Fully agree. There are cold-weather trips where I'd trust nothing else. (I recently wrote about a "busted" trip to Grayson Highlands. When I found out everyone else was taking a canister stove, I took my Simmerlite just so we'd have one white gas stove.)

However, most of my cold-weather trips are intentionally limited to a nearby park where, even though I can put together a trip of 30 miles if I want, I usually do only 10 miles (one night) or 15 miles (two nights), and I'm never further than 2 or 3 miles from a bail-out point. For those trips, I enjoy being able to push the limits of my canister stove - just for fun.