^and we love the Brits for putting up with our nonsense!^

Filling up my beloved SVEA123 backpacking stove my big brother gave me 40 plus years ago, the 64 year old design works extremely well every time!
I've gotten hundreds of uses from it.

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The fact I'm filling it back up can only mean one thing... adventure time draws near!
Planning a Bike/Hike up in (where else) the North Cascades with my Son, his best buddy and maybe a BIL this weekend.


Here it is delivering another batch of hot H2o for coffee and breakfast about a week ago. It makes the best "helicopter at full rip" sound whilst running

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Hey Skip,

That’s fantastic. I have that exact same stove and wouldn’t replace it for the world. Got it in the early 80’s when my dad, brother and I were doing the BP thing. Great memories hitting the Sierras, coast, Grand Canyon, etc. Truly a timeless and efficient design. I see that you have the upper sleeve for yours, I’m searching for one for ours. I have the “cook kit” that I use and store it in but the smaller sleeve would be great for quick trips.

Worked it’s way around our Boy Scout trips and would get everyone’s attention with the distinct burner roar.

Have a great trip, I’m envious!! Your trip makes more and adds to your great trip permit pics in your targa back on the 22nd.

Cheers

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Thank Bugstrider, nice selfie!

They are very simple and effective plus, they perform very well at higher elevations unlike propane or blended fuels stoves do.
I have polished the brass on it a few times, looks like new for about a month and goes right back to tarnished patina.

I believe Optimus still sells the the same basic design, replacement covers may still be out there too.

I have a case of 1950's tech matching up with 2000's tech- quite to my surprise and joy a .8 liter Jetboil slides right down over the stove with one paper towel as a liner.
I did have to break out my Dremel to allow the jetboil to seat on the SVEA correctly... this stove has always boiled water quickly and now with the Jetboil (no affiliation) its even better.

Nested:
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De-nested glam shot last Fall.
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I like it! I will try to find a sleeve and cup like yours. I already have the jetboil but wasn’t smart enough to put two and two together[emoji849]. When I got mine, it just came in a box without the other stuff so I picked up the cook kit.
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The good part is that I have yet to find a wind speed that has prevented the stove to run. That said, I haven’t encountered gail force winds on the tundra.....yet. It all packs down into itself so it is quit compact but not as tidy as your set-up.

I was surprised to see that I can still get these stoves new and parts kits are available. Plenty on eBay too, just haven’t seen to many individual pieces listed.

Cheers
Bugs


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Little tree frog hanging out in one of my bromeliads.......

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Hey Baz,

That is a fantastic macro shot. What did you use for that.

Truly Nat Geo quality

Cheers


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Thanks, Bugs! Just a cheap Canon Powershot point and shoot. I used the Macro mode, as you mentioned - along with the flash set to auto.

Just got lucky with that one. You can't go wrong shooting animals and/or plants.

Purple Crinum Lily bloom from this morning:
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Home on the range last Friday.

Nice!! I have a dated Canon G9 in a Canon underwater housing with a flash defuser. I was pleasantly surprised at some of the underwater pics it produced while scuba diving.

I will see if I can dig a few up.

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Taken yesterday on my way to work. A conga line of emergency equipment clogged up our road so it never a good thing when they roll code past our house. Usually means exactly what I expected to find. A person in a C-172 didn’t quite make final...[emoji51]

Parked it in a bunch of trees east of “23”. But hey, they walked away without injury. A win win in regards to emergency landings. Wasn’t a good thing for the region, when I rolled into work I was told a C-152 lost its engine and made an emergency landing at the Auburn Airport. Yikes!!!!


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Back from my 2nd overnight camping trip so far this year, very, very nice in many ways!
No snow encountered until we were 80 yards from the campsite... the patch was about basketball sized, minimal threat of slowing our progress.

Upper 50's and sunny, low 40's at night, lots of stars until light cloud cover after 10 pm.

My favorite hiking partner and Son
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The old moi
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100' of H20 missing in preparation for high mountain run off
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Here's what happens if you don't let a SVEA123 warm up enough before opening the main valve
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Staying warm, keeping critters away-ish
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Treasure hunting the lake bottom
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Morning campsite view
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Breaking camp
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Dock awaiting snow melt refill & summer boat traffic
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We only saw a four other people on the hike in, no one else was crazy enough to hike to a sometimes island and spend the night this early in the year.

The last time my Son and I were there was 5 years ago, we missed being in the middle of the horrendous Oso slide by maybe 30 minutes, someone was watching out for us that day!

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Crikey! 30 minutes?!?!?!?

Yeah, talk about a guardian angle
Great pics too!
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From yesterday....driving around since we had good weather.

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Drove the youngest son’s family possessions to their new place in AZ using my parents diesel and stock trailer. Pop rode shotgun.
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Long day and drive, finishing up with unloading and transferring it all into a storage unit. running on hour 31 right now and man, am I ever punch drunk.
Working the 1730-0300 shift at work helped the overnight drive but it was still a ball buster run at 60 mph, especially since it’s been a long time since that.

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Pulling the stock trailer up the grapevine felt like Death Race 2000, with me being in the middle of all the big rig crowd jockeying for positions in the far right lanes. Actually felt more like I had gone on a simple mountain bike ride and then finding myself accidentally in the middle of the Amgen Tour. An amateur in the big boy crowd.[emoji51] Glade we timed it so that it was a pull around midnight up the vine and through the LA basin during the cover of darkness, except for all of the closures due to freeway repairs being performed.

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Get to head home tomorrow morning. A quick turnaround trip.

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Was at my mechanic's place the other day and he has one of these there.....very cool!

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