Reminds me of Iraq.
I remember washing my hair after a sandstorm and seeing all of that blecchh rinsing down into the shower drain.
I worked in Gerlach right when burning man started. The playa used to be the beginning of the wilderness, now it might as well be LA. All of the natural hotsprings ringing the area have all now have the encephalitis bug due to years of constant hippie juice and are all unusable. Unfortunately, they have discovered other places like Kumiva Valley and Blue Wing and the Lava Beds (cool unique rock formations and natural arches) area nearby and are working on closing those areas down. They have just about destroyed what was left of the few ghost towns left in the Seven Troughs mountains nearby by taking a stone here, or a piece of machinery there. They closed down all of the roads from the fly geyser side of the Granite Range to prevent people from accessing skull meadows and the entire east side of the range specifically to stop deer and antelope hunting as they also locked the entire Calico Range and the north end of the black rock range from soldier meadows and paihute peak north into wilderness areas also to stop deer hunting, and pretty much blocked off vast areas all the way north through summit lakes and the Sheldon antelope range all the way to Denio, as this was Clintons last act in office.