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The Love Camp
  • The Love Camp is a theme camp at Burning Man.
  • The Love Camp is not a turnkey camp.
  • We encourage you to participate to make our camp great!
  • Participate means volunteer for whatever work needs to be done.
  • The camping fee will include meals (see the Meals page for more info).
  • It is mandatory that you sign-up to volunteer for camp duties when registering to camp.
  • Bring a bike to get around on, and a bike lock.
  • Please read this entire page.
  • This page is mandatory reading for all camp members.

The Love Camp has been at Burning Man since 2016 although many of it's members are long time burners.  We are a big cuddly loving family.

Our members are a diverse group of happy people from all over the USA and the world.  Come and meet us!




Jim-dandy and DustyJim-dandy! attended Burning Man every year from 2007 to 2015 and since 2011 he has been the co-manager of a Burning Man Theme Camp, responsible for submitting the names of the core camp members to be invited to participate in the Burning Man Directed Group ticket sale, submitting the Burning Man theme camp Placement Questionnaire to register the camp for reserved placement, involved in planning the layout of the camp's main camping area, location of the stage and infrastructure (all the main shade structures), kitchen, cooler room, shower, grey water tank, renting the grey water tank from United Site Services, and providing the plumbing for the kitchen sink and shower.  Submission of our camp's description for the Burning Man theme camp public web page listing.  This website's webmaster & administrator of the camp's Facebook private group page.  Starting in 2016, Jim-dandy! (along with Ken) will be the camp treasurer and budget manager & will collect the camp fee.  To contact Jim-dandy!, send an email to Jimdandyjim@gmail.com [Click here for more about Jim.]



The Love Camp's Steering Committee
 
Logistic (James)
Logistic
Sassafras (Mitch)
Sassafras
Ken
Ken
Jim-dandy!
Jim-dandy!
Big Sexy (Cesar)
Big Sexy
Tree Love
Tree Love

Steering Committee contact information:
  • Logistic  •  LogisticBurner@gmail.com  •  510-725-9077
    (Logistic is the camp leader and primary camp contact for placement.)
  • Sassafras  •  rosenbergmitch3@gmail.com  •  516-204-3962
  • Ken  •  kshermy@gmail.com  •  510-520-3189
  • Jim-dandy!  •  Jimdandyjim@gmail.com  •  208-733-4105
  • Big Sexy  •  cesar.baltazar1@yahoo.com  •  626-622-6789
  • Tree Love  •  rublespeedracerrhodes@gmail.com  •  310-456-7651
     
 

This page is mandatory reading for all TLC camp members.

This is the Group *Description* page
but it also makes a good About page for this website.

This Facebook group is for past, present, and future members of The Love Camp, a Burning Man theme camp.

You should only make a request to join the FB group if you have made prior arrangements with someone on the Steering Committee to join our camp, discussed with them, the camping fee & what food to bring to share see the Meals page for more information, and plan to pay the camping fee & camp with us at TLC at Burning Man.  Just joining the FB group does not guarantee that you may camp with us at TLC at BM.  All of the camping fee goes to pay for bringing the camp infrastructure (gas for the camp generator, much food and water, and everything that is brought for the camp, the kitchen & cooler canopies, sink, stove, propane, pots & pans, utensils, and tables, etc.).  Paying the camp fee does not buy you reserved camping space if you arrive Wednesday or later in the week.  We will do our best to hold camping space for you but camping space is first come first served.  We can't hold or reserve space after Tuesday.  If you want to increase the probability of having available space, arrive as early in the week as possible.

Your personal generator may not be used from 1:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M. or until you can't wait any longer in the morning to make coffee, toast, or a smoothie.  Please be sure that the exhaust will not blow toward anyone that might breath it in!  It is a requirement that you put a pipe or duct on the exhaust that goes up over your vehicle so the exhaust is carried away in the wind above everyone.  If anyone complains about the noise or exhaust then you may be asked to turn your generator off.  If you do not turn your generator off when asked then you may be required to leave the camp.

