Black Rock City, NV Words & Photos by Andrew Wyatt The black-painted wood bar top at the Arrrgh Bar located at the Burning Man theme camp Camp Gallavant, I call home in the Black Rock Desert, is slathered with dust-covered stickers from various Burning Man theme camps placed across many years of the event. One sticker sternly boasts, “Burning Man: My vacation is your worst nightmare.” After a two-year hiatus of the official Burning Man, the event’s annual environs of the Black Rock Desert proved to be just as inhospitable as the middle of nowhere Nevada can be. The temperatures, while not reaching the highest levels ever, still hovered near the middle 100s degrees-temps that were higher than it has been in recent years. Covid-related supply chain difficulties led to multiple ice shortages that compounded the heat issue. Burning Man wasn’t the super-spreader Covid event that some feared it would become, but some onsite departments and some theme camps were hit with difficult out