Originally Posted By Aragon
I'm curious if many of you go on overnighters where you leave the stoves and thermoses at home?


Here in the Ozarks you can make a small fire with twigs to cook with so you don't really need a stove or fuel and there are places and times when you can do this out west too.

A few tea bags, or even hot cocoa mix, doesn't weigh much at all and water you get and use somewhere close to camp doesn't weigh anything on the trail. And if water is plentiful where you'll camp you don't have to carry as much while on the trail to get there, so adding a bit of food to your pack that you can prepare with just hot water can still be pretty light.

In fact, it can be lighter. Oatmeal made with Nido and freeze dried fruit is pretty darn light, and tasty too. So are some of those dehydrated meals.

I'd not take hot food out of the mix in the quest to go lighter. I'd look into how it could help with that.
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