Stove or no stove

[Fl0und3rz]

I will seek some out.

[D-Rock425]

Stove is a game changer when it rains.

[ghosthunter]

Hot water bottle.

Ummm nice.

[slim9300]

Depends on where you are hunting, how long, what time of year, are you hunting solo, etc.

I have many setups and years of experience with both.


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[Colville]

Serious question.  Outside of your socks.... Why the hell are your clothes wet?

If your bag and sleep gear wont keep you warm neither will a stove, it cant last more than an hour in a pack stove.  So if your sleep system isn't warm a stove is no solution.

Youd be amazed how much drying your body heat will do for clothes too.  I both hunt with and without stoves. Except for socks, i dont need a stove for drying unless i fall in a creek!

[Buckhunter24]

Between precip and sweat it's easy to get wet.. when rh is high body heat and the right clothing may help but you're gonna be damp.

[Stein]

Serious question.  Outside of your socks.... Why the hell are your clothes wet?

If your bag and sleep gear wont keep you warm neither will a stove, it cant last more than an hour in a pack stove.  So if your sleep system isn't warm a stove is no solution.

Youd be amazed how much drying your body heat will do for clothes too.  I both hunt with and without stoves. Except for socks, i dont need a stove for drying unless i fall in a creek!

I've been on more than one hunt where I came back to camp and the money in my wallet was soaking wet.  When it's 38 degrees and raining or worse snowing and you are hunting all day up and down the hills through the brush, there isn't a fabric known to man or a technique that I know of that will keep me dry.  I assume I'm coming back to camp soaked and will be drying clothes and have a few spares where possible.

[huntnnw]

Serious question.  Outside of your socks.... Why the hell are your clothes wet?

If your bag and sleep gear wont keep you warm neither will a stove, it cant last more than an hour in a pack stove.  So if your sleep system isn't warm a stove is no solution.

Youd be amazed how much drying your body heat will do for clothes too.  I both hunt with and without stoves. Except for socks, i dont need a stove for drying unless i fall in a creek!

I've been on more than one hunt where I came back to camp and the money in my wallet was soaking wet.  When it's 38 degrees and raining or worse snowing and you are hunting all day up and down the hills through the brush, there isn't a fabric known to man or a technique that I know of that will keep me dry.  I assume I'm coming back to camp soaked and will be drying clothes and have a few spares where possible.

 

[Colville]

I wear synthetic base layers.  I wear synthetic blend pants.  No matter how sweat out I get, I can and will dry by my own body heat once I get away from exertion and under cover.  Laying in my bag with base layers on will leave me stinky but DRY.  I have never had a problem getting to dry without a fire based on the clothes I'm wearing.  A good sleeping bag, a big meal and your body heat and you can take soaking wet synthetics to dry without a fire.  Is a fire easier? Sure. Necessary?

I high hunt most years and get rained on mercilessly most every time.  Fire's real benefit for me is the emotional and comfort lift, but I won't become hypothermic or stay wet without one. 

[Buckhunter24]

Where does the moisture go when the rh is 100%? I've never tried to dry out with no fire while it was raining, but have heard it a number of times. I can't figure out how the water is wicked away/evaporated? Part of the answer I'm sure is I need better base layers.

[Jonathan_S]

Needed no but I can tell you it feels pretty nice to stand in a 80 degree tipi, eating dinner and drying out way faster than trying to sleep in wet clothes.

[jstone]

I am thinking about ordering a stove soon for my floorless shelter. How long do you think it would take to order nowadays?
Need one by the first of September

[444Marlin]

I just got an email from SeekOutside that they are several weeks out on some items due to demand and the pandemic - supply line issues, if you want one of their stoves, I would order it now.  I'd also check with Luxe.

  If September 1st is the deadline, you might be able to afford to be picky about make and model.

[Rob]

I have the seek outside XL.

I'm debating cutting up a North Idaho Fuel Log and splitting it up in my group on the pack in. 

Remove the spark arrestor screen.  I burned some duraflame in my SXL stove, and it clogged up pretty quick.  Perhaps NIFL burns cleaner.

Question.  What is an NIFL pellet?

[Fl0und3rz]

I just got an email from SeekOutside that they are several weeks out on some items due to demand and the pandemic - supply line issues, if you want one of their stoves, I would order it now.  I'd also check with Luxe.

  If September 1st is the deadline, you might be able to afford to be picky about make and model.

Got same email.

Any HWer in NE WA needing one is welcome to borrow a Seek SXL, if I am not using it or planning to.