Burning Man 2005: Kids Camp

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Burning Man 2005: Kids Camp

Arriving from our horribly extended road trip to Kids Camp at 01:30, our set-up was been postponed until the next day. I hate setting up camp in the hot sun, but CalTrans didn't give me much choice.

This year we have a rented GMC Safari 9-passenger van, our usual gazebo and parachute, plus two new shade structures courtesy of MSR. I'm hoping to set those up as public space for the kids, add-ons to our campsite.

Set-up is a challenge; the sun is hot and the wind is coming from the north, opposite the usual direction. I set one shade structure up to allow the wind into our central area, the other at ninety degrees to point at the common dome. Later in the week, when I take these photos, I've aligned both shade structures to allow the breeze through, making the space as cool as can be without dedicated shade material.

Looking north you can see into one inverted 'V' shade structure, straight through our common space and the other structure. Our van as at left, covered by a military surplus parachute. That's Chazz's van in the middle, with their sleeping room atop. The common dome appears at right.

It's a bit easier to grok the layout when looking from the west. That's the common space in the middle, the van hidden behind, with an MSR shade structure on each side. In the afternoons I raise the parachute section, giving us a view out to our neighbors and the Kids Camp dome.

From under the parachute I made this panorama of our common space. At left is one shade structure, leading to the central play area (the trampoline and the ball bin, to be visited in a few moments). I'm standing with my back to the section of parachute I raise, looking across the picnic table into the van in which the rest of my family sleeps at night. (I prefer the great outdoors.) At right you see the other shade structure. Remember, they're all in one line; it's distorted in this panorama.

The seats from the van have been removed to make couches, a welcome alternative to sitting on the playa. We have two couches, three folding camp chairs, and an all-in-one folding picnic table lent to us by our neighbors Benny and Kim. (Thanks!)

Kids Camp was designed to look like the Man this year. Here's the map that went out to our email list (slightly corrected and modified):

This is the view from our southern shade structure into the ball bin and the trampoline. These, like the twin trampolines last year, absolutely made Kids Camp for the children.

Let's see how the ball bin came to be.

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