April 30, 2023
Ron Gilbert's Celebration of Life Ceremony
On 4/29/2023 a Celebration of Life Ceremony was held for the founder of Ron's log. It was held at the Cabot's Museum in Desert Hot Springs.
Many wore pink as Ron was famous for wearing pink, plus “pink” was his burner name. His his brothers were present as well as some of their family. Ron had friends come from his various circles and family, friends, and city leaders who spoke.
Here are some pictures submitted to us:
Friend Jeff Bowman was the officiant.
Jeff, Andrew, and Andy have been helping the family since none of the family lives local
Ron's brothers and family who were present standing in front of Ron's pink Burning Man trike
Some Ron pictures
Ron memorabilia
Afterwards the family allowed Ron's friends to take some of his ashes to bring to events that Ron attended like Burning Man, and the World Naked Bike ride Los Angeles.
We, the Friends of Ron's Log, will keep his memory and content here alive.
Please consider giving a donation in Ron’s name to the various organizations that he loved and wrote about. In town: DHSHistoricalSociety.org and CabotsMuseum.org
R.I.P. Ron "Pink" Gilbert
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October 3, 2022
Burning Man 2022
It was the harshest Burn I've been to, weather-wise that is. If I ignore the many-hours-long wind and rain that blew one early night and somehow fucked up the timing belt in my truck, and if I ignore the second intense night wind that destroyed my shade structure, the weather was really nice right up until the Gate opened for Burn week itself. Then the weather got hellish. You know I can tolerate trans-100°(F) temps, and I don't mind the dust storms much, but when you get both every afternoon, day after day, things begin to get tiresome. Nights were much better. I discovered to my great delight that I could walk for MILES at Burning Man and my legs wouldn't hurt a bit, thanks to the new hip joint. My feet still hurt, but both hips, both knees and both ankles were like teenagers (or at least as well as I can remember what my legs felt like as a teenager). Friday was the exception for night weather. I was on the other side of the city when a blinding dust storm came up. I tried waiting it out in the shelter of some camps, but this was not a short duration wind. I actually got lost. Too many street signs had been stolen and I could barely see half a block in any direction, so it was difficult to find any landmarks, and it was impossible to see which way the roads curved. Finally, I found the D road and followed it the long way around to 4:30 and back to Burner Buddies Camp. Trying to cross the inner playa in such a dust storm at night would have been pointless and probably dangerous. I thought being on D road would shelter me from some of the wind, and maybe it did, but cutting across the inner playa would have reduced the distance by about a third.
Here's my complete collection of photos from Burning Man 2022. Included in that collection are 116 photos taken by my friend Duee. He doesn't use any photo sharing site, so he gave me these copies to post on Flickr. This was Duee's first time at Burning Man, so you can see what caught the eye of this birgin.
Here are some of the photos:
This year's ticket, shot by Duee.
Waiting on Gate road, Sunday morning, also by Duee.
Just a couple of blocks away on 4:30 was Rootpile which had Bluegrass music every night, and one night gave away pork roast, according to Duee, who took this photo.
Dawn.
Box Office being set up. This was five days before Bo Office would open and twelve days before Gate would open for general admission.
Digging post holes for a shade structure in Box Camp, where a lot of Box Office volunteers live.
The view of Ol' Razorback Mountain from Box Camp. My camp is barely visible in the distance, if you know where to look.
AirBox! This is the Box Office at the airport and this was the first time I'd actually seen it.
Burner Buddies setting up our rainbow arch.
Showclicks, the company Burning Man hired to handle the software part of ticket sales, was all new this year and included many birgins, and they all got brand new, shiny, clean bikes for the job.
Box Office, a little more complete, two days before it was set to open.
Gate, nine days before it opened for general admission.
The central spire of the Empyrean Temple.
The Naked Pub Crawl. The roads were in really bad shape this year, due to ill-timed rains. It was easier to walk.
My truck had to be towed off playa. Burning Man pays tow companies to tow Burners this far - just to pavement on highway 34. Here we all are waiting for further tow service or repairs. I got towed to Sparks. During the first big night time wind storm we had, enough playa dust caked on my timing belt so that when I went to try to start it days later, the belt slipped. I got towed on Labor Day (Monday) and the shop in Sparks was able to fix it on Tuesday. Enjoyed a night in the Sparks Best Western and drove home the next day.
Got a couple photos of Pyramid Lake from the tow truck.
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September 30, 2022
Some Art At Burning Man
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September 26, 2022
Heavily Produced Video Of Burning Man 2022
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September 19, 2022
DHS to Burning Man
Video from my dashcam of my drive to Burning Man. Ignore the date/time stamp; it was set incorrectly.
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September 8, 2022
I'm Home
After three weeks at Burning Man I arrived home last night with all my stuff, plus COVID. So, if you'd like to come by and taste some fairly fresh playa dust, that's fine, but no hugs or kisses for me.
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September 5, 2022
Leaving Burning Man
Most Burners will leave the Black Rock Desert today, leaving behind the few who will remove all traces of Burning Man from the playa.
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September 4, 2022
Tonight We Burn The Temple
This is the burning of the Temple Of Direction in 2019.
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September 3, 2022
The Man Burns Tonight
Looking through some art cars at the Man burning in 2017.
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September 2, 2022
Getting Around On The Playa
2019.
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September 1, 2022
The Man
2019.
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August 31, 2022
Dressing For The Playa
Alex & John, a couple of Burner Buddies, all set to go exploring the playa in 2016.
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August 30, 2022
Lasers
Light show from one of the dance music art cars in 2017.
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August 29, 2022
Rainbow Arch
2018.
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August 28, 2022
Official Opening Day At Burning Man
Here are some of my campmates in 2018. Crouching, lower right, is Ed, one of our leaders. Ed passed away just last month, saddening us, and leaving us a bit less organized than we usually are.
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August 27, 2022
Populating Black Rock City
For the last couple of days, some of my Burner Buddies campmates have been here on early passes building our camp.
Jim and Rocket pumping water in 2019.
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August 26, 2022
The Crocodile
2019.
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August 25, 2022
The Plane
2018.
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August 24, 2022
The Bee
2019.
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