I'm reading "A Snow Walkers Companion" a book about Canadian camping with canvas tents with wood stoves. This is a very long quote so I will paraphrase it.

"Stoveless campers have only metabolic heat from food and mechanical heat from muscles to keep them warm, thus they have to carry a lot of heavy food. Campers who spend 6 to 10 hours a day in a heated tent need less food, thus they have to carry "drag" less weight."

What she means is that if you have a forty pound tent and stove and chop wood, you save food weight and thus have a lighter load. Is this twisted logic?

Is this any smarter than saving weight by not carrying more down?
Jim