Overnighter to Silver Lake in the Buckhorn Wilderness via the Mt. Townsend Trail. Also a stroll to the top of Silver Lake Peak. Reloaded after editing the video so that the music timing matched the footage better. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUHO3OG_D-c

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I’ve had a lot of trouble keeping a slow burn with this stove. Last winter, I did discovery something helpful just by chance. I had been burning through maple and madrone much faster than I anticipated — and burned very hot. No slow burn at all. Why wouldn’t good hardwood last in this stove and why couldn’t I get a slow burn going?I had cut the pieces small enough to dry thoroughly and it burned really well. Too well. I then one day threw in a large piece of lodgepole pine from Montana (very seasoned and dry) and noticed that it lasted longer than the same amount (volume wise) of madrone. What I concluded was that to achieve a slow burn in these stoves, it is critical that you don’t have too much surface area per unit of volume. In this video, I have a large piece of maple that is burning just about right and not too fast. It has a lot of volume, but the reduced surface area means that not all of that volume can burn all at once. So it burns slower and last longer, but burns hot enough that the manifold can still function to burn the gasified wood like it is supposed to. BYW, this is with the stove completely damped down. These stoves are designed to not allow completely cutting off the air flow. Some EPA requirements from what I’ve read. They ought to redesign some sort of emergency way to cut it off in case of chimney fire, but maybe they are banking on the fact that if you can’t dampen the fire too much, you won’t build up creosote. Who knows? But if a chimney fire does occur, you’ll have to throw water in the stove. There will simply be too much airflow to stop it otherwise. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMu0Vs9RQ8

Wanted to see how close I could get to Toandos State Park in half an hour from Misery Point in Seabeck. This video was taken after my 30 minute timer went off and I had to turn around. The kayak is a Swell Watercraft Scupper 14. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ut2zOHlrd4