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Sugar Bear 🍯 🐻 Environmental Biologist
🌲Black🏠Hills🌲& Moab, UT🏜️
📍Moab
TravelLight|SpreadTheLight|BeTheLight|
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I’m not sure we had any fun at my @burningman bachelor party. We just missed our ladies way to much 😫🥺
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Frfr tho big shout out to my closest fellas for one of the best nights of my life. Much love boys

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When we say we couldn’t have done this without those we surround ourselves with, I mean we wouldn’t want to do this without all of you standing by our sides on playa and in our every day lives. So many people prioritized going to the most wild and intense place to be there with us. THANK YOU for being our love & support on this day 🤍 @burningman

Our wedding ceremony happened at the beautiful Chiton Chapel in *deep* playa, and the day started as a perfect white out, coordinating with our White Wednesday Wedding where we asked everyone to dress in white with an accent of red🌹 Our family set off on the @nudibranch.artcar (We are eternally grateful for this team of friends, we literally could not have done this without you!), with a parade of friends on bikes. Just as we envisioned it 🚴🚴🏽‍♀️🚴‍♂️

As requested, the wind and dust settled for exactly two hours as we began the celebration and ceremony - We even saw blue sky ✨🤍🌤️

With our family surrounding us, the Chiton Chapel as our background, we made sweet promises to love each other endlessly. Right as we were pronounced husband and wife with Ryan giving me my official red foot, an angel turned on the lights of the chapel to help guide us through this next door together - as The Redfeet ❤️✨🤍

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Special thank to the following people who made this ceremony so so so special - we love you all SO much:

Officient: Vanessa 🦋 @v2g66
Violinist: Jason 🎻 @lifeargonaut
Photographer: Christina 📸 @adventureforlove
Art Car Team: Jamie, Tiffany, Tanner, Sugar Bear, Camilla @nudibranch.artcar @rejoicethefool @moyerism @tannerforrest @backcountry13 @camila.esta
Mocktail Hour: Lisa 🍹✈️ @lisalow_246
Dust Gal & Guy: Bri & Tyson 💨 @itsbweeeee @tysonhale3

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We are so grateful for everyone who made it to the ceremony to celebrate in the most untraditional wedding I’ve ever been to. It was absolutely perfect, we couldn’t have dreamt of a more beautiful time 💒

Post-ceremony pics to come! 🎉🍾🪩

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This night + This crew + This couch = my favorite night of the whole burn

This burn I really followed my heart - any moment, anything, anyone my heart said “yes” to - I trusted. When we rocked up to @sophistapirates to seek refuge from the rain, I looked over and saw this crew absolutely glowing - full of love, sporting dope outfits and big ass smiles! I offered to take a photo of them and the rest is history. They listened to my stories, we laughed, we played like kids… for like six hours! I wouldn’t change a thing. THANK YOU ALL for sharing your energy!

“Tangled” in @swadeky ‘s LED rope for hours was peek silliness — I love that about Wade, always plotting and planning more ways to have fun… such a true gem… equal parts ridiculous but also wildly intelligent, kind and passionate about his pursuits.

@nick.mustachio with a stach like that - I knew had to be an absolute legend from the second I saw him to our post burn connection. I am stoked for our paths to cross again — it’s just a matter of when and where!

What a crew. What a night. One I won’t forget.

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A few moments I captured deserve their own post. This is one of them.

I met Sugar Bear (@backcountry13) at Mud Man in 2023. I was way out in deep playa without a bike - not once, but twice - I found myself on the back of this gift of a human’s bike. We were complete strangers and he wouldn’t leave me. We had amazing and deep conversations that left my heart full.

We later discovered that we have some insane and random shared connections with @luckyluke_90 and @kamalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh which only confirmed what I already knew — this man is special and attracts special people.

It took me two years to reconnect in-person with Sugar Bear — I had to have major hip surgery and learn to walk again — but, when we did reconnect, it was like not one moment was missed.

Seeing Bill finally get to know Bear, was a top highlight of this year’s Burn. Bill’s trust and confidence in our relationship means no insecurity to be around someone like Sugar Bear who is not only model-like-HOT on the outside but insanely beautiful, smart and sensitive on the inside. A true playa gift to me… and gift on this Earth…

What I love about most about this human is how fucking SMART and humble he is AND how deeply he loves. I have so much to learn from you, Ryan, thanks for loving me just as I come. I promise to always love you as you come in return ❤️

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“We out here MAKING BURNING MAN GREAT AGAIN!” It’s not about what the BRC can do for you, it’s what can you do for the BRC and our community! Let’s take it back!

Drop below — how did you show up for your community? What did you build and create? How did you give back? How did you embody the 10 principals?

Let’s make Larry proud - that crazy son of a bitch was on to something big! Let’s grow, let’s expand, let’s keep building!

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Summer Roll - friends , loves and cool mountain air 🧡

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For the boys.
#brotherbear

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Touching grass and shaking ass 🌳😝

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From dark to light, this is the energy at the end of @building.man.festival on Sunday morning. I love you! ❤️

Thank you friends for joining me and sharing your embodiment of self expression, community, and radical progressive movement that changes the world. We are better together.

Playing on this stage was so much fun, but also producing this stage, and being able to share it for the weekend of Building Man, was a gift. Thank you to all the amazing artists who shared their passions on this stage ✨

To my stage team, @moyerism @mamaallowe @tannerforrest @unifymtnsoundz , bryon @bethy_mariie @eartheartfarts @sound.dunes.production @emmy51empress
Thank you so much for the incredible intention, work, support, and love you put into this.
This stage was a place of great reverence, opportunity, amplification, and alignment for all who stepped into the portal.
Lives were touched from these magic moments in time.

To my loving and supporting partner Rachel @rocknraquel , who cares so deeply for me and our community.

I am grateful to have people in my life that I can trust to share the vision, and couldn’t have done it without you all. Big thanks to @scottysoltronic for providing this opportunity and sharing this space year after year with a vision of a brighter future and a sustainable world. To the rest of our production crews and all our support teams that came together to create the entirety of Building Man, there are so many more names to mention but know you are seen and so appreciated!
Thank you for creating with me 🙏
Thank you @butterflyboycemedia for capturing all these moments and for being so present in filming our whole festival, you are top notch! The set is up on my SoundCloud, link in my bio 🫶

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Spring Fling ✨🌱🐛

Slide 1-19 (Me and my assistants)
Slide 20 📸PC: @scottyrog

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Vegas photo dump 1

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Another Vegas Sky Family Reunion in the books.

It’s been four years since the last official one, and you could feel that hunger in the air the second we all came together. Smaller this time, yeah… but somehow that just made it more potent. Like everything got distilled down to pure connection. The love wasn’t just present, it was overflowing, spilling into every conversation, every hug, every late night moment.

Getting to reconnect with everyone from the Sky sports world hit deep. Even though I’ve stepped away from skydiving and BASE, being welcomed back to share my music felt like coming home to a version of myself that still lives in all of you.

I won’t lie, I was emotional pretty much the entire week. Standing in front of the memorial wall… seeing the faces of the ones we’ve lost… that stayed with me. Tears came easy. The kind that carry both weight and warmth at the same time. Missing people while feeling grateful they were ever part of this wild, beautiful ride with us.

I miss my Sky family. All of you. The ones still here, and the ones who aren’t.

Until next time… much love. Stay alive, fuckers. 🪂

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