Spent another day in the woods to take advantage of the unusual weather.

Here are some shots of a homemade windscreen and lid I was trying out for my Esbit and canteen cup setup. Nothing fancy, just cut from some aluminum flashing with a regular scissors. It worked great. I will tweak the lid to get it to look better. The metal is springy and it held on well to the rolled edges of the cup. I heated 10 oz of water (a little over half the canteen cup) to boiling at 40 degrees F with one Esbit tab with some tab left over. I think I could have heated a filled cup to boiling with one fuel tab.

The screen, stove, fuel tabs, and lid all nest together. The bottle is a 1 qt Nalgene canteen bottle.

The last picture is the spring where clean water is available. Its not a very good picture. I put my rucksack next to it for scale. The water is so clear, that the little pond looks dry in the photo. It looks like a little creek, but it is actually a hole in the rocks. The water squirts right out of it at the base of a 400 foot limestone bluff.

Very nice Byrd. We've been workng on homemade stoves around here this month and our next steps are windscreens and lids. Both make a big difference in boil time. Thanks for the inspiration!

Do you use pilars or something for the lid or are you going to make a handle of some sort? (I use my Leatherman as a pot lifter.)