The time I went kayaking on the Black Rock Playa where Burning Man is held. It's rare that the entire playa floods. The Black Rock Desert is part of the endorheic prehistoric Lake Lahontan, a Pleistocene lake that "occupied modern northwestern Nevada & extended into northeastern California & southern Oregon." The small sign reads: "Lakebed access - Caution! Impassable when wet!" Well, that depends on your mode of transportation, doesn't it. ;)
@elaterite never went kayaking, but have been out on the lake!
@bhhaskin Nice! Did you take the shots in 2017? That was a very wet year. I would have loved to have floated the Quinn River into the Black Rock, but didn't get around to it. Ya, the morning I hauled my kayak out there it looked like this.
@elaterite took them 07/04/13
Since it was the 4th a ton of people where out there scattered around.
It rained pretty good that day and the following morning we pulled like 5 cars that got stuck out of the mud.
@elaterite that was on the very edge of the playa
@elaterite the drive out on the 3rd was pretty crazy.
@bhhaskin I really wish people would avoid driving on wet back country roads. It just makes a mess of things. I get that you sometimes get caught.
@elaterite yeah that's pretty much what happened here everyone got caught out.
@bhhaskin I'm old enough to remember the playa before Burning Man. It use to be as hard as concrete & there were only three "roads." One went up to Soldier Meadows, one to the Black Rock itself, & one to Sulfur. There was a stray track or two where people drove off willy-nilly, but other than that, it was pretty pristine. Also, Native artifacts around the perimeter of the playa use to be as thick as cigarette butts were in a '60s urban area. Now the playa is ankle deep in dust. :/
