This year’s annual descent into independent mayhem at Burning Man got a bit sticky when it came time to go home. A much-needed, but badly timed, precipitation turned the otherwise dusty Nevada desert playa into a virtual mud bowl. Show organizers urged event-goers to “shelter in place,” and ride out the rainstorm. Not everyone agreed, and one enterprising RV user put his truck in gear to break out of the Burning Man mud.
This is NOT something we advise, but if you have plenty of time to clean up (provided you safely make it out of the muck), here’s how one person did it.
I got this video yesterday of this TRX putting all that horsepower to good use to escape burning man😂 #burningman #BurningMan2023 pic.twitter.com/xWYriRgCHo
— Brendancogbill (@brendanmcogbill) September 4, 2023
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A bright spot of my already very bright week. LOL. What a mess. What a carbon footprint.
Almost as good as the Rangers clearing the “Stop Oil” protesters with force from the highway, which IMO, was the Burning Man story of the week.
Sorry about the loss of life at Burning Man this year tho. Sad.
Agreed!
Not Rangers, Indian Reservation police.
They were Indian Reservation “Rangers” as it was displayed on the side of the Rangers truck during the breakup of the protesters blockade.
Whom are in fact called Rangers.
The entry steps were out (deployed), and everything about the trailer took a severe beating. It’s a good way to create future problems like a leaky roof. I couldn’t treat my equipment like this, unless there was an emergency.
You beat me to it. Pure genius he is. Probably not his rig and didn’t care.
The irony is that the RV would have let them wait it out a couple of days in relative comfort for things to dry out. Leave no trace. Not this bad boy. I’m guessing that underbelly, and those stairs, are trashed.
Maybe something to think about when considering buying a used RV or vehicle
Well, I wonder how the ruts left behind were negotiated by the next few RVers to pass that way? Hopefully they didn’t fall into his ruts, deepen them, and ultimately bottom-out and become stuck. This seems a bit too reminiscent of a recent story related in RV Travel of a truck-trailer blocking the road through campsites for almost an hour. It is a big world, but not so big that the behavior of one cannot adversely affect many others. 🙁
Good thing Danica Patrick wasn’t driving beside him.
I bet this guy is still bragging about the mud run he did to get out of burning man. He’ll be showing this video to all his friends.
700+ horsepower helps.