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About bark2much
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bark2much
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Location:
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Bay Area, CA
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Member Since:
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Nov 23 '03
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Activity Summary
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Reviews Written: 19
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Member Visits: 491
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Total Visits: 39,285
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About bark2much
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I enjoy playing with stoves.
I find great pleasure in watching the blue flame after I finally brought an old, neglected stove back to life, having spent a few delicious hours of caring. I am fond of both roaring and hissing sound that stoves make. They take me away from the stresses I endure from both the mundane and the profound. I deal with many people, so I find my time alone so soothing.
I also enjoy sharing my views on certain stoves that I used. Perhaps, it could be of some use for any one who is planning to buy one of them. You will notice that I do not review anything besides stoves.
I am not a hardcore backpacker, so I do not find myself in extreme locales. I do enjoy, however, roaming the wilderness and the parks whenever I can with my family. I do plan to take my boy to some serious backpacking trail when my boy reaches mid-teen (I will tell you what: do all you can while you can with those whom you love to get away to visit places. It is pretty hard to find later the chances to go to places, after you have put off visiting them; you won't find the time, or money, or strength to do it).
It gives me a tremendous satisfaction to use outdoors the stoves that I brought back to life, boiling water for tea and cooking meals at a windswept seaside or at the end of a lonely trail. There is a great pleasure of having a warm meal, while others might be shivering over cold cut sandwiches and soda. You deeply appreciate the blessing of fire and fossil fuel, all made possible by the cooperation of the human invention and the divine providence. The Creation looks prettier with the stomach full of warm food.
There is a lot more interesting old model stoves in the world than an average person could imagine, beyond what is offered for reviews on this website. This website seems to limit its listings to mostly modern and/or current production stoves.
I value the modern, hi-tech stoves, but also esteem those classic brass types that are no longer manufactured but mostly found on Ebay. There is this emotion in these brass types that you cannot feel in the modern stoves made of aluminum, stainless steel, and plastic. I seem to have only a limited preference, when modern and/or current production stoves are concerned.
I also tinker a little with home-made stoves, made from old coffee cans and Altoids tin packs. These coffee can stoves can burn whatever is found on the trail plus alcohol. Especially, those Altoids ones are compact and meet one hiker's needs surprisingly well.
Thanks for visiting and leaving your comments. I am glad to find that my reviews helped you.
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