[Land-speed] Steve Fosset Missing

[wester6935 at comcast.net]

The "Burning Man" crowd is extremely "green" and this year they put
a special emphasis on it from the print reports.

For many years Wendover has had a sanitary landfill just off the 
dirt road that continues from the bend in the road.  There's a lot
of stuff that blows over from there.  I think Tooele County has
clamped down on that but I don't see them hauling their trash
to the Tooele City dump.

The winds over the salt are from the west the majority of the time.
Not a lot gets into the hills west of the courses from those.  If
you check out the mining company's canal at about mile marker
14 where they taske the brine off to their ponds on the south 
side of the railroad you will see a lot of what blows off the salt 
... I've seen blue barrels, cones, plastic bags and that kind of 
stuff then you realize just how strong some of those winds 
actually are.

Wes

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Benn" <karhu at california.com>
> Based on accounts from several "burners" I've known, a tremendous effort
> is put into cleaning up the site by the Burning Man people.  Now, the
> stuff that blows away to who-knows-where--well, that probably isn't
> retrieved any better than the stuff I see stuck in the hills around
> B'ville after blowing off the salt.
> Benn