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Feb 3, 2015

"To lighten your load and reduce your environmental impact, it’s time to make the switch from a petroleum-based stove to a model that runs directly off of biomass. "
Really? I hope no one believes that. A gas can sufficient for a week's worth of individual cooking weighs less than a pound. Cooking with wood can also be very destructive to campsites, especially in popular areas.
Wood-burning camp stoves are appropriate in some cases, but the reasoning presented here is bad.

PeterWheeler

Feb 3, 2015

wyagerwyager - these types of stoves aren't destructive and use very little wood. They are designed to burn small twigs (about the size of your finger), pine cones and other detritus that can easily be picked up along your hike, without having to cut large logs. With this stove, you are not digging a large fire ring, building a campfire and then having to try to replace that which was moved. Their footprint is very small (about the size of a quart of paint) and, because of the way that it burns, the wood that is used is reduced to very fine ash, which is easily disposed of, once it has cooled. If you have any concern at all regarding the impact on the camp site, you need only place the stove on a flat stone (or you can carry a tile or square of metal - even a piece of aluminum foil will work), and the physical impact on the site will be reduced to about zero. Do a Google search on "TLUD stove" and/or "Woodgas stove" to learn more about how these stoves work. They are a lot more LNT than your post is implying.

Scotty84

Aug 26, 2018

PeterWheelerThe bottom of my solo stove lite remains more or less cool in use, the sides get hot so getting a hand under is another story but you are not going to damage anything underneath. I love mine. Wish they would organise a drop for the suluk titanium version...

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