RdHawg
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Why it's called an MSR FIREfly
So my Father-in-law and I went for a hike up to May Lake in Yosemite this weekend. Night one we stayed in the Backpacker's camp in the valley.
In the morning I used the Firefly on the picnic table to boil some water for our "mountain house" breakfast which I then transfered to my tealight stove to keep warm. I put some more water on to make hot chocolate - Then things got interesting.... The firefly went out.
I opened up my new windscreen to realize that all the heat it kept in caused the plastic nut that holds it to the fuel cylinder to melt. When it melted it allowed the stove to tilt not letting the gas go up into the stove instead it was hissing out the newly formed gap between the stove and cylinder. Remember that tealight stove? YEP.. WHOOFH! HOLY C### !!!!! My FIL cleared everything else off the table with one quick swoop and I flicked the Fire belching roman candle onto the ground. I tried pouring water on it but that was a joke. The guy from the next camp over started kicking dirt on it so I joined him and we were able to get it out that way. Fortunately the cylinder was almost empty to begin with so it quickly ran out of gas.
So I was pleasantly surprised to find Yosemite not only had stoves at their mountain store and I didn't need to mortgage the house to buy one. so we were still able to make May Lake that afternoon!
Sorry bout the cruddy photo. Too much adrenaline!
So my Father-in-law and I went for a hike up to May Lake in Yosemite this weekend. Night one we stayed in the Backpacker's camp in the valley.
In the morning I used the Firefly on the picnic table to boil some water for our "mountain house" breakfast which I then transfered to my tealight stove to keep warm. I put some more water on to make hot chocolate - Then things got interesting.... The firefly went out.
I opened up my new windscreen to realize that all the heat it kept in caused the plastic nut that holds it to the fuel cylinder to melt. When it melted it allowed the stove to tilt not letting the gas go up into the stove instead it was hissing out the newly formed gap between the stove and cylinder. Remember that tealight stove? YEP.. WHOOFH! HOLY C### !!!!! My FIL cleared everything else off the table with one quick swoop and I flicked the Fire belching roman candle onto the ground. I tried pouring water on it but that was a joke. The guy from the next camp over started kicking dirt on it so I joined him and we were able to get it out that way. Fortunately the cylinder was almost empty to begin with so it quickly ran out of gas.
So I was pleasantly surprised to find Yosemite not only had stoves at their mountain store and I didn't need to mortgage the house to buy one. so we were still able to make May Lake that afternoon!
Sorry bout the cruddy photo. Too much adrenaline!
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