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What's Your Favorite Pipe for Backpacking or Camping?
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For what I call camping, either a Morgan Bones or MM Legend or Washington. Featherweight, works with almost anything you pack in them, and are priced for a more rugged adventure. For what Mrs. Rookie calls camping, a big Danish freehand.
Used to do a lot of backpacking and cycle touring with an old pipe smoking mate of mine in Scotland. Back then I used to carry and smoke an Alco. Old Alex always carried two pipes just in case he lost one along the way. Falcons usually but on the odd ocassion he also carried a Peterson standard. Condor was both our choice of baccy.
I'll second the Stanwell. Inexpensive & acrylic stems. I get rusticated, easy to hold onto if cold/wet. And big bowl for long smokes. I take two, one for Virginias & one for Burleys.
Those Morgan Bones look good too, affordable & sturdy. I just like briar...
Those Morgan Bones look good too, affordable & sturdy. I just like briar...
Take it from someone who just ran over a cob with a several ton machine; you want to use cobs for situations that may result in harm to the pipe. I'd much rather lose a ten dollar jobbie in the woods than the sacred relic that is my Carlo Duca Lumberman. That being said, sometimes it's good to have a trusty briar. I remember my first encounter with Mac Baren HH Latakia Flake took place on the banks of the Bow River with a forty dollar Billiard. It ranks right up there with the time I drove my Mustang all along the Sunshine Coast on Vancouver Island, though at that time I was not a pipe smoker.
I take my best smokers camping, fishing, hiking..... The outdoors is my favorite place to exist so why would I compromise my smoke by taking a "throwaway"? I have a small, shockproof container that I use for my pipe carry.
Great question! I keep a pipe pouch in my travel backpack with two pipes, tobacco, cleaners, pipe too, etc.
The pipes inside have been a MM Country Gentleman and an unmarked briar billiard for years now. Easily replaceable if damaged or dropped on the trail!
The pipes inside have been a MM Country Gentleman and an unmarked briar billiard for years now. Easily replaceable if damaged or dropped on the trail!
Another option not yet mentioned here...a Brylon pipe such as Yellow Bole. If you're OK with the way they smoke, they are virtually indestructible.
This unmarked estate Lovat has become my hiking pipe. Excellent drilling and sweet aged briar. I think I got lucky on the eBay find.
Bones One is my go to for backpacking. No stem to worry about breaking and for its size smokes surprisingly well.
I saw those and also thought about these. The ability to trade stems is interesting. Short for walking, long for campfires.
The right pipe for outdoor activities is certainly a cob. They come in all sorts of weights and sizes.
For hiking or backpacking or camping I'd go with the lightweight MM Tom Sawyer model. It's a natural or unfinished small bowl short stemmed cob. Be sure you break it in a bit more slowly than a polished cob.
For hiking or backpacking or camping I'd go with the lightweight MM Tom Sawyer model. It's a natural or unfinished small bowl short stemmed cob. Be sure you break it in a bit more slowly than a polished cob.
If you have to choose in a hurry, MM cobs that aren't your treasures are probably a safe choice. Briars that were moderately priced and smoke well are a good choice. I'd think long and hard before taking along any pipe that was higher priced or has special features or emotional meaning to you. I'm attached to most of my pipes, but some I could lose without too much anguish. MM cobs are generally good smokers and will do the job if you have to choose in a hurry. If you take along something that you prize, and you lose it, you might idolize that pipe for the rest of your life. Pipes are that way.
The Nording Eriksen Keystone would be an option at $30 with briar bowl & 'unbreakable' (like the combs!) stem:
Nording Eriksen Keystone Tobacco Pipe - TobaccoPipes.com
If you got an orange stem it would do for hunting! Easy to find if dropped.
I have one I've never smoked, kinda forgot about it.
Nording Eriksen Keystone Tobacco Pipe - TobaccoPipes.com
If you got an orange stem it would do for hunting! Easy to find if dropped.
I have one I've never smoked, kinda forgot about it.
I agree. Just because it is a cob doesn't mean it is not valued. My little Carolina Gent is a good example of a pipe I value more than some of my estate briars.