1) Before we leave
2) Cleaning schedule
3) Pledge to the playa: we will leave you how we found you
4) How to clean a playa burn scar - if you screw up!
A) Discuss with KAMPmates what playa-saving activities to participate in:
- De-package everything you can
- Collect all MOOP you find
- We can carry a garbage bag with us when we adventure!!!!!
- Clean up the mess of others
- Think "Clean" while we are there
- Ask ourselves what we can do to make things "Cleaner"
- Ask ourselves if what we are doing is "Clean"
B) Discuss with KAMPmates what playa-damaging activities to avoid
- Fire on the bare ground
- Digging holes more than 6 inches deep
- Items not tied or weighed down
- Nothing but poo, pee and toilet paper in the port-o-potties (3" pipe will clog)
C) Discuss water and food waste
- Shells of nuts
- Hygiene waste (shaving, brushing teeth, body washing)
- Uneaten food
- Food-prep waste
- ETC
D) Discuss have all KAMPmates plan to save space in their vehicles for:
- Expansive gear
- Trash bags to be brought home
E) Bring:
- Extra rope for tying stuff down
- Heavy-duty garbage bags
- "Different color" bags for recyclables
- Evaporation pool (plastic tarp with raised edges)
- Flathead shovel
- Cheap work gloves for everybody
- Altoids boxes for smokers' butts
- Vise grips for removing stakes and rebar
- Push magnet
F) Don't bring:
- GLASS
- Things that fly away easily (boas, paper, etc.)
A) All KAMPmates will perform a collective police call of the entire KAMP area
everyday before we leave for our adventures
- All MOOP policed
- All trash bags replaced
B) On leaving day (Monday: 09.05.2005)
- One last police call will occur after KAMP is completely broken down
- ALL TRASH BAGS WILL BE BROUGHT HOME!!!
Any refuse we find in and around our KAMP will be removed
and disposed of in an earth-friendly manner.
In order to clean a burn scar you must first bag and haul away all superficial debris. You
break up the surface of the playa a quarter to half an inch deep. (This is most easily done by dragging a screen behind a pickup truck.) Rakes and shovels also work well. Next you pick up all glass and metal debris and pick out the scarred playa. Lastly the playa is smoothed over and returned to an even, normal level. Sometimes this must be done two or three times in the coarse of a few years to have the scar completely disappear.
Do not dig the playa up or shovel down deep. It is critical to break the surface, clean out foreign material and lay the playa back where it was picked up.