Broke my favorite camp stove burner on a trip to Moab last spring, now I always carry a spare fuel line.

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Man that's the kind of lesson you only learn once the hard way. Last summer I snapped the pump rod on my old Coleman while trying to get it started in the dark, ended up eating cold beans straight from the can. Now I keep a whole backup stove in my truck, feels ridiculous till it's not.

ward.diana4d ago

You ever try packing a little alcohol stove as a backup? I picked up a Trangia clone for like 15 bucks a few years back, fits inside my cook pot. It's dead simple, no moving parts to break, just pour in some fuel and light it. Saved my ass twice already when my main stove acted up.

anthonyrivera4d ago

Cold beans in the dark hits different when you're miles from nowhere and every cricket sounds like it's laughing at you. I went the opposite way after a similar fail and now carry a tiny folding saw just in case I gotta make a fire the old school way. Coworkers joke about my "survival kit" but they're not the ones eating lukewarm Dinty Moore straight from the can at midnight.