Burning man shade structure

Note - many people have copied this design (brilliant, this is the idea!) and contacted me with their version, skip to the end of this post for photos of them and please send me details of yours! H...

All over the world, participants of Burning Man live the entire year in anticipation of the month of August. In about two weeks, the yearly event in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada (which is expected to host 60,000 people) will begin, and Black Rock City will burst out of the desert floor like a giant flower. During the last week of August until Labor Day, these residents will live in their own shelters that they've brought out to the event. These shelters take on many forms: from berber…

For one week a year, an entire built environment for tens of thousands of residents emerges out of the flat cracked-sand landscape ... then disappears again. - Page 2

There's more than one way to pitch at tent on The Playa. Depending on your style, budget, and personal needs there are a lot of ways to make a shelter to sleep in at Burning Man. I really enjoy not staying in an RV. The tent camping makes me feel like a kid again. Some camps and innovators take the idea to the extreme making amazing out of this world shelters.

Burning Man Skills: Gilligan and the Skipper had to build a "cozy island nest" for the stranded crew of the s.s. Minnow.If they'd been at Burning Man, it would have been much harder, because there's nothing there but flat blowing alkali dust, hot sun in the day, and co…

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