Quote Originally Posted by smilingcat View Post

As for backpacking stove, I used to have one of the original Primus stove using white gas. Once it got going it was great. Priming was PITA. Backpacking in the back country while beautiful was PITA. All that climbing, getting across alpine streams. If my back wasn't in such bad shape, I might consider it again. I LOVE the Alpine country.
I do some occasional backpacking. Not enough, need to do more. We have a couple MSR white gas stoves that are pretty nifty, but I only want to heat a bit of water for freeze dried meals and tea. That's all the cooking I want to do in camp

A couple of years ago I picked up an Esbit tablet stove, $10 at REI. The fuel tablets are just a few dollars. It all packs into my metal cup that I use to heat the water in, about the size of a quart nalgene bottle. Worked great on a 5 day trip into the Grand Canyon a couple of years ago.