Women at CCS?

Fire Yes.
For me though I love Traction Engines, but they cost too much and take up to much space! So stoves it is! lol

 

Welcome Joan,
We are sure glad you're here, nice post and that is a nice selection of stoves you have.
Itchy's post gave me a laugh... laughing at myself.

I will mention for you (and John), a review of the Action Gallery reveals there are plenty canoeist among CCS stovies, Itchy included.

Re your "Bike tripper", not motor bike right... all types of cycling (and motorbikes) from around the globe are popular topics here. There are many CCS links to be found.
About cyclists and along lines of Trevor's suggestion of kero stove this link comes to mind, a favorite.

I will tag/alert techguy_58 and he will be alerted to your compliment above. An FYI as to how I will alert him is type his ID preceded by the at sign like this @teckguy_58

You are in the Rockies (teckguy is near Pacific Range) amidst very popular destinations for outdoorsmen . Due to your area, on regular basis you can expect to find classic camp stoves at estate sales etc and also check CL (craigslist). IF Denver CL currently offered something along lines of a Coleman 502 I would have suggested it. FWIW right now even, there are no less than 3 sweet classic camp stoves deals on your CL (w/2 "in box" Sveas). thx omc

 

Hi,

A warm welcome to you, Joan! Your initial comment brought back some memories:

When I was in high school (50 yr reunion coming up this summer), my chemistry and physics classes were all male, except for one girl, whose name was Joan K and we all called her "Joanie." She was smarter than most of us, loved many of the same "guy" things we did, and could hold her own with any of the guys from the nerds to the jocks.

She went on to become a nurse, and I have no idea where she went after that, but it sure sounds like you're channeling her spirit! I hope you enjoy the group here and stick around for a long while.

Rick C

 

@ivan ... Fire indeed good. For me, there'd be little interest if these shiny objects couldn't be coaxed into producing fire. Perhaps the modern equivalent of flint and steel, and some gentle breath, coaxing tinder into flame. Kinship with distant ancestors muttering, "Fire good."

Reminds me a little of Jody's and my visit to Mesa Verde, and an imagined spousal conversation. (While their children are squaking and edging perilously close to the cliff face) ...

"Sweetie, I gotta head over to the kiva. Important meeting tonight."

"You and your buddies are just gonna sit around telling jokes. And you'll stumble on back reeking of Kickapoo joy juice.

"Nope, you're not going anywhere. Just sit your butt down, light a fire and help me corral YOUR kids."

"Aw, sweetie."

"Uh uh."

 

I've never worked on a traction engine, Salan - but I was a fireman on the Kent & E. Sussex Railway for quite a few years. Mostly, it was on Austerity 0-6-0s, but we did have this pannier tank:



and this Norwegian 2-6-0:



But the biggest I fired was this one, on the Bluebell Rly.:



And this was pretty good fun, though tended to shatter dip filaments in the headlamp bulb if you cruised at 90 for any distance. Not that I can speak from personal experience, mind - but that's what I've been told . . .



And then there was the fun I had with this little toy:



One of my best lady friends also had a Harley Sportster - though hers was an iron barrel. The K & ESR had Maggie firing steam locos, and the Bluebell had Heidi Mowforth driving theirs. The East Lancs Railway has two women firing engines, and three working in signalboxes - one of whom is the Sig. Ops Manager.

So you're in good company, Joanie!

But I really can't understand the obsession some men have with the 'fire and loud noise' aspects of these things. I was just drawn to them by the aesthetic appeal of the paintwork, myself . . . still, it takes all sorts, eh?

Jack

 

Jack, we have similar interests.
I am a volunteer at the National Railway Museum, north east branch at Shildon - the 'Locomotion'.

 

Coo! It'd take more than an eggcupful of meths to get that one going, eh?

Jack

 

Many Thanks for the very warm welcome!

My interest in stoves has been, until recently, almost strictly utilitarian. Not that the yearly maintenance hasn't been fun. Had I found this forum a few years ago, it's possible a couple of my early MSRs would have been saved when parts started to wear through.

