Cooking some ribeye steaks on the Tipi Blaze Stove. Get your pan sizzling hot, then sear your meat and turn it periodically to keep it from burning until done to suit your taste. You can''t beat the taste of a steak cooked on a Tipi Blaze Stove!

The mountains around the Chattooga River receive more rainfall per year than most any place in the US, except perhaps for the Olympic Penninsula of Washington. Highlands, NC averages 96"/year. This year has been unusually moist at the Chattooga with 93". Yet even with all this rain, there is no problem starting a fire and cooking, all with fuel you can pick up in the woods.