Followthesun
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Like many of us, the emergence of covid19 caught us by surprise and ripped away any notion of a summer getaway to hedonistic islands and what not.
It was also a massive dunt for most of my hobbies that I partake in - cycling, running and the like. The whole 5 mile exclusion zone made sense, but was never really practical.
I digress. It did give me a lot of time to reflect on things and one of them was a desire to go wild camping. I have to admit, the inspiration came from youtube. Channels such as 'Dragon Outdoors' and 'Paul Messner' introduced me to a world I never knew.
Before i knew it, I was buying gear left right and centre and one of my first purchases was a solostove titan. An american designed wood burner that uses combustible fuel such as twigs, branches, pine cones, you name it. Considering it was American, where summer is actually warm a lot of the time, then it probably isn't hard to find such items. However, on a wet night/day in Scotland it can be. Therefore, I combine it with a small trangia alcohol burner as a back up and it's good to go. A terrific bit of kit that was extremely well reviewed, well designed and portable, I simply had to get it.
In hindsight, I probably would have got the slightly smaller version (Solostove lite) as it's even more portable when purchased with the matching 900ml pot which can be transported in one.
Can't fault this guys!
It was also a massive dunt for most of my hobbies that I partake in - cycling, running and the like. The whole 5 mile exclusion zone made sense, but was never really practical.
I digress. It did give me a lot of time to reflect on things and one of them was a desire to go wild camping. I have to admit, the inspiration came from youtube. Channels such as 'Dragon Outdoors' and 'Paul Messner' introduced me to a world I never knew.
Before i knew it, I was buying gear left right and centre and one of my first purchases was a solostove titan. An american designed wood burner that uses combustible fuel such as twigs, branches, pine cones, you name it. Considering it was American, where summer is actually warm a lot of the time, then it probably isn't hard to find such items. However, on a wet night/day in Scotland it can be. Therefore, I combine it with a small trangia alcohol burner as a back up and it's good to go. A terrific bit of kit that was extremely well reviewed, well designed and portable, I simply had to get it.
In hindsight, I probably would have got the slightly smaller version (Solostove lite) as it's even more portable when purchased with the matching 900ml pot which can be transported in one.
Can't fault this guys!