Nature and Greening Your Burn Bike Tours – 2019

We have so many events this year that we’re splitting the event postings into multiple postings. This year we have:

Bike Tours!

Bike Tours!

  • Bike and Nature Tours
  • Parties and Gatherings
  • Native Voices – Aztec Burners
  • Sustainable BRC – Workshops for You
  • Sustainable BRC – Energy/Climate Solutions
  • Black Rock NCA – Focus on Local
  • Inspiration and Solutions for the Planet
  • Training and Volunteer Meetings

This post gives you more details about our Bike and Nature Tours.  See our full schedule here! In past years we’ve driven participants out to Black Rock for a nature tour, this year we’re going green and biking to see nature in BRC.

BYOB – Bring your own bike!

Monday

9:00 AM – 11:30 AM – Playa Nature Bike Tour – The playa seems featureless, but the lake bed is a complex environment. Facilitated by a nature therapy guide, search for clues to the shape of the constantly changing surface. See how our city and art affects the environment, and how Burning Man strives to Leave No Trace.

Tuesday

6:30 AM – 8:30AM –  Experience Deep Time on the Playa Bike Tour: This is your opportunity to contemplate Deep Time while on the playa. Your journey will be led by geology experts Drs. Elizabeth Miller (Stanford U) and John Dilles (Oregon SU). Bike to the outer playa to contemplate the history of this place we call home, from the deep time geologic framework to the ice ages, first human inhabitants in the region, post-glacial warming and inexorable warming of the Anthropocene era. Burn baby burn! P.S. Deep Time = Geologic Time.

Wednesday

6:30 AM – 8:30 AM –  Experience Deep Time on the Playa Bike Tour: This is your opportunity to contemplate Deep Time while on the playa. Your journey will be led by geology experts Drs. Elizabeth Miller (Stanford U) and John Dilles (Oregon SU). Bike to the outer playa to contemplate the history of this place we call home, from the deep time geologic framework to the ice ages, first human inhabitants in the region, post-glacial warming and inexorable warming of the Anthropocene era. Burn baby burn! P.S. Deep Time = Geologic Time.

Thursday

5:00 PM – 7:30 PM – Playa Nature Bike Tour – The playa seems featureless, but the lake bed is a complex environment. Facilitated by a nature therapy guide, search for clues to the shape of the constantly changing surface. See how our city and art affects the environment, and how Burning Man strives to Leave No Trace.

Andy leads another sunrise playa dynamics tour!

Andy leads another sunrise playa dynamics tour!

Friday

9:30 AM – 12:00 PM – Playa Nature Bike Tour – The playa seems featureless, but the lake bed is a complex environment. Facilitated by a nature therapy guide, search for clues to the shape of the constantly changing surface. See how our city and art affects the environment, and how Burning Man strives to Leave No Trace.

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM – Behind the Green Curtain Bike Tour: An interpretive bike tour of some of Black Rock City’s Green camps featuring solar installations, grey water set ups, recycling efforts, plastic-free living, solar cookers and much more, Come see what innovators are doing to make Black Rock City more environmentally friendly.

Saturday

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM – Behind the Green Curtain Bike Tour – An interpretive bike tour of some of Black Rock City’s Green camps featuring solar installations, grey water set ups, recycling efforts, plastic-free living, solar cookers and much more. Come see what innovators are doing to make Black Rock City more environmentally friendly.

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