Phoenix, Thanks for the update. Your new plans sounds like what I want to be apart of. Please keep me in mind for next year.
Ben On Sunday, October 26, 2014 2:03:07 PM UTC-4, )(hoenix wrote: > > My Burn was very busy. I'm still in decom mode! > > We had over 35 hexayurts on the playa. Most erected under our supervision. > All our renters / buyers loved their hexayurt. Our core was returning > Yurters from previous year. > > Only a couple leaked where tape did not seal properly over the top of the > roof cone. This was likely due to either too much wind as we fluffed the > tape down and/or not de-dusted properly (more likely). Floor tarps not > taped to walls took on some water. Like my hexayurt, but very manageable. > > 5/8" ply doors worked great. > > Breezes were a bitch! Several panels snapped on playa but were efficiently > replaced. > > In terms of moop on the road from hexayurts not properly secured for > Exodus, Ranger Danger reported that "most" of what he observed was NOT RMax > but less expensive cardboard. STILL, it would be a good thing if we could > enlist several hexayurt owners to playa / road resto, next & subsequent > years. > > Black Rock Hexayurts is slowly growing. Last year, we had 28 yurts on > playa. Next year, we don't expect to have too many more as we move our > staging to the playa instead of Empire / Gerlach. > > I would love to find several experienced hexayurt builders to join our > crew next year. Perks include, ticket, early access, Pt 1 credentials (NO > GATE road!), set up & strike crew cook & Reno one night outbound and > perhaps one night on way in. > > Long rang plans call for containers stashed north of Pt 1 (Mile 12 - gates > are Mile 8) at a venue that would allow outdoor building, "mostly" safe > from weather. > > Our experience indicates that 100's more hexayurts could be made available > to Burners this past year. Black Rock Hexayurts CAN grow to accommodate > this need, but financing and better management is required if we are to > move forward in this direction. I'm open to suggestions. > > Peace & Love, Phoenix > > On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 2:05:15 AM UTC-7, Vinay Gupta wrote: >> >> >> How was your burn? >> >> Did we learn anything interesting and worth documenting about hexayurts, >> coolers etc? >> >> Do please share! >> >> V> >> >> -- >> *Vinay Gupta * * [email protected] * *http://re.silience.com* >> <http://re.silience.com> >> *Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest* >> UK Cell : +44 (0)7500 895568 Twitter/Skype/Gtalk: hexayurt >> "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was >> in me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus >> > -- 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.
