The party is drawing to a close at the annual Burning Man fete on the northern Nevada desert.
Participants in the eclecticist art and music event had planned to burn more nontextual matter Sunday night before its Labor Day conclusion.
The festivity of radical self-expression climaxed late Saturday night with the torching of its 40-foot signature effigy. A dust storm prompted many participants to leave the Black Rock Desert before the finale.
The crowd for the seven-day celebration poorly Saturday at a record 49,599, up from 47,097 last year.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials aforesaid the festival ran smoothly and no major problems were reported. They made 11 arrests and issued 175 citations to participants, most for drug violations, BLM officials said.
Burning Man began in 1986 at San Francisco's Baker Beach and was moved in 1990 to the Black Rock Desert, about cx miles north of Reno.
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