I'd like to take a minute to respond to some of you:

John Paul, for me, there's nothing better than dipping a canoe paddle in some remote spot. And isn't Mesa Verde just wonderful? I first used that old Coleman suitcase on a trip to SW Colorado, spending a couple days with the Anasazi. My Mom, who was in her early 70s, could barely get up from the ground, but was game for tenting it.

Doc Mark, a few months back, I read and very much enjoyed your loving descriptions of The Glenwood. You tell a great story! I need to go back and take a look at The Bluebird. So glad your wife enjoys them!
Two weeks ago, I was in the middle of a 9 day paddling trip on the Everglades Wilderness Waterway with five of my best buddies, a dream of mine for the past 30 years or so. What a treat! The birds, the gators, the chickees, laughs, and songs...
I could tell you about canoe trips until your eyes glazed over!

Geeves, I'm sure your wife appreciates the fruits of your cooking labors! In my circle, at least, the cook doesn't have to do the dishes...

Well, Trevor, it may be time to try kero, though it does seem daunting. I've lately enjoyed reading accounts by some of the early polar explorers, in which they extoll the virtues of seal hoosh cooked on the parrafin-burning primus. I'll keep my eye out.

OMC, yes it's a bicycle, though touring motorcyclists often express the kinship of the open road. Thanks for that link to a delightful film! As to the Craigslist suggestion: I'm looking at a couple of those Sveas tomorrow, if the predicted snow doesn't blow up on us and make travel treacherous. I'm considering the Phoebus, and may just have to make the trek to Fort Collins.

And Rick, my friends usually call me Joanie. I went to my fiftieth 8th grade reunion last summer, and had a great time! I, too, was one of those math and science geeks, but gravitated more toward English Lit. I guess that's why I spent thirty years working as an EMT for Denver!

And there's definitely something about that roar...

Joanie- that's me in the bow in the last photo.

 

@Joaniek ... Thanks so much for your great post and your reply.
Yes, Mesa Verde is wonderful, as are all the ancient sites out there.
Jody and are using a new-to-us Kevlar canoe now, as it's light enough for us to bull around without throwing something out. Next Wednesday we're heading south to Ocholockee State Park on the Florida panhandle for three weeks of RV/Canoe camping. Photos to follow. With our stoves!
We bought a little Camplite all-aluminun camper a while ago to augment our camping experience. When truly canoe camping (the Adirondacks, Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Boundary Waters, South Fork of the Cumberland, etc.) we use Timberland 4 Person. (I'm on the large size!)
In the past we've dragged along a Coleman Suitcase. A monster but certainly does the job.
In the future I'm thinking my soon to arrive one burner Motor Sich PT-3 will suffice.
Do you have any experience "Camping Sauvage" with a single burner? How did you manage? Coffee first, then worry about breakfast? I'm thinking that'd be the order of things. (Especially because Jody is non-functional until caffeine titre is sufficient.)
I should mention that my own mom, then nearing 90, had me wheel her up into a National Park with lots of petroglyphs. She and Jody and I asked about many of the figures, and the Ranger said, "We don't know." And then hand wrote her a certificate saying, "Oldest climber to the petroglyphs." Brings tears to my eyes remembering that.)
Anyhow, thank so much for being here and having such courage to write as you do.
Best,
John Paul

 

@John Paul Appleyard Green, The venerable Timberland is a great, spacious tent, for sure. Great for a nice card game when the mosquitoes sent us inside.
I'm a single-burner cooker most of the time. The exception is those meals which require lots of boiling water, like enjoying a hot drink while fixing pasta.
Morning coffee or tea come first! i usually don't linger in the morning, so breakfast is a simple affair- oatmeal or malt-o-meal with all the fixings. I love steel cut oats, which I soak overnight along with some dried fruit.
Have a geat time in Florida!

 

@John Paul Appleyard Green,

Yep, coffee first, then oat meal and then maybe more coffee if time allows.

Last summer I was on a 9 day 6 person (3 canoes) trip and I brought 2 multifuel (kero & white gas) stoves which together were still about 1/10 the weight of a Coleman suitcase. While I never found I needed to light more than one, it was nice having a backup.

I also switched from aluminum to kevlar a couple years ago -- big bucks but it means I can keep on canoeing (portaging) for many more years.

