I made my first backpacking stove in my college girlfriend's backyard with a hole punch and a can of Fancy Feast. After emptying the cat food in the trash (she didn't have a cat, and I was a dirtbag ...

•Mark Stambaugh boils down the basics of making three excellent alcohol stoves on his Web site, http://mark.stambaugh.name/ •Zen Stoves has a more exhaustive ...

I may have to knuckle under on this issue. Because of the geographic location where I’ve done 90 percent of my backpacking in the high, fairly windy mountains of the Pacific Northwest I’ve long been ...

They are? Maybe that’s an East Coast thing alcohol stoves would be a novelty out here on the West Coast. But I know they’re popular in Europe. As with most things, there are pros and cons to going ...

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Mark Stambaugh’s wife peeks into the garage, smiles, and says, “Nothing captures a boy’s attention like playing with fire.” Then she closes the door and leaves her husband to answer my burning desire ...