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One of my passions is motorcycles. Over the past seven seasons, I have been down to California twice, through the Rocky Mountains several times and down to Nevada four times. I ride a 1000 cc Yamaha V-Star, it is my first bike. I bought it, and then learned to ride it. My first ride was 700 km through the mountains from Kelowna, via Lyton, Lillowet, Pemberton and Whistler than home to Vancouver. I was white knuckling it by the time I got home. I was lucky to hook up with a great bunch of riders who I learned a lot from over the next couple of years.
I'm a eight-year Burner and 2008 was my fourth as a Black Rock Ranger... which was totally fun and I must say Rangering is going to be on my Burning Man agenda (if you can have an agenda at Burning Man) in perpetuity. More than the art, my campmates, my fellow participants and all those unique “only could happen at Burning Man moments”, Rangering brought back the sense of camaraderie, discomfort, frustration, fun, excitement and pure intense joy that made my first Burn one of the epic life changing experiences of my existence. I have Rangered at regional events in Washington and Ontario and have been Ranger/First Aid/Peer support lead for the BC Regional events for two of the past three years and I was one of the founding members of the board of directors of the Greater Vancouver Interactive Arts Society, the Burning Man regional organisation in Vancouver.
This year I had the opportunity to stay for the post event period Rangering the DPW. It was great fun and it was great making some wonderful connections with the people who build and then make Black Rock City disappear. It was great hanging out at the Black Rock Saloon in Gerlach, living in the trailer park and getting to know some of the Burning Man senior management. No major incidents and all was good. I left Gerlach with two inches of snow on the ground and spent 11 hours fighting freezing rain, snow, black ice and fierce quartering cross winds through the mountains on my bike getting to San Francisco.
What have been my peak experiences for me Rangering There were so many… was it the DPW person who, when I first met her through a another DPW friend of mine who said “We don’t need no fucking Rangers” who gave me a hug when I met her again at Exodus as I left the event on my motorcycle… Was it working perimeter at the Temple Burn… was it the great honour when a participant asked myself and several other Rangers to lead a funeral procession to the temple, finding a lost 16-year-old girl from Gerlach at 2 am on the night of the burn. When we first found Kimmie she had eyes like the Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland and you knew that her Burning Man experience had irrevocably changed her as well…helping Billie from Arizona recover from dehydration, get reoriented to reality and getting his car re-keyed and then on the road home, doing security at the GCBEC or a beautiful kiss shared with someone outside the Moonshine Saloon and the many fine Black Rock Rangers that I have met over the past several years and am proud to call my friends.
Two experiences I do not ever want to repeat again is being the Ranger Lead on the Crude Awakening pyro load-in in 2007 and the Man Burn pyro load-in in 2008 through massive dust storms. After eight hours at the Man this year I went down and had to go to REMSA for treatment. I wonder what I must have looked like when I walked in and loooked at the line of people who stretched to the door and I just walked to the front and was immediately given treatment, no one on the line said anything. I watched the Man burn form a burn barrel at Ranger HQ this year.
I have been lucky to have traveled extensively. I moved back to Vancouver eight years ago after a three-year sojourn in Europe. I love Amsterdam (for the people), Barcelona (for the food and architecture) and Prague (for the beer). I have worked as far east as Moscow and as far south as Johannesburg.
For the past two years, I volunteered on a documentary film project about homelessness in Vancouver. The film is entitled “The Devil Plays Hardball” and has shown on the CBC’s the Passionate Eye several times. It was a tough project and I’m sad to say my efforts were heartbreaking when faced with the myriad of institutional, mental health and other factors that contribute to peoples homelessness.
If you want to hear an interesting story ask me what happened when I almost got married to a Tibetan woman one night in a little village in the Himalayas near the Tibetan border… generally it costs you a beer though…
I'm a eight-year Burner and 2008 was my fourth as a Black Rock Ranger... which was totally fun and I must say Rangering is going to be on my Burning Man agenda (if you can have an agenda at Burning Man) in perpetuity. More than the art, my campmates, my fellow participants and all those unique “only could happen at Burning Man moments”, Rangering brought back the sense of camaraderie, discomfort, frustration, fun, excitement and pure intense joy that made my first Burn one of the epic life changing experiences of my existence. I have Rangered at regional events in Washington and Ontario and have been Ranger/First Aid/Peer support lead for the BC Regional events for two of the past three years and I was one of the founding members of the board of directors of the Greater Vancouver Interactive Arts Society, the Burning Man regional organisation in Vancouver.
This year I had the opportunity to stay for the post event period Rangering the DPW. It was great fun and it was great making some wonderful connections with the people who build and then make Black Rock City disappear. It was great hanging out at the Black Rock Saloon in Gerlach, living in the trailer park and getting to know some of the Burning Man senior management. No major incidents and all was good. I left Gerlach with two inches of snow on the ground and spent 11 hours fighting freezing rain, snow, black ice and fierce quartering cross winds through the mountains on my bike getting to San Francisco.
What have been my peak experiences for me Rangering There were so many… was it the DPW person who, when I first met her through a another DPW friend of mine who said “We don’t need no fucking Rangers” who gave me a hug when I met her again at Exodus as I left the event on my motorcycle… Was it working perimeter at the Temple Burn… was it the great honour when a participant asked myself and several other Rangers to lead a funeral procession to the temple, finding a lost 16-year-old girl from Gerlach at 2 am on the night of the burn. When we first found Kimmie she had eyes like the Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland and you knew that her Burning Man experience had irrevocably changed her as well…helping Billie from Arizona recover from dehydration, get reoriented to reality and getting his car re-keyed and then on the road home, doing security at the GCBEC or a beautiful kiss shared with someone outside the Moonshine Saloon and the many fine Black Rock Rangers that I have met over the past several years and am proud to call my friends.
Two experiences I do not ever want to repeat again is being the Ranger Lead on the Crude Awakening pyro load-in in 2007 and the Man Burn pyro load-in in 2008 through massive dust storms. After eight hours at the Man this year I went down and had to go to REMSA for treatment. I wonder what I must have looked like when I walked in and loooked at the line of people who stretched to the door and I just walked to the front and was immediately given treatment, no one on the line said anything. I watched the Man burn form a burn barrel at Ranger HQ this year.
I have been lucky to have traveled extensively. I moved back to Vancouver eight years ago after a three-year sojourn in Europe. I love Amsterdam (for the people), Barcelona (for the food and architecture) and Prague (for the beer). I have worked as far east as Moscow and as far south as Johannesburg.
For the past two years, I volunteered on a documentary film project about homelessness in Vancouver. The film is entitled “The Devil Plays Hardball” and has shown on the CBC’s the Passionate Eye several times. It was a tough project and I’m sad to say my efforts were heartbreaking when faced with the myriad of institutional, mental health and other factors that contribute to peoples homelessness.
If you want to hear an interesting story ask me what happened when I almost got married to a Tibetan woman one night in a little village in the Himalayas near the Tibetan border… generally it costs you a beer though…
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