Recent content by night prowler

I've only used Trangia alcohol and Optimus / Svea gas stoves in the past . I recently picked up a Markill canister stove thinking it would not be as quirky as the other two but I find it flares up just as bad as a white gas stove . This is my first canister stove so I'm not exactly sure...

I've also seen these. They could probably be refilled with white gas if you had nothing elseto use . But I would rather a mini butane or mini torch if my life depended on it .

The wind / waterproof matches work great , kind of like a mini sparkler . I keep an assortment of matches in an old medicine bottle with a cotton ball soaked in petroleum jelly and a few strikers . A good trick to use with an 8R Optimus is to keep a few cotton swabs ( Q tips ) with it . Dip...

Best car sleeping ever was my 1977 Cadillac Eldorado . At 5'11" I could lay flat across the front OR back seat without touching the doors ! I spent quite a few nights upstate NY and down the Jersey shore in her . I'm sure glad I don't have to fill up that 24 gallon gas tank matched with a 501...

Nice job ! I've been thinking of building one myself but with the past few winters here in Jersey I'd have to scrape half the state's total snowfall to build an igloo :mad:

I've had 2WD pickup trucks ( Dodge and Chevy ) for years . The main road up the hill (NJ mountain ) is about a 14 percent grade with a few tight turns . I have used SCC's "Z" cables on both vehicles and found them to work great and the best part is they take less than 5 minutes to put on . Many...

Okay how about this take . Maybe not the world's worst weather but the most dangerous . My reason for that being the amount of people that are on the hill on any given day . Sure K2 , Everest or any other peak for that matter can have worse weather but think about how many people are actually...

I've used Sorels and Columbias for snowshoeing but they have too much flex when used with crampons for me.I found these from Chippewa .Insulated and fur lined (very cozy ! ) these match the warmth of most plastics and handle crampon work better than the softer soled boots . Warm , sturdy , and...

The rocket scientist with that video camera would get a serious butt whoopin if It were me in that sleeping bag.Anyone who grabs a camera instead of attemting to deter a bear sniffing around someone sleeping should be locked up . Soapbox issues aside , It has been very dry in north Jersey this...