Gallery 1: The Early Days

Trail Days '06 - Caldera ConesTMas fashion!

Russ and Lee at Trail Days '06.

Booth at Trail Days '06.

Russ out hiking the JMT - August '06.

Caldera System fighting off the rain on Baldface Mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Saturday July 22nd, 2006 at the South Baldface Shelter. Thanks for the pictures David!! (a.k.a. "Tinker").

Testing prototype cones on the JMT.

Kevin Sawchuck skiing Yosemite between Christmas and New Years

Kevin Sawchuck trying out a prototype Ti-Tri in the Desolation Wilderness early 2008

Judo completes the AT!!!! We're just happy to be along for the ride :-) Congratulations!

Judo shows off her Caldera Cone from her successful 2007 thru-hike of the AT at the PA-Ruck! (George Andrews basks in the reflected glory

Carol Crooker thinking "outside the cone" with her Corn Bread creations!

Carol Crooker thinking "outside the cone" with her Corn Bread creations!

Marta showing off her Caldera on the JMT - Summer 2007

Marta showing off her Caldera on the JMT - Summer 2007

Alan Dixon at 11,000 ft under his 8oz tarp testing out his 2oz Caldera. "Life is good!"

ODBox staff in Japan evaluating the Caldera System.

Takashi and Mr. Shiina brave the bears and visit Trail Designs Headquarters in Yosemite

Another order of Caldera Cones ready for shipment!

Hideaki Terasawa doing the JMT with his Caldera SP600 - somewhere near Tuolumne Meadows

Caldera Ti-Tri testing - seen here in wood burning mode

Will McCabe at the Vandeventer shelter in Tennessee on the AT, a couple days before Trail Days '07

Will McCabe upgrading his old design Caldera ConeTMat Trail Days '07

Rand and Lee working the booth at Trail Days '07. Thanks to Tom Clark for the picture!

Lee and Brawny doing the traditional Cone-Head dance at Trail Days '07

"...your cone and stove work great!!!!"
from Mike DeHart.... taken 5/6/07 at
Standing Indian Mountain on the AT.

SP600 Caldera system at Chilnualna Falls in Yosemite National Park.

"This is the JetBoil of the alky crowd!!!!" by Gail Lusk.... while using her Caldera System on the beaches of Maui.

Caldera System bringing an ice/water mix to boil in 23degree weather on 3/4 of an ounce of alcohol in the Colorado Rockies.

Kirk Lang in Wasilla Alaska, Feb. 2007 11:00 am.....20 degrees F....5 minute boil on 1.5tbs

Kirk Lang in Wasilla Alaska, Feb. 2007. 11:00 am.....20 degrees F....5 minute boil on 1.5tbs

Kirk Lang in Wasilla Alaska, Feb. 2007. 11:00 am.....20 degrees F....5 minute boil on 1.5tbs

Kirk Lang in Wasilla Alaska, Feb. 2007 11:00 am.....20 degrees F....5 minute boil on 1.5tbs

Kirk Lang in Wasilla Alaska, Feb. 2007. 11:00 am.....20 degrees F....5 minute boil on 1.5tbs

Wasilla AK. Feb. 2007, working the
Fur Rondy and Jr. Iditarod race.
7:00am, 10 degrees F, 10mph wind.

Wasilla AK. Feb. 2007, working the
Fur Rondy and Jr. Iditarod race.
7:00am, 10 degrees F, 10mph wind.

Wasilla AK. Feb. 2007, working the
Fur Rondy and Jr. Iditarod race.
7:00am, 10 degrees F, 10mph wind.

Sam Haraldson's Caldera and Trapper mug rig

TD hiking partner Logan captured this shot of the Caldera Keg at Gravel Pit Lake in Yosemite

Russ Zandbergen doing field tests of the Caldera Fissure on the JMT

Chris Townsend's Caldera Ti-Tri in use on a cold, damp morning in Glen Tromie in the Scottish Highlands after a night of rain and sleet. The temperature was around the freezing point