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Anyone ever try Flextape (as seen on TV).

The weather here in the Midwest took a phenomenally bad turn last weekend. Where I am, we got 5" of rain and the wind Saturday afternoon was the worst that I think I've been through. I was watching the forecasts prior to the storm and would have canceled any trip that I had planned for the...

Mid-Twenties is no big deal provided no storms or big winds. In calm conditions, I've seen an internal tent temperature of 45 F with an outside temperature of 32 F. My sleep system changes with the expected temperatures.

I don't think that there is any measurable benefit to mixing fuels, but a blend of Methanol and Ethanol might be easier to light in cold weather. Trangia has a method of preheating their stove in cold weather. It seems to me to amount to placing the stove in a saucer, adding some alcohol to the...

In most cases that would be true, but these are original. While you can surmise that I don't wear them often, I do wear them when the conditions are appropriate, slushy and wet. Most shoes this old would have fallen apart on their own, with or without use. The rubber is still good, I keep the...

My boots will turn 50 this year.

Isopropanol is not Yellow HEET it is red Iso-HEET, which does not normally work well in alcohol stoves. Yellow HEET is almost pure Methanol. Methanol doesn't have quite the heat value of Ethanol, but it is more volatile and works in lower temperatures...

I use the moisturizing/lubricating eye drops quite a bit. My optometrist tells me that I should use them daily. Any opinions on these vs the regular eye drops? I also keep some antihistamine eye drops for the times when my eyes start burning, but that's almost always indoors.

Besides the band-aids, one other thing that goes in my back pocket is a bandanna. In a pinch, it can be many things first aid. I usually carry an oversize one.

As a person who normally just carries a couple of band-aids in his back pocket and considers that his first aid kit, I was reminded a couple of weeks ago that it is not always that simple. While out in the woods one morning, I cut my fingertip. Not a bad cut, but being a fingertip, it did not...

Ethanol is generally the best fuel as it has the highest heat of combustion. 12,800 BTU/Lb for Ethanol vs. 9800 BTU/Lb for Methanol. Methanol is more volatile than Ethanol and is a good choice for colder temperatures. Yellow HEET is almost pure Methanol and, where available, comes in convenient...

I started out using the little cross pot support and it seemed to work less well than it does without the support. I think that the holes around the top of the rim are too big or too numerous. The wind tends to blow right through them. I want to see what happens if I block the holes with...

I uploaded a couple of stock photos of this stove to an album linked to my profile. The first one is sorta what this stove looks like in the wind. I don't use the two little pot supports, but set my pot directly on top of the chimney.

I haven't given up on my twig stoves and I've got some 0.050" aluminum that I can use to make a wind screen, I just haven't gotten around to it. I was feeding twigs every few seconds and had a good looking fire all along, it just wouldn't boil my water. Lixada markets a huge variety of twig...

I've been playing around with twig stoves recently and decided to see how much wood I would use to boil a liter of water. I gathered dry branches half an inch in diameter and under, mostly Apple and Maple and broke them into 3 inch pieces. I had over a pound of twigs and my plan was to build a...

My own personal preference is Navajo Fry Bread. Same basic mix, but kneaded a lot and fried in very hot oil. I like it, but I'm not willing to carry the oil to cook it in. If I was frying fish, I might feel differently.

Whether it's called Bannock, Pan de Campo or Austalian Damper, it's all good and there are many ways to make it. I don't care to mix it in a zipper bag, so I think that I will go for mixing it in the pan that I'm going to cook it in. I usually add dried milk to the mix...

You might look for a MORA Scout. New ones are made, but old ones may be found on eBay. The new ones have a blunt tip and a guard. They are relatively small knives, but quality steel. The older ones are often laminated steel. Another good, inexpensive knife is a Marttiini Timberjack, but it's...

I haven't seen the Kraft cheddar cheese powder in the supermarket for several years. It was supposed to be the same cheese powder that they used in the macaroni and cheese. I used it on popcorn.

I use wheel barrows to haul rock and soil quite regularly. I have switched to the wheelbarrows with dual wheels and it makes a huge difference in stability. I would not want a wheel smaller than a wheelbarrow wheel for a canoe cart and might want something taller than that, if I could get it...