Hanging Stove For Big Wall Climbs

The canister stones are really great for the hanging stove concept.

Hanging stove for big wall climbs.

Food water and other gear is taken up in a haul bag and nights are spent sleeping on a portaledge or natural rock ledge thousands of feet off the ground. Fireballs than a liquid fuel stove. Big wall climbing is a guaranteed adventure. A word of warning though the windshield can get very hot with this type of stove so be careful when first using it plus remember to keep an eye on both the suspension and the burner itself to make sure everything is secure after all you don t.

At a certain point when you re climbing long routes with your buddy peeing is going to happen and it doesn t need to be a big deal. Warm food coffee koolaid as long as you don t mind a little extra weight. A butane canister hanging stove is the way to go for almost all domestic wall climbing trips as it is easier to maintain and operate and less prone to accidents read. You ll need some special gear as well as new techniques.

A big wall climb is just an overgrown rock route but complicated by aid climbing and the need to haul a bag. The leader climbs up the first pitch free and or with aid trailing a second rope the haul line. To hang such a stove you need a large pot big enough to contain the burner element and pot supports of your stove with enough space to hold a cooking pot too drill hacksaw or file a hole in the center of the large pot s base that accepts the stove burner neck. I very much enjoy the benefits of a stove on the wall.

Pictures did not load. Since that time i ve used a bibler hanging stove a markill hanging pot set with a number of different cartridge stove burners and a markill hanging pot set designed to work with the coleman peak1. The basic procedure goes like this. This was a somewhat ineffectual tippy and scary system which i only used once.

I use a msr pocketrocket that i also use for alpine climbing. By mark synnott for alpine big wall climbing a stove is mandatory for melting snow. If you re in a hanging belay thanks to the miracle of elastic you can just pull the back of your pants down your harness legloop elastics will get out of the way and you can be done with it in about 25. You should now have a bonafidi hanging stove ready to tackle any big wall or super alpine climb.

A big wall is essentially a vertical expanse of rock which is too big to climb in a single day. I recommend the heat it for big wallers craving hot chow as well as alpine climbers and mountaineers looking to solve the age old problems of increasing stove performance in cold weather and wind and minimizing stove danger when you are forced to cook in your tent s vestibule.