Cheery cooking on a ultralight tent stove with lots of waste heat for the cook.

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Ultralight tent stove overview This ultralight tent stove overview summarises my posts on my many tent stove innovations as they have failed, morphed and improved as I have learned to make a better stove. It is a brief outline of a complex and non-linear journey. Background to the tent stoveRead More →

Assembled ultralight tent stove setup on a bush pole.

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Ultralight Tent Stove- Part 4 Getting the Best out of the stove This post is the last in a four-part series on my efforts to design a truly ultralight tent stove. My aim was to efficiently and cleanly provide cooking and warmth from a small number of bush sticks toRead More →

Ultralight tent stove on a bush pole above the snow.

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Ultralight Tent Stove-for Alpine Camping Part 3 Safe and effective use This post is the third in a four-part series on my efforts to design a truly ultralight tent stove. My aim was to efficiently and cleanly provide cooking and warmth from a small number of bush sticks to enhanceRead More →

An ultralight alpine woodshed for keeping a little 'stach' of dry fuel sticks for your next visit.. It is sewn Tyvek with zip down one side

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Ultralight backpacking woodshed for stashing dry fuel This post describes an ultralight backpacking woodshed sewn from Tyvek to store and manage dry fuel sticks for snow camping. Introduction to an ultralight backpacking woodshed If you are like me you probably enjoy your alpine areas smothered with snow for skiing, butRead More →

Whisky top burner with riser (~9 g), with small clean concentrated flame.

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Backup alcohol burner A ~9g ‘whisky top’ backup alcohol burner is described. It can be used as an alternative ultralight way of cooking, on wood-burning stoves, when it must be used inside a tent in bad weather. Introduction This article is about a compact backup alcohol burners to use in myRead More →