Burning Man Photo-Essay

ENVIRONMENT: . . . . . . . . . • Topography •


These two images highlight the travel toward Black Rock Desert and the fossil lakebed itself, circumscribed by a rocky boundary.

The road curves to the right around Pyramid Lake and a Native American reservation. You can imagine that if this lake were drained and dried, it would mirror the Playa further north, ringed by mountains, a flat, dry 'beach'.

You can see in the lower photo a red structure - that is a temple. The thin ring of settlement is the tent city.
"Topography montage"
Slide #3 / 70


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