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<blockquote data-quote="Litehiker" data-source="post: 1534854" data-attributes="member: 54178"><p>Yep, you are hunting high country and wake up one morning to see over a foot of snow outside your tent! No problem. You have enough warm clothes, knee high gaiters, fleece balaclava, etc.</p><p></p><p>You were smart enough to leave your butane canister stove at home and take your white gas stove for these cold temperatures.</p><p>But now you need to find a stable base in the snow to cook so you stomp down an area and know it will be very solid when you return to cook dinner. (You <u>do</u> have a cold breakfast to save time in the morning, right?)</p><p></p><p>So you return and realize a hot stove will melt and it will sink into the snow, always <em>unevenly. </em>dumping your pot of food or heating water into the snow. So you place a platform of sticks beneath it and try to get your stove level - and try yet again. </p><p></p><p>So next time bring a stove platform. You can set it right on compacted snow.</p><p>It's made from a circular piece of 1/16" exterior plywood sprayed with a few coats of silver high temp engine paint. Make this circle as small as possible to save weight. Then you attach three* door screen retaining tabs with aluminum bolts, washers and nuts to the base to hold your stove legs in place. (Do <em>not</em> skip this step.) </p><p>*Most stoves have 3 legs for stability on uneven ground, like a 3 legged milking stool.</p><p></p><p>This plywood base is light but fast to set up and effective plus making your stove very stable. If you use silver paint on the platform it will reflect some heat back up and you can also set a foil MSR circular windscreen on it. The windscreen saves fuel, of which every ounce had to be carried in on your back.</p><p></p><p>Eric B.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Litehiker, post: 1534854, member: 54178"] Yep, you are hunting high country and wake up one morning to see over a foot of snow outside your tent! No problem. You have enough warm clothes, knee high gaiters, fleece balaclava, etc. You were smart enough to leave your butane canister stove at home and take your white gas stove for these cold temperatures. But now you need to find a stable base in the snow to cook so you stomp down an area and know it will be very solid when you return to cook dinner. (You [U]do[/U] have a cold breakfast to save time in the morning, right?) So you return and realize a hot stove will melt and it will sink into the snow, always [I]unevenly. [/I]dumping your pot of food or heating water into the snow. So you place a platform of sticks beneath it and try to get your stove level - and try yet again. So next time bring a stove platform. You can set it right on compacted snow. It's made from a circular piece of 1/16" exterior plywood sprayed with a few coats of silver high temp engine paint. Make this circle as small as possible to save weight. Then you attach three* door screen retaining tabs with aluminum bolts, washers and nuts to the base to hold your stove legs in place. (Do [I]not[/I] skip this step.) *Most stoves have 3 legs for stability on uneven ground, like a 3 legged milking stool. This plywood base is light but fast to set up and effective plus making your stove very stable. If you use silver paint on the platform it will reflect some heat back up and you can also set a foil MSR circular windscreen on it. The windscreen saves fuel, of which every ounce had to be carried in on your back. Eric B. [/QUOTE]
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