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Everyone says to get rid of my SVEA 123R stove.


Not me...I love my Sveas. I just don't hike with them anymore unless I'm melting snow, which is rare. Your original post was about pack weight savings. I suggested ditching your Svea for Esbit tablets(try it!), which is both lighter and more efficient than carrying alcohol. You won't have a stove or fuel bottle to haul, which will save you weight AND volume. You can light the stuff on a piece of tin foil, using tent stakes or rocks as pot supports. Based on your numbers, that will cut more than a pound off your pack weight which is substantial. Esbit will easily cook what you are describing.

I do use the Sveas for day hikes in cold weather, picnics, car camping, chili cookoffs, on the back porch for cookouts, but not for long distance multi-day hikes. I'd rather save my knees and back....time to make that pack lean and mean.

Part of this whole ultralight thing is wrapping your brain around breaking traditions and old knowledge. It's learning process to be embraced slowley.
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