Hey y'all ~ When I saw the headline for this post, I imagined yurts at some stage of tear-down and loading getting blown astray - or worse, being abandoned (so I'd be interested in how that quantified).
Of course, reading it revealed a problem pretty hard to miss on the roads away from BRC - just as darxus reports. Bringing the large amounts of stuff - from art to experimental dwellings to costumes and consumables are all part of what make the experience what it is - so we deal with it better. It's legitimate to call out yurts specifically. There are more every year (because they're such as cool dwelling solution), but that really means we need to solve the transport problem. It's kind of unique to yurts because it's possible and tempting to flap a stack of insulation boards on your roof rack and drive. They're light. But as noted, they're also fragile. Even though they're modular and collapsible, they do take up significant space in garages, etc. *Conceptually simple solution:* Store them more or less on the playa. As I understand it, many organized camps have storage containers left on adjacent non-BLM land which are transported to & from campsites for each year's burn by BLC "facilities" guys (someone help me out with their official name... and contact info, please). *Real-world wrinkles:* ..Attendance uncertainty, maintenance/repair/remodel/replace and on-playa logistics. None of that is easy, I got a little look at that by making almost 30 yurts, getting them to people (mostly on-playa), dealing with supplier delays, weather delays, entry delays, people not coming after all, unforeseen "variation" in user/owner setup and breakdown etc. Then, "What's worth saving?" - which means cleaning up dust, messed up tape, dings, etc. I'm pretty sure a significant percentage of yurts come out of the garage 5 years after their only burn and just land in the trash (carbon/general environmental footprint???). So it's not a "simple" solution. But is there a better one? It's certainly not a one solution fits all world either. Camps and other groups carefully collect yurts and put them in the camp storage. But not every camp does this for everyone all the time. Thoughts? Dan On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 7:49 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://blog.burningman.com/2014/09/environment/moop-map-2014-roadside-poop-hexamoop/ > > 'The second, more surprising 2014 trend: hexayurts. Large numbers > of broken hexayurt panels wound up littering the highway, scattering > little bits of styrofoam through the sage. Solution: Strap your hexayurt > panels more carefully, so they won’t bend and break when you hit > highway speeds. > > “Wrap your yurts! They fly away, and once it hits the sagebrush, > it’s over,” says Ninjalina, Highway Cleanup Assistant Manager. The > prickly branches catch bits of foam and wood as they blow past in the > wind, creating an extended trail of littered brush. > > “My truck alone picked up 64 contractor bags of trash, 30 tires, > 20 yurt panels and a bunch of miscellaneous stuff,” Ninjalina says.' > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
