Thursday 19 May 2016

Camp stoves and a blast from the past

Since this is really our first year doing back country hiking trips (we've typically done canoe trips as a group), we've had to buy a lot of different equipment. My parents had mentioned they had a tiny camp stove we could use for the trip to help us out. We go to pick it up, and it's actually from 1986 and quite big for a back country stove. It has a little base that you fill with fuel and pump to get the fuel up to the burner, super retro, but kind of cool.

Anyways, we decided it'd be too heavy when added with all of our other gear, and that we just wanted a little burner to screw onto a butane/propane canister. We picked one up yesterday at SAIL so we could finally cross camp stove off our list, and as we get in the car to head to my parents to return theirs, we realize that it's the same stove! Just 30 years later. How hilarious is that? It's super cool to see how camping gear has changed over the past 30 years, we've definitely gone minimalist since the 80's.

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