You ll need some special gear as well as new techniques.
Hanging stove for big wall climbs.
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.
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.
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.
Warm food coffee koolaid as long as you don t mind a little extra weight.
Big wall climbing is a guaranteed adventure.
The leader climbs up the first pitch free and or with aid trailing a second rope the haul line.
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.
I very much enjoy the benefits of a stove on the wall.
By mark synnott for alpine big wall climbing a stove is mandatory for melting snow.
A big wall is essentially a vertical expanse of rock which is too big to climb in a single day.
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.
A big wall climb is just an overgrown rock route but complicated by aid climbing and the need to haul a bag.
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.
Make sure the fuel container can be attached.
The canister stones are really great for the hanging stove concept.
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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.
Fireballs than a liquid fuel stove.
You should now have a bonafidi hanging stove ready to tackle any big wall or super alpine climb.
The basic procedure goes like this.
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.
I use a msr pocketrocket that i also use for alpine climbing.
