Review: Clikstand for the Trangia burner
review of my Clikstand for the Trangia burner
Experiments with Meths
Do a quick search of the forums and you find that the general opinion is that finding meths in India is hard. Well this may partly be true, because medical spirit or Isopropyl alcohol (probably interchangeable or the same thing) is pretty expensive if you plan to use it for cooking. Ideally of course it would be wonderful to have your own reflux or 
moonshine still and burn pure ethanol in its virgin state, but that might probably also land you behind bars in this age of patriotic slavery. So we are stuck with burning methanol [ CH3OH ].
My Camp cooking gear
This is a first impression post on cooking with the cooking gear I purchased for my backpacking and camping trips. This test was done in controlled conditions. The items that I carried with me on my trip were the Bushbuddy wood burning stove, my Trangia spirit burner, the Clikstand for the Trangia, the Snowpeak Trek [...]
Trangia meth burner : Review
Having owned the Bushbuddy, and being very satisfied with it, I had no intention of getting another backpacking stove, particularly a spirit burner as I had been coming across information on the Net that getting meths in India is difficult if not impossible. Besides, here it is also an “offense” to carry any flammable stuff [...]
Water Bottle shootout : Klean Kanteen vs Sigg
Its over a year (or is it two?) since I gave up plastic. My biggest dilemma at that time was carrying my drinking water without leeching any chemicals into it. On searching the net I finally shortlisted these two bottles. It was just a matter of who accepted credit card payments and shipped to India [...]
Mountain Hardwear Lightpath2 Tent – First Look
The tent is basically supported by two different sized collapsible semi-circular poles which hold up the tent but need stakes in place to hold up the tent.
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