Gallery 3: Gathering Steam

Robert Hudson at Skye ridge on a bivi just below the Inaccessible Pinnacle. Skye ridge is the only real alpine ridge in the UK. Robert notes: "The cone worked faultlessly and has on every other use previously and since". :-)

Ben Wood submitted this shot of his campsite....with his Ti-Tri sneaking into the picture on the right!

Jane Johnson in Minnesota taking her system out for for it's first spin! :-)

Alan Dixon sent along this picture of his 1.3 Sidewinder in use on his Utah Canyon Trip (Buckskin/Paria)

Ray Estrella playing with his new Sidewinder at Waboose Lake!

Nick Bramhall fires up his Sidewinder beside Loch Einich during his traverse of Braeriach in Scotland. Read his trip report

Steve Quinne cooking away at 11,000 ft with his Ti-Tri and esbit!

James Lindsay just off of the JMT sent us this note: "I just wanted to thank you. My caldera cone was one of my most beloved pieces of gear on the John Muir Trail this summer. Please keep making awesome lightweight products." Thanks James! :-)

David Lintern's Sidewinder which accompanied him the complete length of the Pyrenean mountain range over the past 2 months on his charity hike. Distance around 900km with approx 40-50km of ascent/descent. Charity website: http://www.charitygiving.co.uk/davidlintern

David Lintern also figured out how to get better audio performance from his iPhone using the caldera cone!

Klaus Manhart putting his Caldera Keg to the test at 6000 feet (1840 meters) on top of Mount Meßnerin in Styria Austria!

This shot is of Warren Greer's camp at Lower Relief Valley in the Immigrant Wilderness where he's using his Caldera Cone Keg-H in Esbit mode. He got full boils with approximately half a tab of Esbit!

VIDEO of Mike MacFerrin and his 18 day traverse from from Sitka to Port Alexander across the South Baranof Island (in the northern Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle), with his Ti-Tri for companionship. Here's a video from Driftwood Bay.

Jim Hudson trying his cone on a windy cliff in Pembrokeshire South Wales. Worked perfectly, tea made in minutes.

Jim Hudson again brewing tea (yes its true Brits brew tea anywhere!) on the summit of Sulvin in Scotland's North West.

Even kangaroos like the Caldera Cone! :-) See this and other interesting information on Kerri Larkin's Backpack Gear Test report

The simple and bullet proof Ti-Tri saved Rod Swanson and his scout troop when the connectors to their Colman propane stoves didn't make the trip! :-)

Glen Van Peski on a trip with Will Rietveld to Columbine Lake, 12,200’ in the Weminuche Wilderness, Colorado using their Caldera Kegs. Check out the Mountain Goat on the left hand side of the picture!

Will Rietveld on a trip with Glen Van Peski to Columbine Lake, 12,200’ in the Weminuche Wilderness, Colorado using their Caldera Kegs. Will didn't get a Mountain Goat in his dining room!

Don Meredith using his titanium fissure cone for the trapper mug to make some miso & ramen in the Grayson Highlands.

Tyson Marshall on a recent trip in Kaua'i, used his Caldera Sidewinder setup to cook tortillas on his Titanium Floor! With a little oil drizzled over the tortillas, and then cooked on the titanium floor, it is reported that the tortillas made for a great combo with a rice and jerk chicken freezer bag meal!

Anatol Jasiutyn took this shot of his Keg-H in the Zillertal Alps in South Tyrol/Italy with the Hochfernerspitze Mountain in background (Elevation 3,463 m/11,362 ft)

Keith Foskett cooking up wild mussles in Scotland!

Bill Miller giving his Sidewinder a workout on his 4/29 trip to Manzana Narrows in the San Rafael Wilderness, CA. Read his ENTIRE REPORT HERE

John Roan shares a picture of his Sidewinder in Kolob Canyons, Zion National Park, Utah!

Don Meredith demonstrates his entire Ti-Tri cooking setup including mug being packed into his Caddy! His writeup may be found HERE

Reggie Garrett cooking chili in his Keg-H on the Ouchita Trail in western Arkansas

Reggie Garrett putting his Keg-H to use in a trail shelter....

David Watt and his Ti-Tri above Loch Morar in the North West Highlands of Scottland with views out over to the isle of Skye, and approaching hail shower, just before sunset.

John Silva showing off his Sidewinder Inferno on a Search & Rescue snow camping training trip at about the 7,000 foot elevation in the Sierras in the eastern part of Amador County.

John Silva again....on his Sidewinder: "The Inferno Sidewinder cooking system is ingenious in its simplicity and delivers outstanding results in an incredibly short period of time. My previous cooking systems (MSR pocket rocket & whisperlite) will never again leave my equipment cache; however, my Inferno system will go everywhere with me..."

David Watt's MSR Kettle Ti-Tri in action amongst the ancient Caledonian pines in the Cairngorms National Park Scotland. -8C and windy.

Lou Castle uses his prototype simmer ring and Sidewinder several times a week, even if he's not in the bushes! Here he's fixing a huge blueberry muffin for breakfast.

