burned off a quick hike this afternoon. Took the rain pants this time, and my acrylic wool sweater. TOASTY warm, and dry, unlike the last BC Crew hike.
Winds were blowing about 60 kms an hour thru the forest when i got there. Widowmakers were dropping all around the forest, crashing down loudly. Spent more time looking up and zigzagging than i did looking at the trail.
finally cleared the forest and hit the coast shoreline. The rain was horizontal and blowing hard. Winds were about 80kms. Waves crashing ashore, heaving tennis balls into the debris line. Spotted about 12 tennis balls on the one shore.
I kept hiking, heading east along the rocky shore, no one around, too miserable out. Found a nice secluded rocky area by the shore and set up my Kelly Kettle. Took a cotton, fluffed it up and dipped in it my kerosene flask. Put the wet cotton in the firepan and added a few thin strips of bone dry cedar strips into the pan and sparked it with the firesteel. The kerosene and cotton lit up instantly and fueled by a raging wind rapidly set the kindling on fire. I put the kelly pot onto the fire pan and added more cedar strips. The wind blew so hard i had flames about 2' tall ROARING out of the chimney. The water rapidly boiled and i added iced tea mix powder to my mug and had several hot sweet lemony cups of tea. The sweet smell of hot cedar smoke rapidly dispersed thru the woods due to the wind. The smoke stayed low to the ground and blended in with the fog.
The only place in the world you actually want a chimney fire is in a Kelly Kettle. I had about a 1/4" of creosote/soot built up in the kelly kettle chimney, the fire got hot enough to catch it on fire. It burned very hot, even after the cedar kindling had turned to white ash. Once the chimney fire burned out on its own I let the KK cool in the wind and packed it up.
Despite the early hour, it was rapidly getting dark. The sky was dark grey, the rain was coming down hard, and the light was fading fast. No problem, i packed my Jetbeam M1X with me with a Surefire E1L single cell as a backup. .
Spent the next hour in the pitch black woods looking for fatwood. Found a good score and processed it with my Sandvik folding saw and my Fallknifen A1. Packed it all up in the pack, and bushwacked for about 30 minutes to the trail in the wet dark, aided by the 700 lumen searchlight.
Got back to the truck , it was the only one left in the lot. Hit the highway and it was stop go stop go stop go for the next 40 minutes. Should have stayed on the shoreline another hour or two.....
no pics no cam.
Winds were blowing about 60 kms an hour thru the forest when i got there. Widowmakers were dropping all around the forest, crashing down loudly. Spent more time looking up and zigzagging than i did looking at the trail.
finally cleared the forest and hit the coast shoreline. The rain was horizontal and blowing hard. Winds were about 80kms. Waves crashing ashore, heaving tennis balls into the debris line. Spotted about 12 tennis balls on the one shore.
I kept hiking, heading east along the rocky shore, no one around, too miserable out. Found a nice secluded rocky area by the shore and set up my Kelly Kettle. Took a cotton, fluffed it up and dipped in it my kerosene flask. Put the wet cotton in the firepan and added a few thin strips of bone dry cedar strips into the pan and sparked it with the firesteel. The kerosene and cotton lit up instantly and fueled by a raging wind rapidly set the kindling on fire. I put the kelly pot onto the fire pan and added more cedar strips. The wind blew so hard i had flames about 2' tall ROARING out of the chimney. The water rapidly boiled and i added iced tea mix powder to my mug and had several hot sweet lemony cups of tea. The sweet smell of hot cedar smoke rapidly dispersed thru the woods due to the wind. The smoke stayed low to the ground and blended in with the fog.
The only place in the world you actually want a chimney fire is in a Kelly Kettle. I had about a 1/4" of creosote/soot built up in the kelly kettle chimney, the fire got hot enough to catch it on fire. It burned very hot, even after the cedar kindling had turned to white ash. Once the chimney fire burned out on its own I let the KK cool in the wind and packed it up.
Despite the early hour, it was rapidly getting dark. The sky was dark grey, the rain was coming down hard, and the light was fading fast. No problem, i packed my Jetbeam M1X with me with a Surefire E1L single cell as a backup. .
Spent the next hour in the pitch black woods looking for fatwood. Found a good score and processed it with my Sandvik folding saw and my Fallknifen A1. Packed it all up in the pack, and bushwacked for about 30 minutes to the trail in the wet dark, aided by the 700 lumen searchlight.
Got back to the truck , it was the only one left in the lot. Hit the highway and it was stop go stop go stop go for the next 40 minutes. Should have stayed on the shoreline another hour or two.....
no pics no cam.
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Jealous!!! Where'd you pick that up from?