Windproof/Stormproof Lighters

[Sean VHA #60013]

Correction-$28 at Overstock. And they have one less to sell y'all. Not as cool as the yellow but for half the price, same lighter.

Thanks for the info re: Overtock's pricing - I just ordered two of them :coffeedrink:

I am going to Arizona in January & am going to be in Phoenix & Flagstaff, and this lighter looks like a good companion for the trails at McDowell Mountain in Phoenix & the ski slopes in Flagstaff.

 

[ScottReb]

Isn't it great we have forums like this so we can find the best prices on things we could totally live without...sorry I think my wife got ahold the computer.

 

[wild1]

lighters

Went over the top of my waders at 2 degrees F. this weekend duck hunting and nearly chucked my high priced Windmill Delta when I could not get a piece of toilet paper soaked in firestarter going. Lucky that I had stashed a couple of boxes of storm matches in my possibles kit, they made short work of building a blaze. I think I will save my fancy lighter for cigars.

 

[targa88]

I have the original Colibri Extreme (CX-10).
Works fine. Tough to ignite at altitude sometimes.
Even has a compass...

 

[JosJoseph]

Depends on your use. I have a couple of different versions of the higher end ones. However, as cool as they look, I always carry a $1 bic as a back-up. And if I am in the mountains.... a bic is all I will trust and carry. And most of my trips are spent at higher elevations.... So that is really all I carry....

I have heard some have had good luck with good old fashioned Zippo's at higher elevation. But, I just have experience with using windproof plasma lighters.

Good luck.

I also have a plasma lighter that is safer and more environmentally friendly than a propane lighter. Especially the double arc lighter, its firepower is more powerful than the single arc lighter. After charging once, its battery lasts for two weeks and is very economical.

 

[robert]

Zombie thread! Not even sure where my fancy lighters are these days. Bic in a baggie, stormproof matches in a plastic case and a fire steel. I toss an old propane torch that screws onto the 1# cylinders in the back if I'm taking charcoal.

 

[dcg141]

I have one of these as well as the grill lighter and like them both. Power Practical