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Bushwhacker Wood-Gas Stove Raffle
I'm raffling off a mint Bushwhacker Wood-Gas Stove this month, made by J. Falk at Trailgear.org. The stove weighs 6.7 oz and retails for 28.50 USD. If you're not familiar with wood gas stoves, Jason Klass has done a nice gear review of the...
Alcohol Stoves: Timing Your Boil
Long-distance AT hikers love to obsess over pack weight and gear choices. Eventually any extended or thru-hike planning effort will come to a decision on what stove to bring. For me, this was quickly remedied by the statistics on what kind of stove s...
Vargo Titanium Triad XE Alcohol/Esbit Stove
Last weekend I brought a Vargo Titanium Triad XE alcohol stove on my 3-day Zeta Pass to Mt Washington backpacking trip on the AT. It was the first time that I’d used an alcohol stove in about a year. Before that I had been a big fan of ultralit...
Evernew Titanium Pot 1.3L
I bought a new Evernew Titanium Pot (1.3L) this winter that is a little larger than the Snow Peak Titanium 700 that I normally use for 3 season hiking, at least when I bother to bring a stove. I bought it for purposes of melting snow for winter hiki...
MSR Simmerlite White Gas Stove
This past weekend I got to field test my new MSR Simmerlite liquid fuel stove on a winter backpacking trip in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. MSR makes many different models of liquid fuel stoves and I picked this one because it is the lightest...
Wood Gas Stoves: Second Thoughts
I’ve had my eye on wood gas stoves for a while because I Iike the idea of having a stove where you don’t have to carry fuel. If you’re going to be out for 4 or 5 days the amount of denatured alcohol or isobutane canister fuel y...
