From: Jim Moss (BSARecLaw@Earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 12:40:20 CST
As many of you know, I have been a big believer in MSR stoves and still am. (I have four of them.) However, I believe that the Nova Multi Fuel stove is a better stove for Scouts. It has all the functions of the MSR with one additional one. It bleeds the fuel pressure off after burning, without any problems. (They call it the self purging aluminum flip stop pump.)
If you are going to buy new stoves, I recommend checking this one out.
http://www.brunton.com/catalog.php
No interest in the stove other than personal.
Jim Moss
PO Box 2656
Silverthorne, CO 80498-2656
JHMoss@Earthlink.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Mac Intyre
To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Philmont]: One Giant Leap
If you are going to have to get new stoves, get the MSR Dragonfly. They will work at any altitude and will simmer. They do cost more than a Whisperlite, most of what I've seen is 99.95. Be sure to ask for you 10% Scout discount. There is a guy that will sell them for about 80ish in Philly at Just Camping, # 888 301 8368, ask for Mike, he is the owner.
----- Original Message -----
From: smith.13@nd.edu
To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
Sent: Thursday, 06 February, 2003 08:08
Subject: Re: [Philmont]: One Giant Leap
Alan and others,
I am one of those scoutmasters who was never a scouts as a youth. So I do not know what scouts really used to do. From the stories I heard, there was a wide range of skills and styles years ago as there are today. I think our troop had done well at times when we pushed them. They may do dutch oven cooking, different types of pastas, a variety of foil dinners, and hot sandwiches or tacos for lunch. On the other end, if we let them go, they may do only bacon for breakfast, or just grilled cheese for dinner, or donuts every morning.
There is one man I work with (in his late 40's) who claims that his patrol ate Spaghetti-O's for dinner every campout for 3 years. So what has changed? :)
I think that troops that do backpacking should introduce some types of back country cooking early so crew are not faced with a brand new type of cooking just before they hit the trail. We do few backpacking trips and the former SM who was going to lend us stoves passed away and the stoves can not be found. We now have to buy stoves and start training on cooking over the next 5 months. We are behind in trail cooking skills. Since we have a 50 miler for the non-Philmont crew scheduled, we need to train everyone and do it quickly. (5 months is quickly in my book. I am a slow learner.)
At 2/6/2003 07:23 AM, you wrote:
Does anyone else find that there is a whole lot less cooking in scouting today than there used to be? With high tech stoves and fire bans and packaged food so readily available, it seems that learning to cook in scouting is becoming a lost art. My cooking training and even more importantly, my pot and dishwashing training is a major asset in today's world.
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Roman J. Smith
Scoutmaster Troop 505
roman.j.smith.13@nd.edu
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