Past Events

2000s

• 2007 Events
• Northern California Rover Club - Pyramid Lake/Black Rock Desert - August 8-10 2003

1990s

• The Black Rock Self Invitational Golf Tournament
  • Douglas Keister, "A Short History of the Black Rock Self-Invitational Desert Classic"
  • Douglas Keister, "The Black Rock Self Invitational Golf Tournament"
  • Douglas Keister, Video of the 1995 event
  • Douglas Keister, "Black Rock: Portraits on the Playa." "The biggest addition came in 1994 when we started painting all the “greens” with the same paint that is used to paint the end zones of football fields."
  • Lodi News-Sentinel Sun, "Wacky Hackers - no green fees on this golf course; no greens, either," July 22, 1995

1980s

• Croquet x Machina Labor Day, 1987
  • September 13, 1987, San Francisco Examiner/
  • Gary Kamiya, "Wicked Wickets Out West: Who would believe croquet could be this BIG in the desert?," April 11, 1988, Sports Illustrated.
  • "What A Whack," Sep 7, 1987, p. 15, Reno Gazette-Journal. Includes photo.

• Ya Gotta Regatta, 1989
  • photo

See Also

• [Current Events]
• See the Timeline for a detailed history of the Black Rock Desert region.