ya know, the thing with the fire container in AB is to contain and remove the ashes (per a ranger) so a Sputnik with holes may not be exactly the thing that rangers would like to see..... (don't kill the messenger, please)
Eric, Eric, Eric,
You sometimes are just toooo much. You've never seen it (unless you were paying attention at Pismo Beach) and you really have no idea as to how well it works.
I've used it in AB, Pismo Beach and throughout DV. I have brought out all the ash from all trips except Pismo where we buried it unlike mose asshats at Pismo that leave the ashes on top of the sand! What little ash that does fall out the bottom, is easily shoveled into the bag I dump the ashes into. Before you go off on the ashes melting through the bag, I'll tell you that's the beauty of those 'holes' you so dislike. Sputnik burns it's fuel so thoroughly because of those little holes and the air flow they provide that there is very little ash left, and what there is is stone cold by morning (unless of course the Brokeback Boys from Napa stay up all night trying to stay warm - inside DV joke!).
Don't stick your foot in your mouth unless you really enjoy the taste!
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So of course I tell him that we will join him. So we arrive at Lower Coyote around 1am and decide to drive in A LITTLE and set up camp away from everything. Well we kept passing campers and decided to just keep going. He has twenty something lights on his rig and I just followed. Before we knew we were at the top, found an area to set up camp, and proceeded to drink beer around a propane lantern until time to cook breakfast and head down to meet everyone else. It was a blast.
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