We have always had a problem with the grey water holding tank filling up and then we can't use our fresh water for cleaning dishes or showers and we can't bring more than about 200-300 gallons of water.  The water that we bring will mostly be for cleaning dishes, so you will need to bring all of your own drinking water and also your own water for showers.  You may use the water supplied by the camp as long as there is water available for the kitchen sink and as long it lasts.  Jim-dandy! will not be bringing the shower with an electric power head because it uses too much water.  (And he doesn't want anyone else to bring a shower with an electric power head unless they pre-arrange for and pay for the rental of a second grey water holding tank from United Site Services which costs over $1000 -- if you are going to do this you must coordinate your plans with the Steering Committee).  Because we have limited grey water storage space, the shower is for TLC members only!  For every shower that is given away to the public, a friend not from TLC, or any non-TLC member, it is a shower taken away from an TLC member; please don't do that.  If the grey water tank fills up then we will have to stop everyone from using the shower and the kitchen sink.  Please do not expect to take a shower every day and to conserve water and for fun you may take a shower with someone else -- the shower is plenty big enough for two people to use at the same time.  Please use less than 1½ gallons of water per person per shower.

Always check the 5 gallon water bucket next to the shower before entering the shower to make sure that is it not overflowing with grey water into the black overflow tub.  If the grey water is overflowing out of the 5 gallon bucket into the black overflow tub at either the shower or kitchen sink then do not use, and don't let anyone else use, the shower or sink and please immediately let someone on the Steering Committee know about it so they can fix it.  Please do not pour water or anything (no garbage!) into the black overflow tub; please do pour water (no garbage!) into the 5 gallon bucket only.  There is a pump in the 5 gallon bucket (that should automatically pump the grey water, when the bucket is more than 1/3 full, into the grey water tank) but there is no pump in the black overflow tub.  The black overflow tub is not an evaporation pond so it should remain dry.

As a Burning Man burner and a TLC camp member you will be expected to bring everything that you need, including shelter, shade (all shelter and shade structures must be secured to withstand 70 MPH winds!), sun screen, food (see the Meals page for more information), drinking and shower water (bring 1 to 2 gallons of water per day; if you run out, just ask, someone probably brought extra), bike & lock, body and bike lights (be safe, use lights! It is better to use re-useable LED or EL wire lights rather than glow sticks which are not re-useable and easily become moop), etc.  Here is a link to a BM packing list.

Please take up a minimum of space for your vehicle and tent, feel free to share our communal kitchen (for breakfasts and dinners) & lounge/shade areas, and understand that this is a Leave No Trace event and you must moop your area, and where ever you go, during & at the end of the event, before leaving!  Please also read our LNT page.  Please clean up after yourself at all times and never leave stuff lying around that can blow away in the wind!  It will be very much appreciated if you bring food to share with the camp that you can put in the communal cooler area (located next to the kitchen; you are still expected to keep enough ice in your cooler to keep the food fresh).  Some camp members might volunteer to make ice runs, and you may volunteer to help make an ice run, but you should still check your cooler.  If you have food that you do not want to share, please keep it in a separate cooler in your tent or vehicle.  We are not a cafeteria; we operate like a family kitchen where the food, food preparation, and cleanup are intended to be shared.  All TLC members are welcome at the shared communal breakfast (10 am - 1 pm) and the communal dinner (right after sunset).  It will be very much appreciated if you volunteer to cook for the group &/or clean up after, including taking out the trash & recycling (please keep them separated).  We would like it if you helped us separate our trash into 1) recycling (like plastic), 2) heavy, wet compostible food scraps (like watermelon rinds) that can be dried in plastic netting, 3) dry, burnable paper or cardboard (but not plastic) and 4) all other garbage.  Each year we hope to set up a volunteer sign up white board for cooking and cleanup volunteers.

Please don't set up a table for giving away stuff in the kitchen.  If you have stuff to give away give it to a boutique camp that does that.  Some of the things on the kitchen tables may not be for giving away and the tables are supposed to be for eating on.  We don't want to encourage people to come in to our camp and take things and we don't want things blowing away in the wind.

Jim-dandy! (co-manager of the camp) & Ken are the camp treasurers & will collect the camp fee.

If you are willing and able to arrive early (the Tuesday before the Sunday that the event opens) and help with the set-up of the camp then ask the Steering Committee about the very limited early arrival passes.  (If you get a pass and don't arrive early to help set up the camp then don't expect a pass the next year.)  It will be very much appreciated if you can stay long enough to help with the tear-down of the camp (starting on Sun. but mostly on Mon. morning through Tuesday).  Tip: If you leave on Tuesday morning, there is no stopping or waiting during Exodust.

Thank you for reading the entire page!

Happy campers at The Love Camp in 2015.
Happy campers at The Love Camp in 2015.


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