Windy Day - Bad Smoke

[BROBS]

God created fingers on our hands for this specific reason. If you don't believe in God, it was the pinochle of our evolutionary achievement. So, use your fingers.

 

[The Clay King]

Been very wild, wet and windy here today - makes lighting the pipe challenging - I got it lit in the end!

 

[bullet08]

By the time I noticed it, couldn't edit x)

 

[BROBS]

By the time I noticed it, couldn't edit x)

haha I knew what you meant just messing around. I had to google to even see if that was how you spelled the card game haha

 

[jpmcwjr]

The guy who's on it is a card.....

 

[JPremo]

How to handle windy day smoking?

With this!

Close the cap and you're good to go no matter the weather!

But failing finding one of these I gotta agree with the wind cap recommendations.

 

[coming to_falling too]

With this!

Close the cap and you're good to go no matter the weather!

But failing finding one of these I gotta agree with the wind cap recommendations.

And it doubles as a salt/pepper shaker! Cool pipe though

 

[saltedplug]

When I started, smoking outdoors appealed. But that soon changed.

 

[greeneyes]

I began smoking outside when my wife became pregnant, almost four and a half years ago. Before that smoking was "house rules." I enjoy the outdoors but I hate needing to be outside to smoke. Everything about it is an inconvenience. Switching from one uncomfortable location to the next. A wealth of rich detail and subtlety in your tobaccos that you never experience because the wind instantly dissipates it. We now have an enclosed varanda, hidden from view, where no one either knows or cares that I smoke and it is my refuge and the balm of my weary days. If it had a toilet I'd never leave.

 

[johng99]

I have been smoking for 50 years in one form or another. I found that i prefer to smoke outside, as I like being outdoors. And where i live now (Mohave Desert) it is almost always windy and I have had to learn to adapt. These days I make it work on all but the most windy days and find it enjoyable. The only downside I experience is the dark edges on some pipes from the lighter. I minimize it but it does happen. I don't fret about it - I have some nice pipes (several Barlings, etc) but they are not collectors pipes, so I just smoke 'em.

 

[johng99]

I'll need to work on this technique. I tried cupping my hands around the bowl to create a wind barrier and that helped a little but not totally. I think by that point the damage had been done already.

This is what I do, and with practice it works.