 

@Jack Enright and @shagratork and @Joaniek - the photos of the locomotives, the Sportster, the Cannon, the alligator and canoeing are great.

We'll bring back photos from Florida of ourselves (I get to introduce you to Jody), our little camper, the waterways and hiking trails, our dog, and himself cooking over camp stoves. We like to cook outdoors as much as possible. We're often frying eggs or hamburgs or chicken. Perhaps I can cook up some fish.

We start the day with at least two cups of coffee apiece. Titre up, we move on to toast and eggs. More coffee. Walk the dog.

We're hoping that our dog Jimmy will do better in the canoe this trip. Canoeing with him here in New England hasn't been very successful. Perhaps there is a dog tranquilizer we can get from the vet, so he can settle. Poor guy gets overstimulated and overwhelmed I guess.

@itchy - Wow! A nine day canoe trip. Where were you?

 

I'm amazed at the thought of people canoeing in a river with alligators!! The worst we have to face in Britain is swans - and they are bad enough . .

Glad you enjoyed the photos, John - they brought back some good memories for me. And I look forward to your pictures from your Florida trip, with great interest.

With best regards,
Jack

 

@Joaniek ...
Here are some photos from our recent trip to Ochlockonee River State Park, out on the Florida panhandle. They don't appear in order taken because of a quirk in downloading to laptop, which re-dated them all. I hope you enjoy them. The canoe is a 17' Wen-no-nah "Boundary Waters" unit. Light enough for these old joints to portage.


Jody at dusk. The little Coleman, vintage 1950s. (Younger than she and I!)

Jody and Jimmy at the Ochlockonee River bank

Himself brewing coffee, in in his best double-plaid.

An English muffin toasting on a Primus toaster over the Prabhat

Jody warming up to be Prabhat, preparing some food for Jimmy

On the River, Jody as dog whisperer (in the past Jimmy has been anxious on the water)

Looking out across the River

Jimmy needs little encouragement to cool off in the cold, brackish water

Frying an egg over the Prabhat. Cooking outside much better than inside, and the flame regulation of the Prabhat is superior to that of the Coleman propane stove there.

Looking downstream over our canoe

Don't know, but they're a pretty lavender

Don't know, but they're a pretty orange

Heading South, dry camping at Walmart. Walmart was very accommodating.

Canoe, River, shore, trees, sky

White squirrels abound at this State Park

Not unlike @presscall with his Motor Sich, burning the cheesy brass-ish spray-on finish off the Prabhat ring

An honest-to-gosh Made in Syracuse Dietz Comet lantern. Shades (no, illuminations) of my Boy Scout youth.

Herself in the bow with Jimmy, himself holding down (!!) the stern

We loved this tree, its several deep holes for owls and such

 

Beatyful trip @John Paul Appleyard Green !

Great photos.

Cheers

Enrique

 

Looks like time well spent, you have a nice set up there.
Ivan

 

Thank you @shueilung.2008 and @IvanN

 

@John Paul Appleyard Green ,

Wonderful photos of what appears to be an excellent trip!! Thanks for sharing! We always wanted a Wenonah canoe, but back when we lived in Minnesota, all we could afford was a 17' Alumnacraft, and though heavier by a good bit, it's always served us well, and we still own it. The photos were very lovely, by the way. What camera did you use? Or, were you using a cell phone/iPad? The cameras in those are far better than they used to be! Thanks, again, and God Bless!

Every Good Wish,
Doc

 

Excellent pix!

 

@Doc Mark... Thanks. We started married life with a huge fiberglass freighter canoe we nicknamed "Party Barge." Long, heavy, stable as a barge, tracked wonderfully. Our son has it now. Repairs dings and scrapes every year and uses it on long haul. I've thought that aluminum canoes are very good. Learned on one as a Boy Scout. We'd swamp them and then rock water out of until we could climb in and bail with our hands. Took time. Gave a feeling of accomplishment.

Cameras? Nikon D90, Fujifilm X100S, Google Pixel and iPhone 5 cellphones. All great cameras in their own rights. Cokin Blue/Yellow polarizing filter and regular polarizing filter. In camera enhancement with the Pixel.

@Ed Winskill... Thank you.