Re: what's your favorite piece of backpacking gear?

Peter Clinch wrote:
Eugene Miya wrote:
In article <bQ7Vi.110$hz7.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dan <dnadan56@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Questions on two items;
Saw: What use is there for a saw when backpacking?
Hut work parties.

Add in reducing large trunks and boughs to firewood.

Unless I am 'building' something I refuse to 'cut' wood and think folks with saws for that purpose in the backcountry are foolish. I mean why cut the stuff when you can just burn it in half? I have better things to do with my time than cut wood to make a 'pretty' pile.

I guess I was taught young to make 'trapper' fires where the long pieces hang out the back side of the fire and get fed in as they burn.

And snow saws can make caves and igloos a lot easier.

Now that I totally agree with.

Mike
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: New Laws of Physics
    ... We have a very interesting class of "oxygen free" fires around here. ... They are called cotton module fires. ... These burn from the inside out in total absence of oxygen or air. ... spontaneous combustion of hay was a frequently claimed ...
    (sci.energy.hydrogen)
  • Re: Camp fires
    ... The bigger problem is thinking they put it out and it comes back. ... Fires were a bigger problem then both urban and ruralfor people. ... huge pile of coals and ashes that can take a week to burn up. ...
    (rec.backcountry)
  • Re: No Nukes in Space
    ... A few of those coal mine fires are still burning and cover hundreds of ... are ignited by lightning that burn for hundreds of years. ... I always thought it would be interesting to build a power plant on top of a fairly shallow coal vein, and burn it in situ to generate heat that would be used to generate steam to power the turbines via drill holes that have closed loop water pipes in them. ...
    (sci.space.policy)
  • Re: Ping Myal:
    ... greenhouse gasses produced as iregular natural high intensity burns tho? ... I think the natural base load of CO2, etc emissions would have been the same yearly average whether it burnt intensely or burn slighlty each year. ... The problems with humans is that they light fires more frequently on top of the naturally occurring fires. ...
    (misc.survivalism)
Loading