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BURNINGMAN COOLER ADVICE

I cannot stress how important it is to keep your perishable food untainted and frozen. A few years ago one of our campmates had blood from a thawing raw steak leak into the ice in his one and only cooler, and come into contact with his beer bottles got contaminated. A day or so later he and his girlfriend drank beer and got the runs. There's never a good time to have the runs, but at Burning Man, with porta potties.... you couldn't get much worse.

Here are some suggestions:

2007 Burning Man onwards - Camp Arctica (Ice camp) update:

Camp Arctica sells Ice at Burning Man. (Ice and coffee are the two things that you can buy at BM). Arctica are always looking for volunteers and you get a free bag of ice and often other gifts for each shift. They also have a tip jar and at the end of the shift you can opt to join in the split. It is backbreaking work though - particularly if you are a desk jockey who rarely visits the gym ;-). NOTE: If you sign up early and commit to work a minimum number of hours, Arctica also will cover your ticket.

Ice will sold in three locations

Center Camp in the usual place
Ice 9 - at the 9:00 keyhole
Ice 3 - at the 3:00 keyhole

Hours will be most likely be

9am - 6pm daily during the event
Labor Day: Arctica in Center Camp will be the only station open and the hours will be from 9am to 12 noon

In 2007 the prices for ice went up - and due to fuel costs it may go up again in 2008. Last year it was:
$3 each (for 7lbs bags of crushed ice or 10lbs bags of block ice).
$15 for six-packs of the 7# bags of crushed ice will cost only $15 (i.e. buy 5 get the 6th free).

Center Camp - Coffee update:

Please try and Bring Your Own Cup (BYOC) - there will be an express line for those who bring their own cup

Hope this helps!

 

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Version 4 - updated July 20, 2008
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