Ray Estrella at Voyageurs National Park for three days backpacking fires up his Keg-F for hot cider. Here it is at the end of February, 4:15 pm at Agnes Lake....it is -2 F!!!

woopieslings provides this excellent youtube demo of our Fissure system and his Snow Peak Mini Solo.

John Roan did this great analysis of the real weight cost of various Caldera systems over time. Check it out!

JJ Mathes' at Black Mtn, NY with his TiTri and inferno in wood mode using an MLD 850ml during a 500 mile AT section hike using wood every night except 3-4 when it was pouring rain. On those nights it was the GramCracker with Esbit. JJ says: "GREAT SYSTEM!"

John Roan camping next to the Colorado River, a few miles south of the Hoover Dam near Arizona Hot Springs. The .6L Sidewinder and the Ti-Tri Keg-H side by side with his Zpacks Hexamid Twin and the river in the background.

Great Ti-Tri article by Don Meredith...shows a number of different rigs he has plus how to modify your 12-10 stove for better packability!

Ray Estrella using his Keg F near Anaway Lake on the North Country Trail in February. The temp during use was about 18 F.

JJ Mathes fires up his Sidewinder and Evernew 600ml pot on a cold windy night in Georgia.

Gregory Stein sends us this picture of his Sidewinder on top of Tavor mountain in Galilee.....site of Transfiguration of Jesus.

Jace "Minor" Mullen sends this picture from just outside Shasta City and notes: "Thanks for making of best cooking system in the backpacking world!"

Edgardo Tenreiro sent along this shot from the Nachez Trace showing off his Caldera Keg in action!

Edgardo Tenreiro sent along this shot from Utah showing off his sidewinder in action!

JJ Mathes/Jermm continues to use the fashionable Caldera Cone as hiking headwear at the NEW blog location found here: jermmsoutside.com :-)

Robert (MedicineMan) Moore sent this picture of his split cone system from Glacier Bay....and this note: "Used the Caldera Cone in 5 national parks from cooking dinner to heating drinks to warm up. Love my cones!"

Elizabeth Thomas sends in another picture from the Colorado Trail!

James Bode sends in this picture of him enjoying his Keg-F on the trail! :-)

Kirk Nichols sends along these pictures of his students at a NOLS Lightweight course to the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming.

Record holder Hans Florine with his Keg-F scrambling walls in Yosemite. Hans notes: "OK, I didn't take this Trail Designs stove on the 2 hour 37 minute and 5 second ascent of The Nose. But I love Trail Designs stoves for just about all my other light and fast adventures."

Elizabeth Thomas with her Keg-F system on the Colorado Trail. She notes: "I'm absolutely loving it--I've got some really long hauls between resupply points and the whole using only 15 mL of Heet to get a 2 cup boil thing is a lifesaver, especially hiking so late in season when all the tiny stores in these resupply towns are out of Heet!"

Carol Moses making cornbread with esbit and her Ti-Tri in the Sierra Nevada mountains at Marie Lake.

Duane Hall and his green buddy making dinner with his Classic Ti-Tri & Inferno.... still going strong after a full summer's backpacking. Duane notes that it's "a fine, and versatile piece of kit". Taken at Seal Cove beach, Cape Chignecto Provincial Park, Nova Scotia.

Hans Florine, who holds the Speed Climb World Record for climbing The Nose of Yosemite’s El Capitan in 2:23:46 notes....."I didn't take a stove up The Nose when I climbed it in under two and a half hours, but when I'm down in camp it's gotta be a Trail Designs System."

Tom Clark and his Caldera at Sawyer Bar

Tom Clark cooking dinner with his son on their Caldera!

Tom Clark at his campsite at Soap Creek

Doug Ide heating up morning coffee water at Lower Honeymoon Lake in the Sierras using esbit and his Ti-Tri for a RutaLocura 450 ti pot.

September 2012 issue of TGO magazine features a review of the MLD Trailstar.....however front and center in the picture is a Sidewinder Ti-Tri....very cool :-)

Paul Cronshaw on his PCT section hike from Lake Tahoe to Ashland reports that: "Still in my sleeping bag, I used it every day, with an esbit to heat water for my oatmeal breakfast; at dinner I used biomass twigs to prepare meals. I loved the way it left a zero ash footprint, unlike many of the hideous fire pits. A great stove for the PCT!"

MadMike's trusty Caldera stove waiting to be used for one of 50+ faultless times on a 2 month Appalachian Trail backpacking trip

PCT Thru-Hiker "Blackout" enjoying some Muir Hut magic with her Classic Ti-Tri

Keith Foskett writes: "The Caldera Cone system by Trail Designs has been around for a while but far from being threatened by other newer designs, it still holds its ground and it's the other manufacturers still trying to make up the ground and come up with something as brilliant. It ticks all the right boxes for a backpacking stove: it's light, compact, beautifully simple, durable, efficient and relatively cheap."

