025): Problems: galvanized pipe is corroding too much weight hanging on ceiling (fell down in 2025) Plan: Mount shower heads from the wall (on the lumbar right above the shower enclosure) Replace pipes for shower with ...

Shower Trailer 2026

Burning Man Infrastructure Water and Sanitation

Given the poor state of the Gayflower and the crazy cost of replacing it, we're considering a much simpler option of building a basic shower trailer that would be extremely robust and bomb-proof: essentially something more modular and appealing.  To build t...

Habitat (2026)

Burning Man Infrastructure

In 2026 we're going to move everything we need to create camper shade and tents for up to 50 campers into one 20' container. Goals: Decommission the Empire Fort, which is on its last legs and stored in the wrong part of Nevada Simplify build and strike by...

Guide to LTL Shipping

Burning Man Infrastructure Storage and Logistics

What Is LTL and Why Do I Need It? LTL stands for Less Than Truckload. If you've only ever shipped with UPS or FedEx, think of LTL as the middle ground between parcel shipping and hiring an entire semi-truck. Your shipment shares trailer space with other shipp...

2026 Placement Application Interactivity Description

Interactivity & Events

Oh boy, the Future Turtles! You know us, right? We’re that camp with the blockbuster dance parties with hundreds of burners and amazing techno DJs. The camp that just won’t stop – famous for the 18 hour mud party in the 2023 storm, we hosted THREE (count them)...

2026-04-18 Hamptons

The Future Turtles Camp Work Weekends

Projects: build cute tables for the Future Turtles Café build the new camp shower sew shade for the café  

2026-05-09 and 17 Reno (two weekends)

The Future Turtles Camp Work Weekends

Tasks: Build and organize new Habitat container Move gear from Empire Fort to new container Unpack and de-moop everything shipped to Reno Clean and re-organize everything in the tool fort Clean and re-organize everything in the pillow fort  Move item...

2026 Dispositions

Burning Man Infrastructure Storage and Logistics

Some of the things we have and where they should go in 2026.  Philosophical Changes: Things are stored based on where they are deployed on playa Totes with lids should only be used for things where you use everything in the tote at the same time, for exam...

Sanitation

Burning Man Infrastructure Water and Sanitation

2026 In 2026 we are using United Site Services for porto-potties, grey water removal, and RV pumpouts for the build RV. THREE PEOPLE from the build team, Joel, Gary, and Viv, are listed on the USS contract as authorized representatives. One of them will have...

In Camp Shifts

The Future Turtles Camp

Running the camp takes a lot of work, which we estimate to be about 12 hours per person during the week.  An Idea for Shifts in 2026 As a turtle in 2026, you will be in one of these categories: How many? What? What you will do  32 Grunts ...