Luvia Williams, 8, of Scottsdale Ariz., near and her parent Whitney hole their lantern for motorboat astatine the Rise Festival successful the Mojave Desert, Nev, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. (Chitose Suzuki / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @chitosephoto
Luvia Williams, 8, of Scottsdale Ariz., near and her member Loxly, 11 hole their lantern for motorboat astatine the Rise Festival successful the Mojave Desert, Nev, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. (Chitose Suzuki / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @chitosephoto
Allexa Garcia, 8, of Los Angeles prepares her lantern for motorboat astatine the Rise Festival successful the Mojave Desert, Nev, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. (Chitose Suzuki / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @chitosephoto
Guillermo Garcia of Los Angeles , center, releases his lantern astatine the Rise Festival successful the Mojave Desert, Nev, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, arsenic his girl Allexa, 8, right, looks on. (Chitose Suzuki / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @chitosephoto
Whitney Williams of Scottsdale Ariz. releases her lantern astatine the Rise Festival successful the Mojave Desert, Nev, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, arsenic his girl Allexa, 8, right, looks on. (Chitose Suzuki / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @chitosephoto
JP Saxe performs astatine the Rise Festival successful the Mojave Desert, Nev, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. (Chitose Suzuki / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @chitosephoto
Allexa Garcia, 8, of Los Angeles writes connected her lantern astatine the Rise Festival successful the Mojave Desert, Nev, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. (Chitose Suzuki / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @chitosephoto
A pistillate takes photos astatine sunset during the Rise Festival successful the Mojave Desert, Nev, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. (Chitose Suzuki / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @chitosephoto
Participants perceive euphony and hold for motorboat their lanterns astatine the Rise Festival successful the Mojave Desert, Nev, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. (Chitose Suzuki / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @chitosephoto
Yumi Yuan, 8, of Los Angles shows her lantern astatine the Rise Festival successful the Mojave Desert, Nev, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. (Chitose Suzuki / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @chitosephoto
Yumi Yuan, 8, of Los Angles, left, and her sister Kimi Yuan, 4, gully pictures connected their lantern astatine the Rise Festival successful the Mojave Desert, Nev, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. (Chitose Suzuki / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @chitosephoto
Yumi Yuan, 8, of Los Angles, left, and her sister Kimi Yuan, 4, right, gully pictures connected their lantern astatine the Rise Festival successful the Mojave Desert, Nev, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, arsenic their parent Naomi Yu, center, looks on. (Chitose Suzuki / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @chitosephoto
Tri Phan kisses his fiance Ashley Ngeth, some from San Diego astatine the Rise Festival successful the Mojave Desert, Nev, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. (Chitose Suzuki / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @chitosephoto
Lofting a lit lantern into the nighttime entity on with hundreds of different people, those rising pods of flickering airy — that’s gotta consciousness cathartic, peculiarly aft the past twelvemonth and a half.
Add music, nutrient and the vastness of the Jean adust lake, and it sounds similar a capital-E Experience.