I found out this year that my wife will not do a bivy/tarp trip again
so we went back to our Squall. We did switch over to a gram cracker esbit stove and coupled it with a caldera cone and a SUL 1100 pot and it worked great. In the Winds this summer we averaged less than 2 tabs per meal. We also went to Ether Thermo
6 pads and won't go to anything that is not at least that comfortable. Our base weights are at around 12# and we are happy
with the balance between weight and comfort (on the sunset side of 55) which is becoming very important.