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There's nothing quite like a hot meal in the backcountry. What's better than dinner while watching the alpenglow on the peaks around you? The view is the only thing that makes that freeze-dried mush palatable.

If you want to cook, you need a stove, and you need one that won't weight you down, doesn't run afoul of fire bans, and can cook what you want to cook, whether that's boil-in-a-bag meals or fresh trout. To help you figure out the best backpacking stove for every adventure, we've boiled water in the wind, sautéed trout on the Bois Brule, dined on countless freeze-dried meals, and drunk the m

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