The order for leaving Burning Man

The photograph is a shade structure, a tall flag, and bicycles in the dust. It is still standing. It is not a camp we are claiming, and it is not a time for the drive out. MOOP is the sweep of the hex before the car moves. This page is the order around that sweep. After the burn is the cleaning, once you are out. We are not merging them, and we are not publishing a duration.

The hex, then the stakes

Walk the hex in daylight and again with a low light. Anything that was not there when you arrived leaves with you. Then the anchors come out. A lag left in the playa finds a tire. A rebar end without a cap finds a shin on the way to the car.

How the lags and the rebar were put in is shade in the wind. Why a tent stake is not that anchor is tent stakes. The lags we list back out with a socket. The impact driver is the tool, and it is tool only. Caps come off the rebar and go back in the bag. Count them with the stakes.

Gray water still has a lid

The gray-water jug leaves full and closed, labeled GRAY. The shower and the dishes are gray water and a short shower. An RV tank is dumping and pump-out. We are not printing a pump-out price. Contractor bags hold the trash. A magnet is the last pass for metal.

What leaves with you

The pieces we group for the way out are the departure kit: vinegar, bags, the jug, and the sanitation you were already using. Vinegar is for the film on the way home, which is the cleaning note, not a reason to skip the sweep. A rental's cleanup is RV playa prep. That list and this one stay separate.

• —Hex swept before the car moves.
• —Every lag and every piece of rebar out. Caps back in the bag.
• —Gray water in a closed, labeled jug.
• —Trash and moop in the car, not in a pile at the edge of the hex.
• —Departure kit for the pieces that have to leave with you.
• —Gear cleaning on the after-the-burn note. Rental cleaning on playa prep.
• —No drive-out time added by us.