Skurka and Sierra Designs team up for gear

This is truly classic. Its like winter therapy for BPer's.

Maybe some one could make a buck or two on printing a few hundred copies of this on some soft paper on a roll. I would certainly buy a couple. Would make for a good laugh a few months from now while wipin' my butt with it.

jimmyb

Not only does he print all that Nestle/Purina money for advertising the "fancy feast" stove, but I've heard he actually boils cats from the planet Krypton on it, so he won't use the "supercat" name for culpability reasons.

Randy.

You bring up a few great points,and I will answer them.

You say that until you saw this thread, you never knew about the Supercat name or the stove's history.

Well ,you learned something, didn't you?

As to the stove name ,I'm not the first one to bring it up. Over on the whiteblaze forum the AT hikers the liked the Supercat stove and have always pretty uniformly called the stove what it is. Also, the real (Zelph) FanceeFeast stove was actually developed by several forum members there along with Zelph. So most people there have a different perspective about the terminology.

In 2012 when Slurka's book came our this review was posted-

http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php/83438-The-Ultimate-Hikers-s-Gear-Guide-by-Andrew-Skurka

Its a solid, respectful review of the book.

But, the last paragraph states-

"On the other hand, he is in agreement with many people here on WB as being a fan of the Super Cat alcohol stove, which he refers to this as a "Fancee Feest" stove, in reference to the name brand of the cat food can. However, I have most often seen this term used as the name of one of Zelph stoves of a very different design. If I'm not mistaken, I think his jargon is not well aligned with common usage in this case."

This guy saw it right away. Many others have also brought it up since then, and for new users ,it's confusing. And I feel tbe same way.

As to contacting Skurka about it directly? Since 2009 he hasn't been concerned about it. I doubt he would care to know now.

But I bet he gets all names of the new SD products EXCACTLY correct..

No room for poetic license there..;)

Mods are asleep? Post photos of SUHW backpacks!

"I attended a couple of presentations that Andrew did in my area. He flew there, rented a car, stayed in a hotel."

We need to investigate this to find out if he claimed to be spending the night in the wilderness at the same time, like in Alaska maybe?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpSlpvb1is

Oh wait, wrong adventurer. oops.

;-)

How has this thread not been chaff-ified?!

or deCAFFINated even.

Ha! A stove made out of a cat food can! Who would have thought? And two different kinds! So Shurka referenced the wrong one as the Frisky's Can Stove and won't respond to email about it? Has anyone emailed Frisky's about this? What about AAFCO? Personally, I prefer to make my stove from a tauntaun food can. It's not very UL but it has several other unique advantages.

But seriously and on topic, I'm so disappointed that Shurka recommends Mini Ground Hogs! It makes no sense! There are Ti V stakes (not needles) that weigh and cost the same and have similar holding power. I went over this very logically and in depth in another thread (though in truth, I haven't used them yet; but my logic and reading of forum threads is impeccable). I haven't emailed Shurka yet but I am very upset that he hasn't read my post and adjusted his recommendation accordingly.

Jimmer, sorry, but it just doesn't matter what he or anyone else calls a homemade project that thousands of people have made themselves. Also, for a guy so concerned about calling things their proper name, you sure mess up other people's names a lot.

I for one am glad this thread is here, for two reasons. One, it reminds me that posting on forums is mostly a waste of time, and I should be out hiking or doing something productive with my life instead. Two, it makes it obvious who the crazies are, so I can more easily ignore their posts in the future.

I'm actually paying for this…

Is it really important what he calls a stove?

Although the Bear Grylls video sorta made it worth it. That's hilarious.

So let me get this straight: instead of going out and doing amazing well-planned long distance trips, Skurka should have been sitting at his computer reading whiteblaze forums and the like, obsessing about terminology tegarding the can he (or someone) punched holes in?

Heck..this thread has gone so out of leftfield, what's one more humorous link???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRBD26CS4wU

It is a rather humorous one…I think. :)

No, this is a great thread. It has poetry! Poetry that even rhymes!

Don't move it chaff. If we had make-it-sticky technology I would suggest that.

But what's up with everyone changing their avatars? That's suspicious.

Paul: Hilarious video! :D

Katherine: Avatars have been changed to protect the innocent. Skurka might recognize critics on the trail and out-hike them to the most scenic campsite in retaliation! :D

Re: Hk Newman — "Yeah man. When I posted, I just wanted to see if anyone had any info on the snazzy prototype pack.."

OK, here's the "prototype" pack —

Patent drawing, Lloyd Nelson backpack, Patent No. 1,505,661, p. 1, 1924
Courtesy United States Patent and Trademark Office

Per the link below: "Nelson's uniquely designed 'Trapper Nelson's Indian Pack Board' will meet with great commercial success and ultimately be acknowledged as the first-ever mass-produced external-frame pack."

For more info, see: http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10624

I look at that patent drawing and see tiny bugs flying around a hiker. Looking closer, its numbers.

My sentiments exactly! Between this and all of the Gear Swap postings the signal to noise ratio has become highly skewed towards noise. Downright deafening!

Some of the cheapest entertainment I've had in a long time.

Carry on.

I think we should vote on the funniest responses: "ultra light panties de-buncher" and "deCAFFINated" actually made it worth wading through this therapy session.

Don't forget "wilderness dinosaur midwifery skills".

I want to post something now.

I like participating.

Here's the plan Jennifer.

You say "Stop messing with Craig."
I'll call him a Skurka hater.
You'll respond by calling me a narrow minded Republican.
I'll say I may very well be narrow minded but I'm not Republican.
You'll call my .51oz Cuben shelter weak sauce.
I'll call you a bed wetting liberal.
Someone will tell us to stay on topic.
You and I will escalate the argument even more causing a few of our responses to get deleted

That should be good for several more pages. We'll regroup then and formulate a new plan.

This thread is so bad its good.

Edit – Ian don't forget to work guns, global warming, and taxes in there.

you got to work Llamas in there too

How can an escaped llamas video go so viral?