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I use these for my Mountainsmith tipi. Been a while but I'm pretty sure their still packed in the wood stove, bundled with the ends tucked with some cheap leather gloves. I also used those aluminum gutter nails for backpacking.

I'm kind of surprised there's not more single burner table top stoves, but no one's backpacking with them, and the 2 burner ones are not actually "twice" the size. I think a single burner stove with a hinged cover and wind screens would be ideal, but that's into custom time and money. I'll...

While I'm indulging in a little stream of consciousness exercise.. here's a box that has done some time as a wannigan. Originally this was a tool crate as part of my checked in luggage during my journeyman shipwright circus adventures. I've been threatening to build an ultralight wooden...

I still needed to run soap over my dishes so I spread out what I took with me recently. I culled all the titanium except the stove. There's a bit of nostalgia and the red plastic cup is actually a family heirloom. The flask contains bottom shelf single malt, which seems more metaphorically...

I was thinking about that. My new spot is in a shallower and less shaded area so the my beer wasn't particularly cold and the 1/2+1/2 didn't make it to day 4. But the lake was low and this summer is hopefully not the new normal. I think I would sink the bacon separately from the beer, just...

I've used the butane suitcase stoves and their convenient, but pretty much disposable, at least the ones that were used in a marine environment. I think I'll take a field trip to Cabellas/Walmart and measure all the different stoves, and then I can design the box to work with more than one...

This Coleman is what I was thinking of but would like to find something more compact. https://www.coleman.com/grills-stoves/camping-stoves/cascade-18-1-burner-camping-stove/SAP_2157355.html

I've got one of those and a Sig tourist set to go along with it. And I ran a SVEA 123 long enough to do 2 rebuilds, but for this set up I'm looking for something operable by the reptilian mind.

I managed to get off the reservation and up to Maine this summer. 4 days of driving and 4 days of base camping at nice public lake campsite and paddling about all day and returning to camp after dark. My kitchen was left packed away in a RubberMaid on the picnic bench all day. It wasn't...

The hull received considerable damage, since I had last inspected it, so it looks like in addition to patching the holes, I will have to run a full leangth strip of internal reinforcement along the chines on both sides. I have a bunch of glass work stacked up on other projects and I will be...

Here's the interior.

At some point a tree fell on it and it flexed at the Chines.

Another hole.

Got the hull home.

I've got a long abandoned Kevlar Mad River Malachite hull. It has a gelcoat bottom that might be salvageable, and a couple small tears to patch. The Kevlar cloth on the interior is very dry, and I feel like the hull has gotten "Soft". I was wondering if saturating the interior with resin...

A little late to the conversation, but having shared living space with bears, this reminded me of a bit of bear trivia. We all got along pretty well, but "for the love of God" do not bring any fast food wrappers around or throw them in the trash. If there was McDonalds grease on anything the...

A large percentage of my worldly possessions live in black plastic totes. Trip/activity planning involves finding the tote or totes from the last trip which will have the "mission specific" gear and then tracking down the more general purpose stuff that ended up in other trip boxes. Most of...

I still have the parts to the shed, but the frame lost some paint and gained some rust. I'm going to build a 4x8' tank and soak the frame in oxcylic acid to remove the rust, touch up the paint and then coat the insides of the tubes with linseed oil. I also have a couple extra parts to...

Well bad things happen, and tools were dropped and lay for a year. I'm starting to dig out and decided that I would need a shed to de-rust and refinish the unbuilt metal frame among other delayed projects. I have a second purpose for the 16 footers so I left them long. Gives my shanty a bit of...