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    Dwight Shackelford
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    @zydeholic

    Locale: San Francisco Bay Area

    I'm looking at that BushBuddy stove, and it talks about being able to find dry wood, or almost dry wood, or learn how to burn wet wood, etc.

    Since constructing my bivy (almost done), I have some 3-Layer WPB left over. I'm wondering if a pouch could be made to put prospective tinder in, though possibly wet, and that this tinder could dry out during the day as you're hiking.

    Any ideas? Otherwise I'm going to make some gaiters maybe, from the left-over WPB.

    Or maybe a stuff sack for my sleeping bag. Let it dry out more during the day.

    #1382374
    Erin McKittrick
    BPL Member

    @mckittre

    Locale: Seldovia, Alaska

    It is my understanding that waterproof breathable is relying on human body heat to keep turning liquid water into vapor. The tinder wouldn't get any more wet from wet gear in your pack, but I think all it would do is slowly equilibrate humidity with the surrounding air. If it's raining – the air is wet, the tinder is wet, the air both inside and outside the bag will be wet. Don't think it'll help you, but I'm sure someone will come along and correct me if I'm wrong.

    But if there's any wood at all in the environment, finding some dry wood is almost always possible. And it's actually quite fun to learn where to look for it.

    -Erin
    http://www.groundtruthtrekking.org/WildCoast.php

    #1382447
    Dwight Shackelford
    Member

    @zydeholic

    Locale: San Francisco Bay Area

    This material is dark, so I was envisioning just having it tied to the top of the pack. Of course, never having hiked in the rain, I'm forgetting that when its raining, there's usually not much sun.

    There's also the option of wearing it, say, like an albatross around your neck, and letting the body heat it like that. Anyway, just wondering what to do with this leftover fabric. I think gaiters might be the way to go.

    Dwight

    #1382474
    Vick Hines
    Member

    @vickrhines

    Locale: Central Texas

    Dwight,
    WB fabric needs some heat inside to drive water vapor out. A WB bag on top of your pack on a cloudy, rainy day will not get warm enough. On a clear, sunny day, the WB fabric would be worse than letting the vagrant zephyrs and sunlight dry the wood. And if the Bush Buddy works at all like other small, enclosed wood stoves, you can burn wood that is a little wet. It will smoke a lot, but it will burn. Some fire starter in the form of dry wood, pitch pine, or maybe a little alcohol doesn't hurt for getting it going. The best bet is to look for dry wood – which you can find even in rainy woods. The small branches on the lower trunks of conifers, twigs with loose bark that strips off easily, things like that. You only need a couple of hands full for a small, enclosed stove.

    Yeah, use the extra fabric for gaiters.

    #1382703
    Scott White
    Member

    @sdwhitey

    Locale: Smoky Mountains

    Dwight,

    I agree with the others. I don't think WPB would work for drying wood or a sleeping bag. I just used a small amount of goretex to make a really lightweight pair of shell mitts.

    Check out my post:

    http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/xdpy/forum_thread/6921/index.html?skip_to_post=49262#49262

    #1382710
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    Hi Erin

    > It is my understanding that waterproof breathable is relying on human body heat to keep turning liquid water into vapor. The tinder wouldn't get any more wet from wet gear in your pack, but I think all it would do is slowly equilibrate humidity with the surrounding air. If it's raining – the air is wet, the tinder is wet, the air both inside and outside the bag will be wet. Don't think it'll help you, but I'm sure someone will come along and correct me if I'm wrong.

    You are not wrong. But you knew that. :-)

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