Backpacking Wood Stove for Alpine/Snow Camping, Part 1: Alpine Tent Use

Timely topic for me as i have a nemo pentalight with a stove hole that needs a good woodburner.

I love winter camping. I've used my lamp oil fired lantern to heat my 3 man dome tent a bit but a wood stove should be SO much nicer. So Tim, I think even if you don't happen to figure out the best "small suspended stove" your work will likely inspire others to make improvements. And then the culmination of several people's I'mprovements will be a tent stove we can happily live with and easily carry. Keep working on the design, improving each part of it until you think you have "IT". then please post here.

I want to see MORE!

Now I will go and renew my membership

"Not sure where "hot tenting" is not ultra light came from, kinda of like saying layering is not ultra light." There's a lot of debate whether layering and sleeping system designed for cold-camping or pulk, tent and stove is more efficient. What it comes down to is cold-camping is lighter as a kit, but one carries less food with wood-burning stove. Pick your poison. Still trying to calculate how many days without resupply hot-tenting offsets the calorie-consumption of cold-camping. The topic was touched upon in the book Snow Walker's Companion.

Every spare second I get from work I day dream about my fall and winter adventures and the type of stove I will build to accompany me and my pals. I have built a handful of rocket stoves and was dreaming up one that would act as the cob couch heated rocket barrel stoves. The design (based on what I have lying around)would be a narrow necked 64oz stainless bottle, upside down with a normal sized stainless bottle inserted up in a perfectly cut hole (where the neck was) but stopped by rivets to not touch the top (and be cleanable), like the barrel stove. The base of the normal bottle that petrudes out the bottom would have the intake hole on one side with a half cone of stainless foil strapped to the whole stove to act as an auto feeder, as well as carbon fiber to insulate the opposite and bottom side of the intake slightly. A chimney port on the side of the 64oz would go sideways at a slight angle so that the chimney could go out a door or along side a sleeper or two and provide more heat instead of just going straight up and out with the smoke. The stick in the ground idea is brilliant, maybe some of those metal adjustable ziptie like bands would weigh less and provide more customizing in foundation widths. Something to note incase it can be utilized, is that a large portion of heat is expelled out anytime there is a elbow in the exhaust, which requires it to be cleaned more often too