@Stumps: I think we're all getting used to the new rhythm and flow. Shots look great.
@LostViking: Here's one my "bikes". Stinking Flikr won't support BBCode from mobile (feh) so you'll need to click through the link.
https://flic.kr/p/KZ7qwx
This bike hasn't been across the country but the saddle bags have!
@BertL: The Svea went across country with me too. I prefer alcohol stoves for bike touring now, but the Svea remains the go to for cool/cold weather backpacking and ski touring.
My daughter has gotten involved in the outdoor leadership program at her college in California. I needed to get her a stove with an "off" setting to stay inside of Cali fire restrictions, which ruled out alcohol. Choice came down to canister (which I don't trust) and white gas. So then the choice became MSR or Svea.
I've carried MSR stoves out of huts engulfed in flames not once, but twice!!! Both times, the owners had managed to get their flimsy plastic pump assemblies first leaking and second burning. Then they just sit there looking dumbfounded as more and more gas starts spewing out and burning till somebody thinks about tossing the flaming mess out into the snow.
Anyway, I gave her a shiny new Svea and she's been using it daily for 2 weeks while we've been on vacation. Learning the priming ritual. Maybe she'll give her kids my old one. It'll still be working just fine. Really the best piece of gear I've ever owned.
@LostViking: Here's one my "bikes". Stinking Flikr won't support BBCode from mobile (feh) so you'll need to click through the link.
https://flic.kr/p/KZ7qwx
This bike hasn't been across the country but the saddle bags have!
@BertL: The Svea went across country with me too. I prefer alcohol stoves for bike touring now, but the Svea remains the go to for cool/cold weather backpacking and ski touring.
My daughter has gotten involved in the outdoor leadership program at her college in California. I needed to get her a stove with an "off" setting to stay inside of Cali fire restrictions, which ruled out alcohol. Choice came down to canister (which I don't trust) and white gas. So then the choice became MSR or Svea.
I've carried MSR stoves out of huts engulfed in flames not once, but twice!!! Both times, the owners had managed to get their flimsy plastic pump assemblies first leaking and second burning. Then they just sit there looking dumbfounded as more and more gas starts spewing out and burning till somebody thinks about tossing the flaming mess out into the snow.
Anyway, I gave her a shiny new Svea and she's been using it daily for 2 weeks while we've been on vacation. Learning the priming ritual. Maybe she'll give her kids my old one. It'll still be working just fine. Really the best piece of gear I've ever owned.
