Thanks Canoe - I appreciate the reply - great information!! So sounds like just cracking that exhaust vent when we turn the cooler on is all we need to do. Sweet!

Wow - I'm so happy to see this thread still going strong!! Hi Figgy :) We're on to a new adventure this year, handing the yurt down and bought a small travel trailer. I'm thinking up the best way to run the bucket cooler vent through jalousie windows (or building a new box cooler), and we're replaci...

Hi Figgy!! Come find me at Marvin (Idaho CORE) and say hello :) Staying on topic, hehe...We are repurposing our old Aluminet monkey hut for our bar structure this year, so I need to build another for our hexayurt front porch shade - the 3/4" pvc seems a little weak, but thought possibly someone...

Would using 5 foot lengths of 3/4" pvc with 2 foot long 1"pvc sleeves for the ribs, covered with shade cloth be a fail? Maybe do 3 spines of the 3/4" pvc instead of just one to give it more stability? I have access to about 15 pieces of 20' long 3/4" schedule 40 pvc for free, but...

My unprofessional 2 cents: if you spend all the money you take in, you have no taxable income from your venture - you aren't "earning" money, you are collecting a pool of money to be spent. Keep records just in case. If there is money leftover in the account at year end, however, you may n...

Thank you all!! We really appreciate your pledges and support.

Our lighting engineer just finished wiring up one of the blocks for Marvin - there will be 60 of these 4 foot by 4 foot blocks in the structure - epileptics may want to stay away, it's going to get crazy :mrgreen: Please consider tossing a few bucks to our Kickstarter, we are in the final days of ou...

Thanks Lucky, I understand - come visit us on the Playa whatever you do

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I was part of the Idaho CORE team last year and I'll tell you we liked the Thursday burn very much - by Thursday we were ready to be DONE with OpalEssence and enjoy the rest of the weekend. I was so worthless on Friday I couldn't even get out of bed to go watch Wall Street burn - good thing it was m...

ConnieH - as per the Low Income section of the tickets page , "These tickets are reserved for participants on a limited income who cannot otherwise afford our regular priced ticket." My guess is that participating in the Individual Sale would disqualify that low income application. As for...

You may not participate in another sale if you receive a low income ticket. That's all fine and good if you get confirmation that you received a low income ticket prior to the main sale next week, but what if you're still waiting to hear? Is it ok to create a burner profile and pre-register for the...

Our water-stealing king wasn't French, and looked in his early 20's - he told us his real name, but I don't remember, something with a J...

Sixth burn since 2003. I hate to complain, but this guy won my Jerk Award ribbon and reminded me how crummy a person can be amongst an otherwise-awesome group of people. You took my handicapped friend's water. In the desert. After we said no. We partied and watched the sun rise. We were at Disco Kn...

A "grandfathered" off-leash DPW dog peed on our egg, which is kinda funny to think about, but he peed on the electronic controllers for the $5k worth of lighting of our CORE project...he's lucky that he didn't get electrocuted (although mighta served it right), and lucky that our electroni...

I haven't been to Eplaya in ages because I've been uber-busy with the Idaho crew working hard to complete our regional entry to the CORE burn. This Saturday the last piece was screwed into place and our egg is now complete - I'm sooooooo proud of this crew and all their hard work!!! Just wait until ...

It's not a donation, you are getting an entry ticket in exchange for your money, so it's not a deductible contribution to a non-profit. Now for business owners like Dr. Pyro, he can write it off as a business expense, just like he can write off travel expenses getting to a business conference, items...

Buying land is feasible and could certainly be done. Dry grazing land averages about $500-1000/acre around Nevada/Southern Oregon/Southwest Idaho, sometimes even less. I happen to know a little bit about buying or exchanging for BLM land, too, although that is a multi-year process with a lot (LOT!) ...

And another question, does the December 1st deadline for BRAF's Letters of Intent apply to CORE projects? I've heard talk that CORE projects are "by invitation only", but have nothing to verify that with. Our regional contact recalls an email last year, but has since deleted it. We are try...

Does anyone know if the CORE project (Circle of Regional Effigies) will happen again in 2012, or was that just a one shot deal for 2011? Idaho missed the boat last year, we weren't able to organize in time

Good to know. I'm very interested in checking out AEZ. ... I camp solo all the time, but from a social standpoint. I tend to be shy and have a difficult time making the first step. I feel like I would enjoy myself more if there is a group of people who I have to interact with by default. I found AE...

I think I understand what Lemur is trying to point out - regardless of the "theme" of the camp, some smaller camps bring in more participants than Hushville. We did it with a megaphone and a sales pitch - there was a sea of bikes at our camp nearly every day, the bar was packed, people we...

I think I understand what Lemur is trying to point out - regardless of the "theme" of the camp, some smaller camps bring in more participants than Hushville. We did it with a megaphone and a sales pitch - there was a sea of bikes at our camp nearly every day, the bar was packed, people wer...

Hushville utilizes space more efficiently than any other village. Check the satellite pics. Before preregistration was required, we had Hushville Calcutta. Few planned interior villager streets, camps overlapping. We woke up to tents between the guylines of our shade structure! You got that right!!...

Just readin' through the hexayurt site again and there's a recent update on the flammability of the hexayurt using insulation made of foam. When a piece is burned alone, it generally doesn't burn so fast but apparently the enclosed space built of foam is a different story (read: highly flammable). ...

Small question -- let's say I wanted to paint over the reflective part of the insulation. Is there foil-like/silver paint that will keep reflecting sun that I could use to paint the yurt with? If there is, I wonder if I can add color to the silver paint or perhaps find various colors of the paint (...

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Ill be curious to hear whether the paint helped (and that it didn't crack or peel,) So how do you handle the tape anchors? I assume that you don't run tape over the roof from side to side when you make them, or you'd end up cutting your folding hinges when disassembling. Or do you even use tape anc...

Actually, the UV degradation of the tape is the main flaw in the folding Hexayurt design. If you have to replace the tape each year, I'm having a hard time justifying the extra work involved in the folding design only to have to redo it each year anyway. Now if I ever find a bidirectional filament ...

I was told the Man was a Woman this year and had a vagina...