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First day of the high hunt last year I was hiking in 75 degree weather with a tank top on, came down mid week and went back up to find 4 inches of snow. You just never know! I don't think a Ti stove will make or break your pack weight, might as well toss 'er in. However, I am not bringing mine for a 5 day hunt.
Quote from: ian_padron on August 21, 2018, 03:21:40 PMFirst day of the high hunt last year I was hiking in 75 degree weather with a tank top on, came down mid week and went back up to find 4 inches of snow. You just never know! I don't think a Ti stove will make or break your pack weight, might as well toss 'er in. However, I am not bringing mine for a 5 day hunt.Coming from the guy who wouldn't notice a 5lb rock in his pack. .Sent from my SM-G935R4 using Tapatalk
If I am out for the day in the cold I throw this in the pack.https://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/campstove-2Works any elevation.Burns anythingAnd will charge your phone.
Pretty sure you can use a stove in any wilderness. Some wildernesses will have areas that you cant have open fires in certain basins though
Quote from: zwickeyman on September 16, 2019, 05:55:28 AMPretty sure you can use a stove in any wilderness. Some wildernesses will have areas that you cant have open fires in certain basins thoughMany wilderness areas or back country only allow the canister fuel. For your jet boils or along those lines. Legally.
Ya. Always thought it was elevation more than anything, aside from burn ban.
We took a wood stove of my own design this year and used it in my Kifaru MegaTarp.Serious BTU output is a game changer when you're dealing with constant rain and near freezing low temps.
I'd be interested in your stove design, too.
Quote from: Fl0und3rz on September 30, 2019, 06:48:08 AMI'd be interested in your stove design, too.I'm interested as well. A miserable N. Cascades high hunt was what moved me to buy a Seek Outside tipi with stove jack. If backpack stoves were made of gold rather than titanium they would cost less, so I made my own stove. My first stove was too small and would go from red hot to out in five minute cycles. That first use of it was in -25 F on a late whitetail hunt and was almost comical in misery. Five minutes of high heat would warm the upper tipi down to about knee height and build humidity, then as the wood burned out it would freeze upward again, forming hoar frost inside the tipi walls. The next short heat cycle would melt the frost into rain. Meanwhile I was frantically stuffing finger to thumb sized sticks into the stove trying to keep an even burn going without choking it out.
Quote from: Okanagan on September 30, 2019, 08:03:56 AMQuote from: Fl0und3rz on September 30, 2019, 06:48:08 AMI'd be interested in your stove design, too.I'm interested as well. A miserable N. Cascades high hunt was what moved me to buy a Seek Outside tipi with stove jack. If backpack stoves were made of gold rather than titanium they would cost less, so I made my own stove. My first stove was too small and would go from red hot to out in five minute cycles. That first use of it was in -25 F on a late whitetail hunt and was almost comical in misery. Five minutes of high heat would warm the upper tipi down to about knee height and build humidity, then as the wood burned out it would freeze upward again, forming hoar frost inside the tipi walls. The next short heat cycle would melt the frost into rain. Meanwhile I was frantically stuffing finger to thumb sized sticks into the stove trying to keep an even burn going without choking it out.At the risk of sounding selfish, I'm going to have to decline sharing the design right now. I've made a bunch over the years and my current iteration series (different sizes) could be commercialized. It's one of the lightest, easiest to pack, fastest to set up and take down, fastest to start a fire, hottest/cleanest burning stoves with the best cooking surface I've seen when it comes to backpackable woodstoves.