Nathan Stuart sends this picture in from Barrington Tops "down under" in early July. Morning coffee under the hammock tarp @ -5°C. We forget how cold it is in the southern hemisphere in July! :-)

Glan Van Peski and Will Reitvelt cooking cutthroat trout in their KegH using esbit at Trinity Lake at the head of Stormy Gulch, Weminuche Wilderness, Colorado.

Oliver Kaltenbrunner posted this killer picture of his Caldera Cone cooking breakfast @ 11,000ft.

Check out sectionhiker's backpacking stove review where he notes
"The best alcohol stove/windscreen system I've used so far is the Trail Designs Caldera Cone, which burns very efficiently."

Interesting shots of a Ti-Tri in use in what looks like the Alps here:
http://www.legkohod.com/reports/evr_2.shtml
Sorry...don't speak Russian, but here's what it says:Пришли к выводу, что огонь в печке Ti-Tri горит лучше, чем в Bush Buddy, и на ней можно быстрее вскипятить воду. Наверное, это связано, прежде всего, с бóльшим объёмом печки. Больше дров помещается, и, следовательно, легче поддерживать стабильное горение. Благодаря широкому основанию печка также стоит на земле более устойчиво, а высокие стенки лучше направляют поток тепла именно ко днищу котла. Однако каждая печка рассчитана на определённую модель котелка. Как видно, у ребят диаметр котелка не совпадает с диаметром печки, из-за чего он стоит неустойчиво.

Interesting shots of a Ti-Tri in use in what looks like the Alps here:
http://www.legkohod.com/reports/evr_2.shtmlSorry...don't speak Russian, but here's what it says: Кто же откажется от бесплатного кипятка? Юра и Ярослав взяли в поход дровяную печку Titanium Ti-Tri от фирмы Trail Designs. Ночью выпала обильная роса. Неподалёку нашли памятник некоему погибшему в 1999 году Дмитрию Бабенко из Беларуси.

"I can clearly see that the Trail Designs Guys have been in the Game for awhile. The design and products used are seamless."
Barefoot Jake's June 2012 Sidewinder Review

Here are a couple shots from Doug Ford working out his Ti-Tri Inferno on the Big Island of Hawaii!

Duane Hall just upgraded his Ti-Tri with an Inferno and sent along these pictures of it in action. Duane notes: "I am delighted with the efficiency of this piece of kit. I liked the Tri-Ti in wood burning mode before; this is better! I didn't time this .9 litre pot of water, but it was fast."

ADZPCTKO 2012....Lee grilling dinner on his Ti-Tri

ADZPCTKO 2012.....Grilling dinner on a Ti-Tri!

ADZPCTKO 2012.....Russ explaining the cone to some hikers

ADZPCTKO 2012.....here's the crowd around our display!

ADZPCTKO 2012.....Russ and Lee manning the booth.

Chris Townsend, TGO's gear editor and long-distance expert, writes a nice article in the Spring 2012 TGO issue (page 68) on the joys of wood fires while camping. That's him pictured with his Sidewinder!

JJ Mathes has done some pretty clever cartoon work using our cone as fashion! :-)

Mikey Floyd sent in this picture of his campsite and his Open Country 2qt Sidewinder....noting "GREAT Cooker!"

April 2012, pg 88, TGO magazine did an article on living in a tent in story weather....featuring a Caldera Cone front and center! :-)

March 2012, pg 128, TGO Magazine's Terry Abraham did an article called "Ancient hills and new technology".....mostly about electronic communication....but it's also nice to see a Caldera Cone in the picture with that kind of subject. :-)

Hikin' Jim shows you how to cook an omelet with a Ti-Tri!

Axel Johnson showing off his Trangia Mini Caldera. He notes that the standard Trangia was disappointing out of the box but "You guys nailed it on designing a cone for it!"

Lee shows off his Ti-Tri for the GGG IV gathering at Henry Coe State Park!

Manfred Kopisch and family on their JMT adventure :-)

Manfred Kopisch doing an impromptu demo of his Caldera Keg near Reds Meadow during his JMT trek!

Atsushi Togami running his Classic Ti-Tri on Mt. Tonodake where the summit temperature was -7 ?. He notes that "The stove was burning very well....and is very fun :-) Thank you for your wonderful product!"

Bob Shaver testing out Trail Design's new Simmer Ring as he bakes perfect biscuits on his Ti-Tri!

Glen Lewis putting his Ti-Tri and SP1400 to the test!

"I think this triple fuel system is so darned useful that I really do consider it the ultimate lightweight stove system for mixed fuel stoving."
Hikin' Jim reviews the Sidewinder

"....my pick for an alcohol stove, a complete system, the Caldera Cone......for my money, the Caldera Cone ultralight stove system is a dang good one."
Hikin' Jim - reviews the Caldera Cone

"It really works much better for me as a cooking system than my old Trangia system did and I can see it replacing my MSR Superfly as my goto stove."
Aushiker reviews the EV900 Sidewinder

Mitsuteru Ozaki (jackieboyslim) working his Vari-Vent windscreen in Yatsugatake. Check out his blog and other pictures here

Matthew Harvey stopping for coffee and porridge during his 3 day, 270 mile bike pack trip to Aberdyfi in the UK. :-)