A couple of things learned at this years burn. This was my third year in a yurt, but I had never dealt with rain before. I always felt taping my tarp to the walls was a bit of overkill, but this year I wish I had. I had water come in from two sources. The rain on monday, obviously. But I also added a swamp cooler this year, and that leaked and formed a puddle on my tarp and said puddle then dribbled under my walls and into my yurt. Lesson learned. Tape your tarp to your walls. I also did a sloppy job taping together the roof of my H12. I ended up with a small gap at the top. This turned out to be a good thing, I suspect, because the yurt seemed much cooler this year. I suspect having just a bit of a gap at the peak let out enough heat to keep things cool. I have a couple of heater filters set into my roof. I suspect they are not high enough and have enough air flow resistance to keep them from being effective. Next year I’ll work on a way to create a vent at the very peak. I also found that my door just didn’t hold up. I’ve used it before just using some tape as a hinge, but this year that tape kept letting go. So it might be time for a real hinge. As I said, this was my third year in a yurt. But the last 2 years I had an RV. I think the yurt is a much better way to go on the whole. It stayed cool, had plenty of room, and was low dust most of the week. And set up and tear down were much less stress than I remember from the past. My only real fear is that I’ll arrive early one year to work on an art project and won’t be able to set up because of bad weather. Last year I was on playa wednesday before gate opened and we had a hell of a storm that night. I was mighty glad to have the rv that night. But I think the yurt would have stood up to the wind, as long as I got it set up in time. JR
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