Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Winter Camping and Activities :: Tis the Season
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NotLight |
Where I'm seeing old grills on the side of the road with "free" signs attached. My understanding of the winter BWCA fire rules are, that you are basically supposed to make a fire on the lake (or, somewhere not in a designated campsite - meaning, on the lake). And then "dispose of the ashes". So I've been thinking of hauling along some kind of metal pan, ideally aluminum, on the sled. How do you deal with those rules? Or does everybody just hot tent (but you have to put those ashes somewhere, right? - per the rules?) Thanks. |
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Gman42 |
One year we did not have time to make anything so we gathered logs about 6 inches in diameter and laid them parallel next to each other to make a platform and had a fire on top. It actually worked better than it sounds. The morning after we spread the ashes in the snow in the woods (LNT). |
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Gadfly |
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NotLight |
I wonder if one of these 30 qt mixing bowls would work. Not super heavy, if you had a big enough bag or tarp to wrap it in, you could pack stuff inside it in the sled then I think and the bag would stop the soot. It's a little wide for the sled - but I could just bend it. |
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CrookedPaddler1 |
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Jaywalker |
Now days I hot tent. I bring a small metal shovel and can remove ashes and bury them in the snow some place out of the way. |
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NotLight |
Following up on this questionable fire bowl idea, I bought four items: Cheaper 20qt Mixing bowl (~1.5lbs) Heavier duty 20qt mixing bowl (2-3lbs?) Ikea tubular stainless trivet for a grill (will cut ends so they don't explode, ~0.5lb)) Storage bag (will use garbage bag as inner bag, this as outer) I'm thinking this is lighter and more reliable for melting snow than my little white gas stove. And I can then make a fire on the lake and easily haul the ashes into the brush when cold and dump them. Transport in the bag, and then I can pack inside the bowl once it is in the storage bag, so in that sense the bowls take up almost zero room. Not sure if the bowls will melt, split causing a horrific eye injury, release toxic chromium vapors when exposed to heat, etc. Also not sure if the heavier or superlight bowl is better. But I'll give it a try. |